Arysta LifeScience licenses herbicide to Syngenta Crop Protection

Date:11-18-2009

Arysta LifeScience Canada, Inc., has announced an agreement with Syngenta Crop Protection Canada, Inc., to license the Arysta LifeScience Flucarbazone herbicide chemistry to Syngenta Crop Protection.

Flucarbazone is the high performance 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," says Hugh MacGillivray, head of Arysta LifeScience Canada Inc. "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.