Dow AgroSciences Expands T&O Product Line with Acquisition of MACH 2

INDIANAPOLIS  - Dow AgroSciences LLC has retained all rights to the MACH 2 turf insecticide product through an acquisition of remaining shares of RohMid from BASF Corporation, the company announced last week.

MACH 2 (an acronym for molt-accelerating compound halofenozide), available in liquid, granular and on-fertilizer formulations, is labeled for control of white grub larvae, including Japanese beetles, northern and southern masked chafers and May/June beetles; and lepidopterous larvae such as cutworms, sod webworms and armyworms.

Scott Eicher, senior product marketing manager, Dow Agrosciences, explained that with the limitations placed on the use of Dursban, the acquisition of MACH 2 will help to expand the company's insecticide business.

The product will continue to be marketed under the MACH 2 trade name and distribution partners will be identified this month, Eicher related.

"When you look at the Rohm & Haas distributors and the list of Dow AgroSciences distributors, most of them were the same," Eicher continued. "But there were a few that Rohm & Haas had that Dow didn't, and vice versa. We're just trying to make sure that we've got a list that will fit our total business."

RohMid was established as a joint venture between American Cyanamid Company and Rohm and Haas in 1995.  With the acquisition of the American Home Products crop protection business in July 2000, BASF acquired the American Cyanamid Company's interest in RohMid.

Dow AgroSciences acquired a 50 percent interest in RohMid with the purchase of Rohm and Haas Company's agricultural chemicals business last June.

Dow AgroSciences LLC, based in Indianapolis, is a manufacturer of pest management and biotechnology products employing about 6,000 people in over 50 countries with worldwide sales of $3 billion.