Specialty Chemical Companies Clariant and Huntsman to Merge

Arysta LifeScience North America names Chad Effertz as the Head of Research and Development (R&D), and Sam Thornton as the Business Manager, Seed Treatments.

Syngenta reported its first-quarter group sales of $3.7 billion were 1% lower from a year ago, hurt by lower pricing, a cold weather in Northern and Central Europe, and reduced demand for fungicides and herbicides in Brazil and Paraguay.

EU is poised to renew glyphosate’s authorization for another 15 years, after a key committee backs research supporting the active ingredient’s safety.

Rhyme fungicide from FMC, registered for a wide range of specialty crops throughout the U.S., received approval from the California…

China National Chemical Corp. plans to redistribute agrochemical assets to its Adama unit after the $43 billion takeover of Syngenta…

ChemChina and Syngenta announced that they have received approval from the Comisión Federal de Competencia Económica in Mexico (COFECE) for…

In preparation for the Biocontrols Africa Conference & Expo 2017, 12-13 July in Cape Town, AgriBusiness Global visited numerous key players in…

Belchim Crop Protection, based in Londerzeel, Belgium, is expanding its agrochemical business in Germany by purchasing a 100 % shareholding…

American Vanguard Corp., through its principal operating subsidiary, AMVAC Chemical Corp., has announced the signing of an agreement to acquire certain U.S. assets relating to the three crop protection product lines — abamectin, chlorothalonil and paraquat — from subsidiaries of Adama Agricultural Solutions Ltd.