Bayer CropScience to invest US$ 30 million in new seed processing facility in the United States

 
Bayer CropScience’s Nunhems subsidiary has opened a new vegetable seed processing facility at its site in Parma, Idaho. The company has invested some US$ 30 million in the new facility and in modernizing its existing capacities for seed processing and storage. Over the course of the almost three-year planning and construction phase, the site has been extended to a total area of 60 acres and has thus almost doubled in size.

Bayer CropScience expects the demand from its customers in the United States and the rest of the world for high-quality vegetable seed to continue to increase and plans to further expand its seed business by investing in both research and development and infrastructure.

Parma is the site of the U.S. headquarters of Bayer CropScience’s Nunhems subsidiary which, with annual sales of EUR 240 million (2009), is among the world’s top commercial vegetable seed producers. Here’s where most of the company’s onion and carrot seeds are processed, packaged and stored. Approximately 150 employees work there.

Nunhems has seed production locations in all Western states as well as research facilities in Brooks (Oregon) and Bakersfield, Lodi, Davis and Salinas (California). Nunhems employs a total of approximately 300 staff in the United States.