Syngenta Inks Deals with Arysta Canada, Makteshim

Posted by Matt Hopkins|19 November 2009

GUELPH, Ontario, Canada — Arysta LifeScience Canada will license its flucarbazone herbicide chemistry to Syngenta Crop Protection Canada.

Flucarbazone is the active ingredient in EVEREST herbicide. Syngenta will market the chemistry with the launch of both Sierra and Pace.

“We believe the decision to provide flucarbazone to Syngenta will broaden the reach of this important technology in Canada,” Arysta LifeScience Canada head Hugh MacGillivray said in a prepared statement. “Flucarbazone-based herbicides offer wheat growers Flush after flush weed control as well as control of Group 1 resistant weeds.”

Under this agreement, Syngenta Crop Protection will license Clodinafop 60EC, the formulation in Syngenta Horizon NG herbicide, to be marketed by Arysta LifeScience as NextStep NG. This agreement will allow Arysta LifeScience to continue to develop unique chemistries and to further enhance its crop protection portfolio.

In another deal, the Basel, Switzerland-based Syngenta signed will supply Makhteshim-Agan of Israel with the fungicide azoxystrobin. Terms weren’t disclosed. Makhteshim-Agan plans to develop and commercialize its own products based on the fungicide mixed with products from its current fungicide portfolio, Syngenta said in a statement on Thursday.