Agricultural Chemicals Industry Competitors

Once a socialist vision, now a model of capitalism, Koor Industries is Israel's leading holding company. Koor's core businesses include its holdings in agrochemicals (Makhteshim-Agan), defense electronics (Elisra Electronics Group), and telecommunications equipment (ECTel and Telrad Networks)....

DuPont Agriculture & Nutrition is into seed, weed, and feed. Among the largest of DuPont's six business units, DuPont Agriculture & Nutrition contains a number of units, subsidiaries, and joint ventures devoted to plant growth and protection....

Salt has preserved K+S (for Kali und Salz) for more than a century. Founded in 1889 to mine salt, K+S gets more than 40% of its sales from potash, which is extracted from salt and used in fertilizers. The company also produces salt used for industrial purposes (such as making glass), as well as for deicing roads and cooking....

When LESCO sees a golf course or a lawn, it sees green. The company sells fertilizer, grass seed, and turf-protection products used on golf courses and lawns, primarily under the LESCO name, but also under brands such as NOVEX (a longer-acting turf fertilizer)....

LSB Industries makes a wide variety of chemicals (including nitric acid) and climate-control products. Its chemicals segment makes nitrate fertilizers and acids for agricultural, mining, and industrial markets. The climate-control division makes hydronic fan coils and a variety of heat pumps....

When you've been doing it this long, you should be getting top marks, right? In operation since 1877, A H Marks & Company manufactures fine chemicals, performance chemicals, and agrochemicals for use throughout the UK. Its fine and performance chemicals include lithographic chemicals, phenol derivatives (for pharmaceuticals), and chlorinated products (used in perfumes and pharmaceuticals)....

It's no bull that Agrium is a top producer and marketer of fertilizers in North America. A leader in the production of nitrogen, the company operates plants in Canada, the US, and Argentina that produce mostly nitrogen (though also potash and phosphate) products....

American Soil Technologies works to make sure your farmland isn't dirt poor. The company manufactures agricultural chemicals that help retain water in soil, the direct benefit of which is manifold. In addition to minimizing the frequency of irrigation, the chemicals also decrease the likelihood of erosion and reduce other environmental damage....

American Vanguard Corporation (AMVAC) bugs bugs, roots out weeds, and helps people take care of their person. The company makes specialty chemicals designed to protect the health of animals, crops, and people. Products made by its AMVAC Chemical subsidiary include pesticides, plant-growth regulators, herbicides, and soil fumigants....

Got potash? If not, the Arab Potash Company (APC) would be glad to fix you up. The company mines the Dead Sea for potassium chloride, one of several potassium-based compounds commonly known as potash. The substance is used primarily for fertilizer, but also has industrial applications, for example in the manufacture of glass and ceramic....

If people turn to Bayer for what ails them, why can't plants? Bayer CropScience, a part of German chemicals and pharmaceuticals giant the Bayer Group, is a leading producer of agricultural chemicals. The company's Crop Protection unit makes fungicides, herbicides, and insecticides....

Bodisen Biotech wants to strengthen China's crops. The company makes "green" agriculture products. It has more than 60 products in three product lines -- organic compound fertilizer (about two-thirds of sales), liquid fertilizer, and pesticides. Its compound fertilizers are made for wheat, maize, tobacco, and vegetable and fruit crops....

Central Garden & Pet is happy to help with both pets and pests. The company is among the largest US manufacturers and distributors of lawn, garden, and pet supplies, providing its products to pet supplies retailers, home improvement centers, nurseries, and mass merchandisers from approximately 40 manufacturing plants and another 40 distribution centers located throughout the US; it also has sales offices in the UK....

Glassy Wing Sharp Shooters and Citrus Thrips beware! Cleary wants turf to be tip top at tee-time. Cleary Chemical Corporation makes fungicides, insecticides, nutrients, and colorants used by golf courses, nurseries, and greenhouses. The company also keeps the roaches running with the Roach Terminal, a chemical trap used to control the pests....

Converted Organics is not a group of new and fervent farmers but a company that is religiously developing a process to turn food into fertilizer. The development stage company plans to use organic food waste as raw material to make all-natural soil amendment products that combine both disease suppression and nutrition characteristics....

Bet Coronado never thought to look in Arkansas. LSB Industries did, though, and found its own El Dorado there. El Dorado Chemical is part of the chemical manufacturing division of LSB. It makes agricultural products and industrial chemicals, including nitrogen-based fertilizers, nitric acid, sulfuric acid, and industrial-grade ammonium nitrate for the mining industry....

Ask a horticulturist who can, and the answer just may be, "Florikan." The company, founded as Florikan E.S.A. (Environmentally Sustainable Agriculture) Corporation, provides professional horticultural products that range from biological pest control products and soil amendments to greenhouse coverings and nursery containers....

Global Bio-chem Technology believes in the power of the corn kernel. The company manufactures corn-refined and corn-based bio-chemical products, including crude corn oil, corn starch, corn germ cake, corn gluten meal, corn sweeteners, modified starch, and amino acids....

Landec Ag's products provide something of a wake-up call for crop seeds. The subsidiary of Landec Corporation produces temperature-activated seed coatings that allow for earlier planting. The coatings, marketed under the brand name Intellicoat, protect seeds planted in cold weather and control germination time, thereby increasing crop yields and extending the time period during which farmers can plant seeds....

Makhteshim-Agan Industries (MAI) manufactures generic forms of crop protection chemicals. Its products include herbicides, fungicides, and insecticides. Its first proprietray crop protection product was Rimon, which is not toxic for humans. Formed by the 1998 Koor Industries' acquisition of two separate public companies, the agrochemicals company has operations worldwide....