AMVAC and TryaTech Team Up; Granted First Extend Patent in South Africa

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AMVAC Chemical Corp. and TyraTech, Inc. have announced their new joint venture, Envance. According to the companies, Envance will develop and commercialize a range of pest control solutions for global consumer, commercial and agriculture pest control markets.

Eric Wintemute, chairman and CEO of AMVAC’s parent company, American Vanguard Corporation, said: “This exciting joint venture opens up a new growth path for AMVAC Chemical in both consumer and commercial pest control. Additionally, we expect to develop innovative solutions leveraging TyraTech’s Extend technology platform to create novel, synergistic combinations of natural active ingredients with proven synthetic compounds for comprehensive agricultural insect control.”

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Part of the growth Wintemute alludes to was achieved this week. The companies received a 20-year patent on Extend in South Africa.

Extend is a crop protection product developed by Envance that has synthetic compounds with improved efficacy and environmental impacts. Extend can be used on a wide range of crops.

Bruno Jactel, Tyratech’s chief executive, said: “These patents are important to demonstrate the synergy between our blends and synthetic compounds and that we are uniquely able to improve the efficacy while reducing the environmental footprint of synthetic pesticides. This will support both the strategy of Envance Technologies, our joint venture with AMVAC Chemical Corp.”

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Jactel, who took over as CEO of Envance last month, has been charged with the acceleration of the commercialization of the company’s products.

 

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