BASF ups new ais and pipeline sales potential - Agrow

Companies AGROW | No 633 | February 8th 2012
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BASF ups new ais and pipeline
sales potential
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Bayer files COMPANIES Products third NEWS GMO IN BRIEF suit against
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Dow
BASF has increased the combined peak annual sales potential
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of its range of new active ingredients by €400 million ($518
million at the current rate) to €2,800 million ($3,625 million).
The upward revision comes mainly through a €300 million
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Bayer CropScience PRODUCTS has filed NEWS another IN BRIEF US lawsuit against Dow
AgroSciences over alleged patent infringement involving herbicide
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tolerance in genetically modified crops. The latest suit accuses
Dow of “unauthorised
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use”
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of Bayer
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patents related to glufosinate
($388 million) rise in the peak annual potential for the
fungicide, pyraclostrobin (trade-marked as F500), which has
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been moved up to €1,000 million ($1,295 million). In addition,
tolerance technology. It was filed in the US District Court for
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the Eastern District PRODUCTS of Virginia NEWS IN last BRIEF month. Bayer is seeking a
permanent injunction against Dow’s use of the technology.
several projects from early research have been promoted to
development status.
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Bayer has filed
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two previous
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lawsuits
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PRODUCTS NEWS IN BRIEF against Dow over alleged
patent infringement through Dow’s development of herbicide-
The company AUSTRALASIA highlights NEWS the IN realisation BRIEF of a major part of the
€1,600 million ($2,072 million) peak annual sales potential
from ais launched since 2002. These include: the fungicides,
pyraclostrobin, orysastrobin, dimoxystrobin, boscalid and
metrafenone; the herbicides, INTELLIGENCE
tritosulfuron and topramezone; and
the insecticides,
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chlorfenapyr and metaflumizone. “This shows
our strong ability to successfully commercialise our products,”
says BASF’s crop protection division president, Markus Heldt.
He points MEETING out the growth in four years of the company’s new ais’
sales potential from €1,800 million ($2,331 million) to €2,800
million.
BASF puts the peak annual sales potential for ais and
genetically COMPANIES modified NEWS crops IN being BRIEFlaunched
within the current
decade
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at €1,200 million ($1,554
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million).
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They include: the
fungicides, ametoctradin (trade-marked as Initium), fluxapyroxad
(trade-marked as Xemium) and a yet-to-be-named fungicide;
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the herbicide, saflufenacil (trade-marked as Kixor) and a yetto-be-named
WORLD herbicide; NEWS IN BRIEF a new insecticide; the imidazolinone
herbicide-tolerant Dow’s new GM sulfoximine soybeans, Cultivance, compound
co-developed with
the Recent Brazilian published agricultural patents research from Dow corporation, AgroSciences the divulge Embrapa; activity
and around dicamba-tolerant EUROPE a certain NEWS N-sulfoximine IN GM BRIEF crops, compound which are with being insecticidal co-developed
with properties. Monsanto. The compound, according to the claims from US
patent PRODUCTS No 20100152245A1 NEWS ROUND-UP entitled “Insecticidal N-substituted
(6-haloalkylpyridin-3-yl)-alkyl sulfoximines” of June 2010, describes
blockbuster the general structure herbicide of the . . active . ingredient and the preferences
regarding its radicals.
The company calls Kixor its blockbuster herbicide. The ai has
been The launched
AMERICAS preferred in structure NEWS
North
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and many markets in Latin
America ASIA and NEWS is scheduled IN BRIEF to enter the Brazilian market in the
near future, which will support its global peak sales potential
currently estimated to be €200 million ($259 million). The
Cultivance WORLD/AUSTRALASIA ASIA/AUSTRALASIA soybeans are due NEWS NEWS to IN be IN BRIEF launched BRIEF in Brazil in 2013.
Dicamba-tolerant soybeans are due to be commercialised in
2014 (Agrow No 631, p 4).
