Sumitomo announces launch of new molecules in Argentina in 2023

Date:12-14-2022

Sumitomo Chemical revealed to AgroPages that 2023 will be the beginning of a series of launches of new molecules for the Argentine market and the region, including biologicals.

According to Lucas Díaz Panizza, the company's Marketing Manager, Sumitomo Chemical "invests and works hard throughout the entire life cycle of a product from discovery, development, production, and the introduction of each of the molecules it launches on the market."

Lucas Díaz Panizza, Marketing Manager at Sumitomo Chemical

Esso said, ″Excellent performance and the highest quality and environmental safety standards – that is the differential and unique factor compared to other companies participating in the Argentine market.″

"We are advancing strategically with the new platform of solutions that the company brings. Working together with our network of clients, we can make the leap that differentiates us in this very dynamic, with the respective registrations starting next year," he said.

Added to this, in parallel, progress was also being made in everything related to the use of biological products in the main crops to increase productivity and pest control in a sustainable and 100% friendly way with the environment," Panizza stated.

″By 2023, we will have 'Indiflin™', a carboxamide for rust control mainly in winter cereals; next, we will have 'Rapidicil™', a herbicide from the PPO family, with unprecedented performance for the control of Amaranthus quitensis and also grasses,″ he revealed.

″Finally, in 2025, it will be the turn of ‘Pavecto™’, a fungicide that is part of a subgroup of strobilurins, and ‘Pleo™’, an insecticide to control the fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda),″ he explained.

For the line of biologicals, progress is also being made in launching new products, complementary to the action of chemical solutions, which will be presented very soon.

Díaz Panizza explained that in biosolutions, the offer which Sumitomo Chemical researches and develops is very broad.

"The goal is to develop products that have close contact with the seed to those that are applied directly to the soil (improving root development)," he said.

In this line of new products, there will also be solutions so that the crop is better prepared for tolerating stress, improving its growth, pest control, and fixing more yield per square meter, reducing the gaps between the achievable yield and the potential, he added.

(Editing by Leonardo Gottems, reporter for AgroPages)