Arysta LifeScience Opens Fungicide Formulation Plant in Vietnam
22 May 2012 Arysta LifeScience Vietnam opened a new suspension concentrate (SC) formulation plant in Song Than II Industrial Zone, Binh Duong province, Vietnam.
The facility will produce KASAI-S 92SC, a fungicide to be launched later this year. KASAI-S is a mixture of kasugamycin and tricyclazole that has proven effective for control of rice blast disease. It will be the first “blasticide” in SC formulation available to growers in Vietnam.
“Suspended concentration formulations are non-powdery, with uniform particle size and are produced with reduced or no use of hazardous solvents,” said Tran Quoc Dan, Arysta LifeScience factory manager in a statement. “That makes them one of the most stable and safest formulations for farmers and the environment. With an excellent safety profile, KASAI-S offers rice farmers a total solution by controlling rice blast while also preventing bacteria leaf disease, which is becoming more common in rice in recent years.”
The new SC formulation plant is the first SC formulation plant in Southeast Asia and was established with technical assistance from Hokko Chemical Industry Co., Ltd., a company with more than 40 years of experience in SC formulation technology.
Source: Arysta LifeScience, edited by Stefanie A. Toth, Online Editor
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