Bayer CropScience Launches Seed Technology Facility
14 November 2011 MARBACH AM NECKAR, Germany – A Bayer CropScience subsidiary has launched an enlarged seed technology facility for vegetable and herb seeds.
Bayer CropScience subsidiary HILD samen GmbH opened enlarged seed technology facilities at its site in Marbach am Neckar, Germany, a $5.5-million investment. For the new building, HILD acquired the 4,700 square meters area of land located next to its existing site in late 2009.
“Bayer CropScience is making this investment to develop new solutions that will help producers boost their yields and increase their productivity, with appropriate plant traits that meet consumers’ quality requirements,” explained Douwe Zijp, CEO of Nunhems, the vegetable seed business of Bayer CropScience in a company statement.
The company plans to process and store various types of vegetable and herb seeds at the site in the future.
HILD’s Marbach site, where its team of 75 employees breeds and processes new varieties of radish, herbs such as chives, parsley, basil, dill, and other crops, now covers an area of more than 17 hectares, according to the company.
“The vegetable seed business is of outstanding importance for Bayer CropScience. Our objective is to exploit this good technological position in order to achieve stronger growth in this segment in the future,” Achim Noack, member of the Bayer CropScience Board of Management responsible for Product Supply, said in the statement.
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