Tricyclazole technical's supply in China a bit tight recently

According to Fungicides China News issued by CCM in July, the domestic supply of tricyclazole technical, one of the conventional triazole fungicides, is a bit tight recently mainly due to the under-capacity operation among major manufacturers in China, such as Hangzhou Southern Suburb Chemical Co., Ltd. (Southern Suburb Chemical) and Jiangsu Fengdeng Pesticide Co., Ltd. (Fengdeng Pesticide).

 

In detail, Southern Suburb Chemical, the largest manufacturer of tricyclazole technical in China, is conducting related inspection and maintenance for its production equipment with the arrival of the high temperature season, including tricyclazole technical production lines, to ensure its safe production in the future. This directly reduced the company's production of tricyclazole technical. Moreover, some foreign orders of tricyclazole products were scheduled by the company in priority order. 

 

As a leading company in the domestic tricyclazole technical industry, Southern Suburb Chemical has been ranking first place in both capacity and output of this fungicide in recent years. In detail, the company's capacity of tricyclazole technical maintained at 4,000t/a in the recent three years. Moreover, its output of the product reached about 1,600 tonnes in 2011, far exceeding that of other domestic companies. It is conceivable that the under-capacity operation of Southern Suburb Chemical has already brought a major negative impact on the domestic supply/demand of tricyclazole technical.

 

Moreover, Fengdeng Pesticide's normal production of tricyclazole technical was seriously affected mainly due to some problems in relation to the environmental protection and the land requisition. Under the circumstances, the company's production of this fungicide was intermittent, making it difficult to ensure product orders especially from domestic pesticide formulation manufacturers.

 

It is well known that Fengdeng Pesticide is mainly engaged in the production and sales of triazole fungicides in China, and its capacity of tricyclazole technical reaches around 1,000t/a in 2013, ranking into the top three in China. The output its tricyclazole technical, one of the company's major products, hit about 500 tonnes in 2011, which brought it handsome profits. However, Fengdeng Pesticide confronted a dilemma caused by the environmental protection problem with the strict environmental protection policies from the local government and the increasing environmental protection consciousness of people.

 

With the tight supply of tricyclazole technical in the domestic market, its ex-factory price witnessed a rise to a certain extent in the recent few months of 2013. Specifically, the ex-factory price of tricyclazole 95% TC climbed to about USD9,563/t in June 2013, up 2.54% and 4.43% respectively compared with those in May and Jan. 2013. It is estimated that the tight supply of tricyclazole technical will be alleviated with the ending of the export peak of fungicides and the ex-factory price of this triazole fungicide will see a slight fall back in the near future.

Table of Contents of Fungicides China News 1307:

Tricyclazole technical's supply in China a bit tight recently

Trichoderma SP: market promotion makes great achievement

Qianjiang Biochemical to receive USD16.06 million as relocation compensation in 2013

Changqing Agrochemical plans to construct 1,000t/a 2-coumaranone production line

Huihuang Chemical to build 4,000t/a tebuconazole technical production line

Hubei Yizailing's production license for 100t/a prohexadione calcium technical approved

Analysis on biological pesticide export in China in 2012

Fluazinam technical export down in 2012

Registrations of azoxystrobin mixtures significantly increase in China in H1 2013

Overview of fungicide registration in China in H1 2013

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Pyraclostrobin market to be promising in China

The pyraclostrobin, a strobilurin fungicide developed by BASF in 1993 and entered the market in 2001, has been widely used in the fields of wheat, rice, grape, banana, orange, vegetables, etc. to control powdery mildew, anthracnose, scab, leaf spot and so on. Thanks to the pyraclostrobin's good performance in the global market, and especially in the US and Brazil, the pyraclostrobin has brought a fat profit to BASF and it has grown to be the second largest fungicide in the world as reported. Like other strobilurin fungicides such as the azoxystrobin, the pyraclostrobin has advantages like a low dosage, broad spectrum, high efficacy, low toxicity and others yet to be found. What's more, it can also prevent and cure diseases caused by germs resistant to other fungicides. In the past few years, the pyraclostrobin has been registered in many countries and regions in the world, including Brazil, Canada, Australia, Argentina, the US, etc, according to CCM’s latest monthly report, Fungicides China News 1304.

