What Happens If Grangemouth Stops Making Azoxystrobin?
Syngenta opened a consultation on October 1 to close the Scottish plant that has made the world's best-selling fungicide since 1996, putting 377 jobs at risk. A trade profile of the molecule asked in 2010 how much of the market Indian and Chinese producers would take. The US customs book has already answered: a third of America's imported fungicide now ships from India, and the British lane is down to six tenths of one percent.
A trade profile of azoxystrobin written around 2010 closes its manufacturing section with a line that has since aged into a verdict.
Several companies in India and China, it notes, "claimed to manufacture azoxystrobin but it will be interesting to see what percentage of the market they can gain in the next 10 years."
On October 1, Syngenta proposed closing the plant that profile was describing.
Grangemouth, Scotland. 377 jobs at risk, a formal consultation with staff and union representatives opened the same day, and the company's position that no final decision has been taken.
"If the original plant stops, what actually changes in an American buyer's book?"
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