Syngenta: Acquisitions, Collaborations and Investments in 2014

AgroPages recently made a summary of the acquisitions, cooperations and investments from global agrochemical enterprises in 2014, which is outlined in 3 categories—the top 6 global agrochemical multinationals, the generic agrochemical leaders and others. The information will be successively presented in accordance with the single company.

Syngenta, as the world's top-ranking agrochemical giant, ceaselessly accelerated the integration of resources in seed/traits in recent years, including the acquisitions for the seed companies, the establishment of R & D and channel cooperations with the professional seed companies, as well as expansion of the investment for the seed facility in the world. The details are as follow:

Acquisitions:
Syngenta acquires the German and Polish winter wheat and winter oilseed rape breeding and business operations from the Swedish group, Lantmännen
Syngenta acquires Italian durum wheat seed company Società Produttori Sementi(PSB)
Syngenta acquired lettuce germplasm from US  lettuce breeding company Eagle Research and Development.

Collaborations:
Syngenta Canada partners with the Canadian Wheat Alliance, KWS and the Western Grains Research Foundation on double-haploid technology
Syngenta and IITA collaborate to boost food production in Nigeria
Syngenta and Anheuser-Busch InBev enter malting barley collaboration
Syngenta partners with BT to support global growth
Syngenta and Nexgen Plants enter research and development collaboration on virus resistance technology
Syngenta,CEEDS and NEF signed a technology use agreement on treatment of material used for vegetative propagation
Syngenta and Cellulosic Ethanol Technologies collaborate to increase ethanol plant productivity
Syngenta and UNCCD partner to address the soil conservation challenge globally
Syngenta,Unilever and Infineum collaborate in high performance computing (HPC) to drive a radical reduction in speed-to-market for their new product
Syngenta seed and Gavilon sign Agrisure Duracade marketing agreement
Syngenta and Cellulosic Ethanol Technologies collaborate to produce first cellulosic ethanol
Syngenta Biotechnology and AgBiome collaborate on product development for protection of specific crops
Syngenta and Precision BioSciences expand genome engineering partnership

Investments:
Syngenta reopened Clinton corn and soybean R&D facility
Syngenta establishes Africa's first seed care facility
Syngenta opens seed care institute in Mexico
Syngenta re-opens seed corn production facility in US
Syngenta opens seeds treatment center in Argentina
Syngenta China opens new formulation facility in Nantong