In China, according to the Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals, Ministry of Agriculture (ICAMA), as of 12 March 2013, pyraclostrobin technical and formulations have been registered by BASF only due to their patent protection. The active ingredient (AI) content of the pyraclostrobin technical is 95% and the specification for pyraclostrobin single formulation is 250g/L EC. Moreover, the registrations of pyraclostrobin combined with metiram and dimethomorph have also been acquired by BASF with the registration codes PD20080506 and PD20093402 respectively.

In addition, China has been actively applying for pyraclostrobin's field efficacy tests in recent years, in a bid to formally register this product when its patent in China expires in June 2015.

According to the ICAMA, China began pyraclostrobin's field efficacy tests as early as 2009. And it became popular in 2012, with their number soaring to 47 from 6 in 2011. Currently, the total number of those tests in China hits 62, including 37 for single formulations and 25 for mixed formulations. As to mixed formulations, pyraclostrobin combined with propineb, dithianon and dimethomorph are popular, accounting for 36% of the total field efficacy tests. Furthermore, the main specifications for pyraclostrobin's single formulations are 25% WDG, 25% SC and 30% SC.

In field efficacy tests, pyraclostrobin is used to prevent and cure the cucumber downy mildew, banana scab, apple leaf spot, rice sheath blight, grape downy mildew, wheat rust, etc. Cucumber, banana and apple are the top 3 crops tested with the pyraclostrobin, taking up 21%, 16% and 15% of the total amount of tests respectively. It is also worth noticing that fruits and vegetables account for around 60% of the total crops tested, while the figure is only 15% for field crops (rice and wheat). It indicates that there is a huge room for pyraclostrobin's application on field crops in China's market.

In China, more and more companies have been participating in the pyraclostrobin's field efficacy tests in recent years. According to the ICAMA, 37 domestic companies have applied for them as of 12 March 2013. Among the companies, Shaanxi Sunger Road Bio-Science Co., Ltd. (Shaanxi Sunger Road) applied for 5 pieces, ranking first, followed by Hailir Pesticides & Chemicals Group, Jiangxi Yingtan Shuangshou Pesticide Co., Ltd. and Shenzhen Noposion Agrochemicals Co., Ltd.

In the future, especially in 2013 and 2014, the pyraclostrobin's field efficacy tests will continue to be popular in China. The total number is expected to increase greatly along with the number of applicants soaring and the type of mixed formulations diversified. The companies that have applied for field efficacy tests are likely to register pyraclostrobin in the domestic market.

Driven by pyraclostrobin's promising profit, coupled with its good performance, it is expected that domestic agrochemical companies will come in flocks after the product's patent expiration in China in 2015, challenging BASF in the Chinese and global market.

Table Contents of Fungicides China News 1304:

Pyraclostrobin market to be promising in China

17 labs approved for the comprehensive component analysis of the pesticide TC/TK registration

2012 review of Chinese triazole fungicides' supply & demand

Noposion to invest in Changlong Chemicals

Zibo Wanchang's sales revenue up 15.82% in 2012

The registration of cyproconazole to be popular in China

Udragon Chemical: China's first company to acquire formal registration of tetraconazole formulation

Export volume of China's azoxystrobin technical and formulations soar in 2012

Expected large stricken area of rape sclerotinia rot to increase demand for some fungicides

Ex-works price of prochloraz 97% technical soars in early March

Sinon Corporation invests in pesticide intermediate project in China

Domestic fungicide technical output continues to decline

Sipcam registers an azoxystrobin formulation in China

BASF promotes Emulan in China

MOA to increase the rice yield

China's first development plan for the flower industry issued

Chinese scientists map out the D genome of wheat

Domestic enterprises gain 23 new registrations of pesticide AIs in 2012

CNDCA recommends a ban on the import of GM seeds for staple food

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Ex-factory price of azoxystrobin technical rallies

Domestic ex-factory price of azoxystrobin technical has begun to rally since late Dec. 2012 as the demand for this fungicide increased mainly from overseas market and the stocks of some leading domestic manufacturers got low. And these main factors stimulating price rise of azoxystrobin technical still exist, indicating that the product's price may continue going up to a certain extent in the next few months of this year, according to Fungicides China News issued by CCM I in February.

