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BASF Ups Brazilian Crop Chemicals

by Alexander H. Tullo
June 17, 2013 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 91, Issue 24

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BASF’s Guaratinguetá plant at night.
BASF is investing $67 million to expand its crop protection chemical plant in Guaratinguetá, Brazil.
Credit: BASF
BASF’s Guaratinguetá plant at night.

BASF is investing $67 million to expand its crop protection chemical plant in Guaratinguetá, Brazil. By the end of this month, the company will expand a plant making boscalid, an active ingredient that fights diseases in crops such as canola. It will build a formulation plant for Xemium, a carboxamide-based fungicide for soybeans and other crops. And it will erect a formulation plant for Heat, a new broadleaf herbicide. The latter two initiatives will be completed next year.

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