June 4, 2010, Wilmington,
DE – DuPont recently announced it has divested its global non-mixture mancozeb
fungicide business assets to United Phosphorus, Ltd. (UPL), including
manufacturing and formulation production facilities in Barranquilla, Colombia.
June 4, 2010, Wilmington,
DE – DuPont recently announced it has divested its global non-mixture mancozeb
fungicide business assets to United Phosphorus, Ltd. (UPL), including
manufacturing and formulation production facilities in Barranquilla, Colombia.
Financial terms of the
agreement were not disclosed.
UPL will receive rights to
registered brands for non-mixture mancozeb products, as well as registrations
and supporting regulatory data for those products, which include Manzate® brand
fungicides. DuPont will continue to market and maintain registrations and
trademarks for mancozeb mixtures such as DuPont™ Curzate® M, Equation® Contact
and Mankocide® fungicides.
“DuPont is entering a
critical and exciting phase in the renewal of its crop protection portfolio,”
said James C. Collins, president – DuPont Crop Protection. “New products are
emerging from our research and development pipeline and are launching in the
marketplace, like DuPont™ Rynaxypyr®. Strategic divestitures like this one give
us more resources and energy to focus on delivering innovations to growers that
help them increase food production.”
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