What we do to get better crops

From our renewed active ingredients and molecules, we create original formulations that best meet farmers’ needs as well as products designed to be effective worldwide.

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We revisit our products by observing them with new eyes: we customize them for new crops and targets, developing new formulations and blends, studying new production processes. Our goal is to grow in a sustainable way, with respect for corporate ethical values, safety of people and the environment

Paolo Brogi - CEO

A range of innovative solutions

We are specialised in the synthesis and formulation of active ingredients and offer our customers:

Biorationals & Biostimulants

Formulation & innovation excellence

Our customers choose us for our scientific, technical and creative approach. Thanks to our innovative business model and international partnerships, we are consistently able to offer novel solutions.

The innovation that sets our solutions apart comes from our synthesis and formulation laboratories, which work closely with our regulatory team, who are responsible for preparing and regularly updating registration dossiers.

We follow the entire scale-up phase and can count on an integrated supply chain covering all stages of development, production and market placement of our products and those of our customers.

The development of our products involves specific studies to identify the most suitable formulation type that enhances their effectiveness and selectivity, in compliance with environmental parameters.

In the formulation process, therefore, we take into account many variables and factors such as:

the nature of the active ingredients used
combinations of co-formulants, which allow us to obtain stable, effective and selective formulations over time
the technology used for each single formulation
the systematic control of the final quality of the products

Our solutions include different formulation types, starting with the more traditional ones, such as emulsifiable liquids, wettable powders, soluble liquids, suspension concentrates in water, and granules. They range through to the most complex, among which the micro encapsulated formulation deserves a particular mention. The aim is to allow: a reduced use of solvents, the slower breakdown of active substances, reduced odour emissions, lower acute toxicity of the final formulation, and reduced soil contamination of crops and leachability into groundwater.

Trust and Synergy

Our innovative capacity is the result of intuition; the intuition of founder Emilio Gagliardini, who in the 1960s saw Japan as a country to look to for new partners. That was a turning point. For over half a century, partnerships with leading Japanese R&D companies have enabled us to diversify and add even more value to our product portfolio.

Expertise makes the difference

An aptitude for innovation in agrotechnology and our ability to partner with other companies from the beginning has enabled us to become true specialists in crop protection and nutrition.

Biostimulants

With the acquisition in 2018 of Sofbey, the Swiss based Company specialised in the development and sales of plant biostimulants worldwide, we have started the global sales of BLACKJAK, an extraordinary biostimulant with impressive effects on rooting and greening of crops. BLACKJAK is obtained from a unique physical process that preserves all natural components of Leonardite, with acidic pH, and effective at much lower rates than the other products.

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Business to Consumers

In Italy, Spain and the UK, we have adapted our expertise to offer solutions for the home and garden sector. The companies of the Group (Ital - Agro in Italy, Sipcam Jardin in Spain and Sipcam Home and Garden in the UK), make available to consumers products for the care of balcony plants, the garden, and the small domestic vegetable patch.