Specifically, in late Dec. 2012, the ex-factory price of azoxystrobin 95% TC increased by 5.33% to about USD37,672/t (RMB237,000/t) compared with that in early Dec. 2012. It was not until 8 Jan., 2013 that a majority of domestic manufacturers raised their quoted prices, climbing to around USD38,692/t (RMB243,000/t), up 8.18% over early Dec. 2012. Moreover, this uptrend still prevails in the rest weeks of Jan. 2013. Moreover, it surged to USD39,804/t (RMB248,000/t) in early Feb. 2013.

As a matter of fact, the ex-factory price of azoxystrobin technical plummeted in China in 2010 and 2011 with the capacity expansion. Moreover, it still didn't manage to get rid of the decline trend in 2012.

In detail, the price fall range of azoxystrobin technical was bigger in the first four months of 2012. The ex-factory price of azoxystrobin 95% TC dropped to USD40,915/t (RMB258,000/t) in early April 2012, down 23.06% in comparison with that in early Jan. 2012.

From May to Sept. 2012, the price decline range of azoxystrobin 95% TC was smaller, only 6.74%. And in Q4 2012, the ex-factory price of this fungicide decreased to a relatively low level over the previous three quarters of last year. It is particularly worth noting that the ex-factory price of azoxystrobin 95% TC firstly fell below USD50,000/t (RMB318,471/t) in March 2012, hitting about USD45,904/t (RMB290,000/t), down 13.67% over early Jan. 2012. And it was not until July 2012 that its ex-factory price once again fell below USD40,000/t (RMB254,627/t) to about USD39,273/t (RMB250,000/t).

Thereafter, the ex-factory price of azoxystrobin 95% TC sank all the way and broke below the previous month's low in early Dec. 2012, less than USD36,000/t (RMB226,478/t), slipping to USD35,765/t (RMB225,000/t).

The increasing capacity resulted from more and more domestic agrochemcial companies' launch of their azoxystrobin technical production is the most important factor dragging down the ex-factory price of the product in the past three years. Furthermore, the rapid capacity expansion caused confusion in the market of azoxystobin technical, among which price disorder and malign competition were relatively serious problems.

It is well known that azoxystobin is the most popular fungicide in the world with an annual sales value of over USD1.0 billion at present, which attracted close attention of a large number of domestic agrochemical companies in the past few years. Coupled with the expired patent of the product in 2010, China's capacity of azoxystrobin technical witnessed a jump in 2011, amounting to about 1,500t/a.

Stepping into 2012, domestic companies' enthusiasm for azoxystrobin is not diminished but more inspired. This can be seen from the registration situation of azoxystrobin in China. According to the Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals, Ministry of Agriculture (ICAMA), the new registration quantity of azoxystrobin in 2012 amounted to 37 (not including repacking registration), including 22 for technical and 15 for formulations.

However, a majority of domestic manufacturers have had to reasonably plan production since H2 2012 due to the gloomy demand for azoxystrobin from overseas market and slimmer profit margin. As a result, they have tried to keep stock level low during the past few months, which can make the price right itself little by little.

Coupled with the coming of fungicide export peak season, most of azoxystrobin manufacturers in China have raised their quotations recently. Under the circumstances, the ex-factory price of azoxystrobin 95% TC witnessed a sound soar in the meantime. It is estimated that the ex-factory price of this fungicide will continue going up in the first half of 2013 with the demand push, but its rise range will not be very big due to the intense competition inside this industry.

Table contents of Fungicides China News 1302:

Ex-factory price of azoxystrobin technical rallies

2011-2012 field efficacy tests for 11 new fungicide AIs launched

Epoxiconazole to greatly push up Huifeng Agrochemical's 2013 performance

First batch of merged agrochemical companies released in China in 2013

Qingdao Hailir applying for first domestic registration of cyazofamid

Sinochem Agro launches new fungicide product: flumorph•pyraoxystrobin 25% SC

Chinese fungicides Imp. & Exp. analysis in 2012

Export volume of chlorothalonil technical drops in the first ten months of 2012

Langtai Biotech successfully develops formula of azoxystrobin 80% WG

Zibo Wanchang obtains two patents on azoxystrobin preparation method

Dimethomorph registration soars in China in 2012

New fungicide formulation registrations in 2012

Price update in Feb. 2013

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Enterprises Appeal for Policy Support for Pesticide Formulation Export

On 7 June, 2012, the 18th Conference of the 5th Council of China Crop Protection Industry Association was successfully held in Nanchang City of Jiangxi Province, participated by nearly 200 experts from pesticide R&D, production and management departments. A large number of domestic enterprises appealed for policy support for pesticide formulation export at the meeting, according to CCM International’s July issue of Fungicides China News.

