Summary: Shandong KingAgroot has undertaken a 400 t/a herbicide TC project. The company plans to build production capacity for fluchloraminopyr TC, flusulfinam TC, flufenoximacil TC, bipyrazone TC, broclozone TC, tripyrasulfone TC, fenpyrazone TC and cypyrafluone TC, each of the eight products with 50 t/a.

On 8 May, Qingdao KingAgroot CropScience Co., Ltd. (KingAgroot CropScience) revealed that it would make full use of the plant of its new subsidiary Shandong KingAgroot CropScience Co., Ltd. (Shandong KingAgroot, its former name was Shandong Yixing Bio-technology Co., Ltd.) and launch a 400 t/a herbicide TC project in the plant. According to the plan, Shandong KingAgroot will construct a set of shared production equipment for 50 t/a fluchloraminopyr TC, 50 t/a flusulfinam TC, 50 t/a flufenoximacil TC, 50 t/a bipyrazone TC, 50 t/a broclozone TC, 50 t/a tripyrasulfone TC, 50 t/a fenpyrazone TC and 50 t/a cypyrafluone TC. Production of these products will rotate in accordance with production schedule, and once the manufacture of a product finishes, production of the next product will only start after the equipment being cleaned up. It is worth noting that all the eight products are novel herbicides independently developed by innovation centres under KingAgroot CropScience.

Shandong Yixing Bio-technology Co., Ltd., founded in Nov. 2006, is located in the Lingang Industrial Park of Weifang Binhai Economic and Technological Development Zone, Weifang City, Shandong Province. In Dec. 2022, Qingdao KingAgroot Resistant Weed Management Co., Ltd. (Qingdao KingAgroot) fully acquired the company and renamed it. As Qingdao KingAgroot is a wholly-owned subsidiary of KingAgroot CropScience, Shandong KingAgroot is thus a wholly-owned sub-subsidiary of KingAgroot CropScience.

The park that Shandong KingAgroot settles in, Lingang Industrial Park, is a provincial accredited chemical industrial park; pesticide industry is one of the industries the park focuses on. Multiple domestically influential pesticide enterprises also have plants here. Considering supportive policies at national level, provincial level and local development zone level, it is believed that Shandong KingAgroot has a great potential and its expansion is quite feasible. And this time, the 400 t/a herbicide TC project indeed aims for a better future development of Shandong KingAgroot.

Recent years have witnessed breakthroughs one after another achieved by KingAgroot CropScience's innovation centres in innovative development of novel herbicide products. Besides the aforementioned eight herbicides, other herbicide successes in KingAgroot CropScience include ezuocaoding, jiayangmicaowo and fuxiucaomi.

Commercialisation efforts of self-developed herbicides have also been made in another KingAgroot CropScience's wholly-owned subsidiary Jiangsu KingAgroot Resistant Weeds Control Co., Ltd. (Jiangsu KingAgroot). At present, Jiangsu KingAgroot has already built up production capacity for tripyrasulfone TC, fenpyrazone TC, cypyrafluone TC, bipyrazone TC and downstream formulation products in its plant in the Huai'an Salt Chemical New Material Industrial Park, Huai'an City, Jiangsu Province. The follow-up efforts to launch 400 t/a herbicide TC project in Shandong KingAgroot will not only bring KingAgroot CropScience's total capacity for tripyrasulfone TC, fenpyrazone TC, cypyrafluone TC and bipyrazone TC to a new level, but also show the company's determination to achieve industrialisation of a larger pool of new products.

Beyond the eye-catching progresses in novel herbicides, KingAgroot CropScience's innovation centres have also branched out to other pesticide categories. It has patented the compound ezuofuchongan, its first fruit in insecticide sector. The product is stomach-toxic, contact-toxic, and systemic to some extent. It acts fast and is effective on a wide range of pests. It is said that KingAgroot CropScience has already proposed to expand capacity of the eight products covered in this 400 t/a project in Shandong KingAgroot, as well as to set up new production line for ezuofuchongan TC in the same plant.