In 2011, BASF invested 9-10% of its crop protection sales
tolerant Enlist AMERICAS EUROPE COMPANIES soybeans. NEWS NEWS Last NEWS IN IN BRIEF October, IN BRIEF BRIEF it accused Dow of
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infringing seven PRODUCTS Bayer patents NEWS IN covering BRIEF glyphosate tolerance
technology (Agrow AGBIOTECH/RESEARCH No 628, p 3). That claim followed a 2010
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lawsuit involving a Bayer patent covering tolerance to the
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phenoxy herbicide, PRODUCTS 2,4-D NEWS (Agrow IN BRIEF
ASIA ASIA/AUSTRALASIA NEWS IN BRIEFNEWS
No 606, IN BRIEF p 3).
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Dow believes EUROPE all three NEWS lawsuits IN BRIEF are “without merit” and says
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that it will aggressively ASIA/AUSTRALASIA/WORLD ASIA/AUSTRALASIA defend itself NEWS against IN NEWS BRIEF all IN of BRIEF them. The
company adds AMERICAS
EUROPE that it has NEWS
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IN
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BRIEF a “substantial intellectual
property estate” EUROPE and has NEWS the IN “utmost BRIEF respect” for intellectual
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property rights. PRODUCTS “Dow AgroSciences NEWS IN BRIEF will do everything in
its power to keep AMERICAS Bayer NEWS from interfering IN BRIEF with its history of
innovation and
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ASIA ASIA/AUSTRALASIA to
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prevent
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Bayer NEWS from IN depriving BRIEF American
farmers of Enlist AMERICAS products.” NEWS IN BRIEF
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Dow’s Enlist soybeans EUROPE NEWS are tolerant IN BRIEF to 2,4-D, glyphosate
and glufosinate-ammonium. ASIA/AFRICA ASIA/AUSTRALASIA NEWS They
NEWS ROUND-UP are being
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developed in
collaboration PEOPLE MEETING with US biotechnology company M S Technologies
(West Point, Iowa). ASIA/AUSTRALASIA The firms applied NEWS for IN BRIEF USDA deregulation of
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the soybeans MEETING last August (Agrow No 622, p 27).
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n Monsanto/MAI
ASIA/AFRICA PRODUCTS ASIA/AUSTRALASIA extend herbicide
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Monsanto and Makhteshim-Agan Industries’ (MAI) US business,
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MANA Crop Protection, PRODUCTS have NEWS extended IN BRIEFtheir
US herbicide
promotion deal MEETING to include MANA’s cotton herbicide, Direx 4L
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(diuron). Several EUROPE PEOPLE MANA NEWS products
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NEWS IN BRIEF were included in Monsanto’s
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Roundup Ready Plus programme, BRIEF which was started in 2010
(Agrow No 603, EUROPE p 3). NEWS Direx 4L IN BRIEF is effective against glyphosate-
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resistant www.agrow.com pigweed (Amaranthus palmeri) and marestail (Conyza
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canadensis), MANA points out. MAI acquired DuPont’s global
non-mixture diuron AMERICAS MEETING herbicide
AMERICAS NEWS business,
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Karmex brands, last year (Agrow No BRIEF 614, p 2).
in research PEOPLE and development. It invested €393 million ($509
million) The compound in R&D in is said 2010, to be which active was against equivalent pests that to some have become 10% of
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n Strong Q3 AMERICAS boosts Jiangsu NEWS IN BRIEF Yangnong
its
resistant
crop protection
to one or
sales
more
(Agrow
insecticides
No 612,
currently
p 3).
on the market, as it
either has a new mode of action or an atypical one. Pests targeted
include aphids, plant hoppers, leafhoppers, and whiteflies when
used on food and non-food crops.
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Chinese www.agrow.com agrochemical ASIA/AUSTRALASIA COMPANIES company NEWS IN NEWS Jiangsu
ASIA/AUSTRALASIA NEWS BRIEF IN Yangnong
NEWS IN BRIEF Chemical
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recorded strong pesticide sales of Yuan 373.4
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million ($58.6
million at the ASIA/AUSTRALASIA current rate) in the NEWS third IN quarter BRIEFof
2011, up
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68.3% compared with the same period last year. Net profit for
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the three months shot up 70.3% to Yuan 23.5 million ($3.7
PEOPLE
million). The PEOPLE company’s PEOPLE nine-month sales increased by 15% to
Yuan 1,391.6 PEOPLE million ($218.5 million). However, net profit fell
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by 15.2% to Yuan PEOPLE 110.4 million ($17.3 million).
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