Arysta LifeScience aspires to be known and respected as a company that sets new standards in crop production by applying bioscience in agriculture.
Arysta LifeScience EMEA provides modern, progressive solutions for sustained crop production. We develop and market a unique portfolio of seed treatment, crop protection and biosolutions products optimized for both specialty and arable crops. Our strong position in biosolutions and seed treatment market segments, together with our broad range of proven crop protection products, provides the basis for our unique ProNutiva™ concept, an integrated crop solution we are now launching in EMEA.
Our company serves developed markets with intense crop production—Western and Southern Europe—as well as emerging markets—Central Europe, Eastern Europe and Central Asia—where growth is especially rapid. Investments in our research and development program, our world-class production facilities, our broad distribution network, and our contract manufacturing capabilities allow us to provide a variety of innovative formulations to customers in these regions.
Arysta LifeScience facilities in Noguères, France, and Ougrée, Belgium, produce herbicides, fungicides and insecticides, while our operation in Saint-Malo, France, focuses on biosolutions. A facility in Evesham, England, serves as a center of excellence in seed treatment.
ARYSTA LIFESCIENCE IN THE WORLD
Arysta LifeScience is a global agricultural company specializing in the marketing and distribution of innovative crop protection and life science brands. With more than 200 active ingredients, Arysta LifeScience has a well-integrated biological and chemical portfolio to provide complete solutions to growers. The company’s wide range of offerings includes biosolutions; fungicides; herbicides; insecticides; and seed treatments. Arysta LifeScience, which has more than 4,000 employees working in over 100 countries to serve customers worldwide, had 2015 revenues of US$1.8 billion.
Arysta's “asset-lite, high-touch” business model optimizes its cost structure, resulting in greater flexibility and responsiveness to dynamic market changes. The asset-lite model involves mixing and blending ingredients supplied by others to produce unique formulations having performance characteristics that precisely target customer needs. The high-touch component of the model addresses Arysta's skilled research and development capability enhanced by a strong commercial, marketing and technical teams that stay close to the customer.
The new Arysta LifeScience is a consolidation of three legacy businesses: Arysta LifeScience, Chemtura AgroSolutions and Agriphar. The merging of these companies gave the new entity an unrivalled combination of leading products, complementary geographies across the globe, and deep market knowledge built on a combined 270+ years of business experience. Since 2015, the Company has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Platform Specialty Products (NYSE: PAH), based in Miami, Florida.
GLOBAL PRESENCE
Our Global Footprint with 7 Business Units around the world
OUR MISSION Our mission is to cultivate prosperity through advanced agriculture.
We develop unique combinations of innovative crop protection technologies and biosolutions for sustainable farming.
OUR VISION We aspire to be known and respected as a company that sets new standards in crop production by applying bioscience in agriculture.
Our values and behaviours are in the basis of everything we do
Customer focus
Customer focus
We strive to help our customers to succeed by offering advanced solutions, improving our responsiveness, and anticipating their needs. Our goal is to make the customer the driving force behind our decision-making.
Innovation
Innovation
We regard innovation as a process of finding unique solutions that result from new ways of thinking, creating new processes, or developing new products. Innovation is the force that keeps our Company's products near the top of customers’ preference lists.
Integrity and mutual respect
Integrity and mutual respect
We are dedicated to managing and operating our business in line with the highest business, ethical and moral principles. By maintaining our integrity through open, honest and fair dealings, we earn trust for ourselves and our products from everyone with whom we come in contact.
Safety & Environmental Stewardship
Safety & Environmental Stewardship
Safety in the workplace and in work practices is a priority. We strive to operate with the highest regard for safety and environment compliance.
Entrepreneurial spirit
Entrepreneurial spirit
We encourage entrepreneurial spirit - an approach to thinking that actively seeks out change, instead of simply responding to it. Entrepreneurial spirit is characterized by critical questioning, high level of performance, result driven approach, and direct accountability.
