Rainbow Agro announces manufacturing expansion in North America

Date:03-25-2024

Rainbow Agro announces an expansion to the company’s global manufacturing footprint with operations near Houston, Texas. This facility joins the Rainbow worldwide network of facilities in Spain, Argentina and China.

The Houston facility provides formulation and automated packaging capability for herbicide products and was newly built in 2022 by Apex Ag Chem. Led by a very talented team, this modern and highly efficient operation has proven to safely deliver impressive levels of quality and reliability since its introduction.

″We are excited to demonstrate Rainbow’s strategic ambition to deliver supply chain solutions to our customer partners,″ Tom Lyons, General Manager, Rainbow North America, ″the operations and team in Houston represent Rainbow’s first step towards building an efficient manufacturing and supply chain platform in North America.″

Planning for growth, Rainbow Agro will commence an expansion of the facility this Spring, which will increase and double size of the operation area and include additional automation for production efficiency.

Rainbow Agro is striving to explore the full-process methodology for the landing of excellent overseas formulation factories in the high-standard construction of overseas formulation factories in recent years. In November 2022, Rainbow announced the acquisition of 100% stake in Spanish Agrochemical Company Exclusivas Sarabia S.A. in cash. In mid-April 2023, Rainbow Argentina purchased another 6 hectares of land in the Buenos Aires Ezeiza Industrial Park and will start the construction of a new factory there. Rainbow Argentina will have two preparation processing plants, including Green Crop, which it controlled in 2015.