Finland’s UPM has launched UPM Solargo™, a new line of bio-based plant stimulants, marking the company’s entry into the agricultural chemical market. In long-term testing, UPM said the products have shown to increase crop yield and quality, and also have the potential to help reduce demand for conventional NPK fertilizers.
UPM said the biostimulants are a natural product containing plant-based polyphenols from renewable sources. They are derived from lignin, a bio-based, non-toxic raw material. It said test marketing has been finalized with success in main European markets and the process of rolling out UPM Solargo at full industrial scale has started.