BU Head for EMEA since December 2017, after a number of global, regional and local roles in Arysta since joining in 2009. He has more than 16 years of experience in the Ag industry having been with Zeneca/Syngenta before.
Michel is responsible for equipping the company with the necessary organizational structure and people with the required skills to support strategy and objectives delivery. His main goal with the HR team is to support the business in talent acquisition, organization and people development, compensation and benefits, workforce engagement, and change management.
Michel has more than 32 years of experience in HR in the catering and services, pharmaceutical, and chemical industries, with Sodexho, Syngenta and their legacy companies. He has earned regional and global responsibilities over the past 19 years.
Favorite quote: “The past cannot be changed, so keep your focus on the future as you can shape it.”
Esteban heads Customer Marketing for EMEA, a team whose mission is to support Countries for growth and agility, driven by Crop Strategies and ProNutiva at its core.
Esteban joined Arysta in February 2017 as EMEA Customer Marketing Head, after an extensive International career across different industries such as Crop Protection, FMCG, Logistics and Automotive. He holds an INSEAD MBA.
Guy is responsible for the development of Arysta activities in West and Central Africa sub-region.
This role includes P&L management, strategic orientation and W&CA team lead.
Guy has 29 years of experience in crop protection, mostly in commercial roles in different cultures and geographies such as Africa, the Middle East, Western Europe (including the French market) and Latin America.
Guilhem is responsible for Legal, Insurance and Compliance. His focus is to be a trusted advisor and a reliable business team player to better serve and protect the business. Maintaining the agility to find solutions, and being ready to act decisively to maximize opportunities and minimize risks, is his “Company Act,” as is generating EBITDA for Arysta.
Guilhem has more than 22 years of experience in roles that included working in both a law firm and bank. He has been with Arysta for more than 20 years.
Two of his favorite quotes include:
“Not only avoid negative outcomes, but generate positive ones.”
“Dura Lex, Sed Lex” (The law is harsh, but it is the law).
Head of Southern, Eastern Africa and Public Health
Marcel is responsible for growth strategy development, commercial and P&L management of the Southern & Eastern Africa sub-region as well as the Public Health business in the Arysta EMEA business unit. His main goal is to drive his team to identify and explore new market opportunities and develop the business in the sub-region.
Marcel has over 25 years of professional experience in the agrochemicals industry, mainly responsible for technical and marketing functions as well as an active member of management teams. Marcel has an extensive knowledge of crop protection products, markets and the regulatory challenges facing the region. He is the current President of CropLife South Africa.
Favorite quote: “Enjoy life – People often miss the silver lining looking for gold”
Head of Central & Eastern Europe and Country Manager Romania
Stephen worked 10 years for BASF in USA, Mexico, New Zealand, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Romania & Bulgaria; and has 10 years of experience in Romanian Agriculture in Operational Farming 6.000ha, Grain Trading, Oilseed Crush and Input Sales Distribution.
Following 8 years in automotive and plastic industry, Yves joined the company 16 years ago, moving from Calliope, to Arysta and now PSP. His expertise is in ERP’s, IT applications and PMO with a lot of background in Supply Chain; supporting and helping the business in its growth.
Felix Lorente is Head of MED region (Italy, Greece/Cyprus, Maghreb & Turkey) in addition to his role as Country Manager ALS Iberia. Félix comes from BASF, where he has been Managing Director in various countries in LATAM and Portugal, and, previously, he held different positions in BASF Agro España, within the Sales department.
Head of Strategic Alliances, PMO, Tolling and Non-Crop
Martin is responsible for the coordination of the different integration projects in Europe, Middle East and Africa Business Unit. In parallel he took the role of site manager in Ougrée and he is leading the Non-Crop business in Europe. The main targets in his integration role are “one face to the customer,” delivering the synergies, and reducing back office complexity.
