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Today, Makhteshim Agan Industries announced an agreement with Bayer Crop Science whereby Makhteshim Agan of North America (MANA) and other affiliates will introduce the first post-patent imidacloprid insecticides to the U.S. market.
As an affiliate of MANA, Control Solutions will produce imidacloprid turf, ornamental, and pest control products. Imidacloprid is a valuable active for broad-spectrum, systemic insect control in row crops, vegetables, fruit, nut, vine crops, and non-crop uses in turf, ornamental, and pest control.
With the addition of imidacloprid, Control Solutions now has five of the six termiticide actives available, and is looking to add fipronil when it becomes available to the post-patent market in 2009. The as-yet-unnamed imidacloprid termiticide joins Control Solutions’ already strong termiticide family including Bifen I/T, Permethrin SFR, and Cyper TC.
Pricing and programs on the imidicloprid products should be available by the end of the third quarter of 2005. Control Solutions slates January 2006 as a target date for their imidacloprid products to hit the professional and turf markets.
Control Solutions is a manufacturer and marketer of post-patent chemicals and markets a full range of herbicides, insecticides, and fungicides as end-use products throughout the United States.
Makhteshim Agan Industries is based in Israel. Makhteshim Agan of North America has it's U.S. operations in Raleigh, N.C.