Willowood Chemicals new state-of-art agrochemical facility to commence production of Actives / Technical from August 2022

The new state-of-art pesticide technical facility with 11 production lines, has been an investment of Willowood Industries, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Willowood Chemicals Ltd, one of India’s leading agrochemical companies that manufactures technicals and formulations for domestic & global market, will commence production from August 2022. There will be separate dedicated plants for Herbicides, Fungicides & Insecticides.

This will be a state-of-the-art DCS controlled zero liquid discharge manufacturing facility designed to produce 18000 mts of technical products. With this investment, Willowood completes its plan of becoming a fully backward & forward integrated company from producing intermediates to technical & offering final products to farmers through its distribution channels.

The following Willowood flagship products will be produced in this new facility:

• Sulfentrazone tech
  

• Mesotrione tech
  

• Halosulfuron-methyl tech  
  

• Tebuconazole tech
  

• Azoxystrobin tech
  

• Flonicamid tech
  

• Chlorantraniprole tech*
  

• Thiamethoxam tech
  

• Spiromesifen tech
  

• Pinoxaden tech
  

• Oxyflourfen tech
  

• Cafentrazone tech
  

• Tembotrione tech
  

• Fenoxaprop-P-ethyl tech
  

• Difenoconazole tech
  

• Trifloxystrobin tech
  

• Cymoxanil tech
  

• Kresoxim Methyl tech
  

• Pyriproxifen tech
  

• Pymetrozine tech
  

*The product will be produced only after patent expiry

Willowood Chemicals is already in production of unique & patented formulations with its production facility in Vadodara, Gujarat. The company has a strong research and development infrastructure support & different segments including its In-House R&D Capabilities, GLP & NABL accredited laboratory and a committed team of agronomists & R&D personnel to fuel a continuous pipeline of developing new, innovative, unique and patented formulations.

All new products launched by Willowood Chemicals will be accompanied by a complete registration dossier. Until now, the company has already applied for more than 50 patents for unique formulations applicable on crop protection products as well as process patents for manufacturing of certain actives, out of which the company has received 26 grants/patent approvals.

Willowood has recently incorporated a subsidiary in Brazil and obtained 7 registrations, and 13 products are in the pipeline.

The group operates its offices in Hong Kong, India, China, UAE, Kenya, Indonesia and Brazil.