DuPont Sells Mancozeb To UPL

Matt Hopkins Posted by Matt Hopkins|4 June 2010

WILMINGTON, Delaware, US — DuPont Co. has divested its global non-mixture mancozeb fungicide business assets to Mumbai, India-based United Phosphorus, Ltd. (UPL), including manufacturing and formulation production facilities in Barranquilla, Colombia.

DuPont, which says it is renewing its crop protection portfolio with new products such as Rynaxypyr, will continue to market and maintain registrations and trademarks for mancozeb mixtures such as DuPont Curzate M, Equation Contact and Mankocide fungicides. Effective immediately, UPL will receive rights to registered brands for non-mixture mancozeb products, as well as registrations and supporting regulatory data for those products, which include Manzate brand fungicides.

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
 

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