It is well known that China is one of the big countries of pesticide production with over 260 technical and 3,000 formulations. Data from the National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBS) show that the total output of pesticides has reached about 2.65 million tonnes in China in 2011.

 

Besides, China is also one of the biggest pesticide export countries all over the world. For instance, China exported pesticides to over 180 foreign countries and regions, reaching the highest level in history in 2011; the total export volume witnessed a sound growth last year, hitting around 1.41 million tonnes, up 15.65% compared with that in 2010. 

Before 2011, Chinese export volume of pesticide technical has been larger than that of pesticide formulations. As hoped, this situation eventually changed in the previous year. In detail, China's export volume of pesticide formulations in 2011 was about 0.75 million tonnes, up 26.66% year on year, while that of pesticide technical was about 0.66 million tonnes, only up 5.10% year on year.

 

As formulations exceed technical by export volume, Chinese pesticide industry will play an increasingly important role worldwide. However, some related policies are no good for the development of domestic pesticide formulation industry, which negatively impacts the adjustment of pesticide industrial structure to a certain extent.

 

Specifically, Chinese export tax rebate rate of pesticide technical is usually 9%, while that of pesticide formulations is only 5%. As a result, this topsy-turvy phenomenon of export tax rebate rate can hardly raise the enthusiasm of pesticide enterprises to extend their industrial chain with higher additional value products–pesticide formulations. 

Under the circumstances, most enterprises prefer to export pesticide technical in consideration of the higher export tax rebate rate. However, these domestic enterprises that produce pesticide technical still act as "outsources" in the chain of international pesticide trade. Meanwhile, the pollution caused by producing pesticide technical in significant quantities is very serious in China, which goes against environmental protection to a great extent.

 

To better promote the adjustment of China's pesticide industrial structure and thus facilitate its own brand products to enter into international terminal market, domestic enterprises hope that relevant state departments give policy support to domestic pesticide formulation export–increasing the export tax rebate of pesticide formulations and change the topsy-turvy phenomenon between pesticide technical and formulations. 

Although the export tax rebate policy is important, enterprises should not focus on policy support. On the contrary, they ought to constantly strengthen product innovation to firmly occupy international market. Only in this way can China be a more powerful country in global pesticide industry in the future. 

Source: Fungicides China News 1207

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Main content of Fungicides China News 1207:

Acquisition promotes Huifeng Agrochemcial's performance in Q1 2012

Anhui Huilong successfully acquires 60% share of HAMP 

Sichuan Guoguang's application for IPO at initial audit stage 

Lier Chemical: H1 performance to exceed forecast  

Epoxiconazole wins approval of more and more rice growers in China 

Bismerthiazol greets a favorable return

Traditional pesticide sales system may be subverted in Hunan

Yancheng Limin's relocation projects start trial production

Weier Chemical to build 200t/a fluazinam production line

SCCESCUT successfully develops methane dithiocyanate 10% SC

Rice diseases and insect pests spreading rapidly

… …

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Lanfeng Biochemical Continues to Perform Well in Q1 2012

Jiangsu Lanfeng Biochemical Co., Ltd. (Lanfeng Biochemical), one of the leading carbendazim producers in China, which has achieved a sound performance in 2011, continued to perform well in the first quarter of 2012, which is beneficial to enhance its integral competitiveness and enterprise image to a great extent, according to CCM International’s June issue of Fungicides China News.

 

In detail, both the total revenue and net profit of Lanfeng Biochemical witnessed increase in Q1 2012, reaching USD48.25 million (RMB304.44 million) and USD4.13 million (RMB26.09 million) respectively, up 20.50% and 16.86% over the same period of last year.

 

According to Lanfeng Biochemical's Q1 2012 financial report, its good performance is primarily attributed to the rise in sales of pesticides and intermediates, two major businesses of the company. Furthermore, Lanfeng Biochemical increased its supply with the expansion of some products both in variety and capacity during the course of its relocation, which greatly promoted the company's sales of main businesses. 

