Good products, great vision, exceptional commitment

Unique business model yields organic growth

Since its founding in 2001, Arysta LifeScience has become one of the fastest growing companies in the industry1 and is currently the world’s largest privately held agrochemical company.

This success has been made possible by strong, loyal partnerships with:

  • Our customers worldwide;
  • Development companies that provide us with the most advanced products; and
  • Reliable manufacturers of high-quality active ingredients.

In addition, we’ve proven our ability to bring products to market rapidly and effectively using a unique approach to portfolio management that focuses on the most profitable functions in the value chain, including:

  • New product development and registration in select local markets;
  • Formulation and product packaging from externally sourced active ingredients; and
  • Marketing and distribution of both proprietary patented and off-patent products to local wholesalers and retailers.

Our hybrid business model with a balanced, 50:50 mix of proprietary and off-patent products, allows us to maintain a nimble, asset-light, low-capital investment business model, which is both downturn-resistant and highly scalable.

(1) Source: Phillips McDougall, May 2009

Complimentary Health & Nutrition Science business

The Arysta LifeScience business is not limited to agroscience. The company’s Health & Nutrition Science Unit, which represents approximately 10 percent of Arysta LifeScience sales, operates under three primary lines of business targeting niches within the Animal, Human and Plant Health markets:

 

  • Animal Health - offering a range of branded and non-branded products for minor species, companion animals and livestock, including APIVAR®, a world leading proprietary anti-mite treatment for honey bees;
  • Human Health - offering cosmetic and pharmaceutical active ingredients and additives, as well as excipients for the pharmaceutical and food additive industries; and,
  • Plant Nutrition - offering controlled release fertilizers for horticulture

Distinctive customer-focused point of view

At Arysta LifeScience, we build our portfolio with an intense focus on the customer. We strive to work as partners with our customers by providing high-quality chemical solutions that meet the rapidly changing needs of growers raising a diverse range of crops. That means we offer products that address particular challenges in all parts of the world.

This partnership approach is made possible by our strategic focus on specific functions in the value chain: product development, registration, formulation and packaging, and marketing and distribution. As a result, we can respond to customer needs, expand our business without significant additional fixed costs and quickly capitalize on new dynamics and industry opportunities.

We maintain a close connection to customers and their individualized markets by managing our business regionally, which allows us to concentrate on identifying, marketing and delivering needed and beneficial products to emerging markets across the globe. Three key factors have allowed our accelerated, responsible growth that outpaces most competitors:

  • The dedicated efforts of more than 2,400 Arysta LifeScience employees worldwide;
  • Strong, loyal ties to Japanese and other research companies; and 
  • A strategic product development and acquisition plan.