Martin has over 30 years of professional experience in the agrochemicals industry, mainly in functions related to registration and development, as well as senior-level positions in sales and marketing. His experience includes a profound knowledge of value creation through product strategy, combined with regulatory challenges.
Jozef’s main objective is to develop a modern portfolio of Seed Treatment, Conventional and BioSolutions products in targeted strategic crops and segments, delivering the value to Arysta partners and society in large.
Jozef has more than 20 years experience in Sales and various senior Marketing functions in Arysta LifeScience and its predecessor companies.
Favorite quote: "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
Mike is responsible for finance throughout Europe, Middle East and Africa. His primary goals are to deliver robust financial stewardship and effective business partnership across the region.
Mike has more than 20 years experience in finance having worked for various companies such as Ecolab and Johnson & Johnson in a number of country, regional and global roles. He has experience in the petrochemical, healthcare, FMCG and pharmaceutical sectors.
Originally from Inverness in the north of Scotland, Mike served with the British Royal Navy before qualifying as an accountant and embarking on his financial career.
Favourite quote: “The best things in life aren’t things.”
Production and R&D sites
We have a number of formulation plants, laboratories and research facilities in France, Belgium, England and Africa.
Noguères, France
Date of foundation: 1992
Services: formulation, packing and distribution services, inward process relief, bonded warehouse, storage of crop protection products
From sachets of 125ml to intermediate bulk containers (IBC) of 1000L
From sachet of 4g to big bags of 1000kg
Storage: 12 000 m², 9 000 MT
Laboratory: development and quality control
The site in Nogueres meets Quality and Safety Standards through compliance with Health and Safety Policy and different Certifications processes. It was granted with following certificates: ISO 9001 v2008, ISO 14001 v2004 and OHSAS 18001 v2007.
Ougrée, Belgium
Date of foundation: 1945
Services: formulation, packing and distribution services, storage of crop protection products
Liquid: Emulsion Concentrates (EC), Water-Soluble Concentrate (SL), Micro- Emulsions (ME), Oil in water emulsions (EW), Water in oil emulsions (EO), ULV solutions (UL)
Powder: dust powder (DP)
A range of packaging:
From cans of 100 ml to bulk containers (IBC) of 1000L
From 5 kg bags to bigbags
Storage: 20 warehouses equivalent to 20,000 m2
Laboratory: development and quality control
The site in Ougree is meeting all the requirements of quality control, environmental demands and health and safety standards. It has following certificates ISO 9001 v2008, ISO 14001 v2004.
Saint-Malo, France
Date of foundation: 1971
Services: production, formulation, packing, distribution, and storage of BioSolutions
Formulation type: Suspension Concentrate (SC) and Soluble Liquide (SL)
Storage Capacity: 2000 pallets
R&D capabilities: 4000 m²
Plant Pathology and Physiology laboratory (500 m²) with 5 climatic rooms and 4 greenhouses (100 m²) for tests in controlled conditions, belonging to Global Biological Laboratories Departement:
Screenings of Plant Protection Products, Biostimulants and Innovative Nutrition products
Mode of action elucidation
New products development
Screening area in field (3000 m²) to carry out the first screenings of products before testing in the field within the different regions of the world
Quality control
The site in Saint-Malo meets all the requirements of quality control, environmental demands and health and safety standards. It has ISO 9001 v2008 certificate.
Evesham, UK
Date of foundation: 1971
Services: global formulation and seed treatment centre of excellence
Formulation design, development & manufacturing support
Analytical support for formulation development (July 2016)
Quality control: ORETO (Official Recognition of Efficacy Testing Organisations) Compliance, Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) – an International Quality system supported by the OECD
Natural Plant Protection (NPP), France
Date of foundation: 1994
Services:
Development and production of biocontrol products
Synthesis and fomulation based on four biotechnologies: Insect viruses, Enthomopathogenic fungus, Plant extracts, Semiochemicals
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