Burr Ridge, Ill.-Nufarm Americas and Sumitomo Chemical Co.’s affiliate Valent de Mexico (VdM) intend to form a strategic alliance in Mexico to distribute crop protection products. Nufarm will provide selected products from its line of herbicides, insecticides, and fungicides to VdM, which will offer those products through its established existing distribution channel. The companies say their offerings are complementary; in Mexico, VdM has focused on specialty crops and branded products, while Nufarm is one of the world’s largest suppliers of herbicides for broad-acre crops, as well as of a wide array of fungicides and insecticides. VdM will have exclusive rights to sell certain Nufarm products to its distributors under private branded labels. Nufarm will continue its model of selling product to industrial customers. The final agreement is expected to be completed by the end of the first quarter. Nufarm Americas is a subsidiary of Nufarm Ltd., a manufacturer, supplier, and marketer of crop protection products based in Australia.
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