Take carbendazim for example, Lanfeng Biochemical's sales volume of this fungicide has considerably soared up in the first three months of 2012, and statistics from China Crop Protection Industry Association (CCPIA) show that domestic sales volume of the company's carbendazim technical has exceeded 1,000 tonnes only in Feb. this year.

 

Owing to the large quantity of demand for carbendazim from both at home and abroad as well as good product quality, Lanfeng Biochemical's capacity and output of carbendazim technical have been rising to a great extent in recent years.

 

According to CCPIA, the capacity and output of Lanfeng Biochemcial have hit 15,000t/a and 14,677 tonnes respectively in 2011, increasing by 9,000t/a and 10,069 tonnes over 2008. So far, Lanfeng Biochemical is the second largest manufacturer of carbendazim technical in China, just next to Anhui Guangxin Agrochemical Co., Ltd.

 

Lanfeng Biochemical expanded not only its fungicide production but also insecticides and herbicides. For instance, the company's capacity of acephate technical (an organophosphate insecticide) has been expanded to 8,000t/a in Feb. 2012 from the original 2,000t/a. 

It is worth noting that Lanfeng Biochemical has realized the importance of strengthening the development in domestic market due to the outbreak of financial crisis and the European debt crisis. Therefore, the company has been making great efforts to heighten its product marketing and brand promotion in China in recent years on the basis of cementing its overseas business.

 

"Our company brought out some new products and further widened domestic terminal market through the implementation of detailed promotion measures in early 2012," said Mr. Liang, General Manager of Lanfeng Biochemical.

 

In the next few months of this year, Lanfeng Biochemical plans to increase investment in domestic market, optimize the structure of its sales regions, and strive to achieve a considerable breakthrough–seizing more market share of pesticides to continue to enhance its overall performance to a great extent. 

Source: Fungicides China News 1206

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Main content of Fungicides China News 1206:

Lanfeng Biochemical continues to perform well in Q1 2012

Lier Chemical's net profit sharply slides in Q1 2012

Changqing Agrochemical's Q1 2012 profit up 17.39% year on year

ABA Chemicals to establish joint venture

China's output of fungicide technical down 16.2% year on year in Q1 2012

Mancozeb technical experiences flourishing production and sales in Q1 2012

Registrations of kresoxim-methyl hot in early 2012

China intends to solve vegetable pesticide problem through joint tests

Administrative Regulations on EHS of Chinese Pesticide Industry to be issued soon

… …

(Guangzhou China, June 11, 2012)

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China's Import Volume of Pesticides Increases in Q1 2012

China imported 16,000 tonnes of pesticides in the first quarter of 2012, up 8.1% over the same period of 2011. Meanwhile, the total import value of pesticides reached USD110 million, increasing by 22.1% year on year; the average price of imported pesticides was USD6,896/t in Q1 2012, according to the General Administration of Customs of the People's Republic of China (GAS), according to CCM’s May Issue of Fungicides China News.

Specifically, China's import volume of herbicides was the largest among all pesticides in Q1 2012, hitting 8,743 tonnes, accounting for 54.64% of the total volume of imported pesticides. Moreover, the YOY growth rate of herbicides' import volume in Q1 this year was 36.2%, much higher than those of other pesticide categories.

 

Meanwhile, the import volume of insecticides, the third largest imported pesticide category, increased by 16.5% year on year to 2,499 tonnes, and the average price of imported insecticides hit USD9,825/t. 

China's import volume of fungicides ranked the second among all pesticide categories in Q1 2012, reaching 3,439 tonnes; the average price of imported fungicides was USD7,996/t, higher than that of other imported pesticides. However, the YOY growth rate of fungicides' import volume witnessed a slip of 5.0%.

 

In detail, Shanghai and Beijing are the top two cities by import volume of fungicides in the first quarter of this year, reaching 887 tonnes and 603 tonnes respectively. It is worth noting that these two cities' import volume of fungicides took up 43.3% of the total import volume of fungicides at the same time.

 

In terms of import origin, Germany, the US and France are the top three countries that exported fungicides to China, with export volumes of 679 tonnes, 587 tonnes and 399 tonnes respectively in Q1 2012. It is not hard to see from these figures mentioned above that fungicides' export volume of these three countries accounted for 48.4% of China's total import volume of fungicides in Q1 this year.

 

Besides, the average prices of imported fungicides from Germany, the US and France were USD6,423/t, USD7,477/t and USD9,815/t separately in the first quarter of 2012. Thereinto, the average price of fungicides from France was the highest among the three, USD1,819/t higher than that of imported fungicides from all import origins.

 

Fungicides with high efficiency, broad spectrum and low toxicity are still main import varieties by China in Q1 2012, such as tebuconazole, difenoconazole, azoxystrobin, pyraclostrobin, trifloxystrobin and propiconazole. 

It can be estimated that China's import volume of pesticides from overseas market will continue to go up in the second quarter of 2012 with the coming of pesticides' peak consumption season. Meanwhile, pesticide industry's competition will be more and more intense in China in the near future because a large number of imported pesticides are entering domestic market.

Source: Fungicides China News 1205

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Main content of Fungicides China News 1205:

Qianjiang Biochemical's net profit sharply drops in 2011

Noposion: net profit slides but fungicide revenue increases in 2011

Huifeng Agrochemical's net profit continues decrease in 2011

SYRICI successfully develops pyrametostrobin•thiram 25% SC

Xi'an MPC vigorously promotes cuppric nonyl phenolsulfonate

China's import volume of pesticides increases in Q1 2012

Domestic output of carbendazim technical exceeds 14,000 tonnes in Q1 2012

New policy beneficial to development of kasugamycin

Changqing Agrochemical successfully launches 500t/a fenoxanil technical production line

Azoxystrobin•prochloraz 30% ME to enjoy bright market prospect

Key crop diseases predicted to occur on large scale in Guangxi in H1 2012

Diseases and insect pests to seriously occur in middle and later stage of wheat

Azoxystrobin registrations keep hot in 2012

Registrations of tebuconazole formulation go hot in early 2012

Ex-factory price of tebuconazole 97% TC witnesses slip in early May 2012

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How Will Global Mancozeb Market Go from 2012 to 2016?

Mancozeb, a broad-spectrum fungicide, introduced in 1962 but still plays a significant role in the world fungicide market. It is used on a wide variety of food/feed crops, including fruit trees, vegetable crops, field crops, etc. Mancozeb can control early blight, late blight, anthracnose, rust, downy mildew, etc. The demand of mancozeb is increasing year by year, and its global capacity increased largely during 2003 to 2009. With its market value reaching USD400 million in 2009, mancozeb’s global capacity is estimated to exceed 220,000t/a in 2010. What is the overall information of mancozeb registration, supply, demand, international trade flows and market price in global market? What are the 2012 – 2016 future trends of above aspects respectively?

As one of the most popular bulk commodities of fungicides, mancozeb is manufactured concentrate on Asia-pacific, South America and Europe. In recent years, global market of mancozeb has had some changes. The Asia-pacific, shares the largest percent of global mancozeb market, and China and India are the largest producers of mancozeb in Asia-pacific. Furthermore, South America also has a big share of mancozeb market, but its production bases nearly serve for North America market. The U.S. is the represent country. Most of the mancozeb is exported to the U.S. European market deserves attention as it takes up a large part of total mancozeb market share in the world. About 80% of European mancozeb is consumed by itself. How does mancozeb industry develop in major countries, such as China, India, Australia, Thailand, USA etc? What are the registration, supply, demand, and future forecast of mancozeb in these countries?

In addition, some huge producers of mancozeb had some merger projects and there are some policies related to mancozeb in some countries, which would certainly have influence on the global market of mancozeb. For example, UPL purchased the fungicide business which including the mancozeb technical business in the world and related property from DuPont in June 2010. What’s more, Dow AgroScience India was resisted by Indian government due to its bribe on pesticide registration. These factors probably make the global circulation situation of mancozeb change. What are the company dynamics of key mancozeb manufacturers in the world, including Dow AgroSciences, UPL, Bayer, Du Pont etc?

All questions will be answered in CCM International’s upcoming report of Survey of Global Mancozeb. The report is expected to come out in May, 2012. If you need more detail of this report, please feel free to contact us at econtact@cnchemicals.com.

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