Crop Protection

Specialty solutions for seed treatment and water management to increase agricultural performance.

Highly efficient plant protection is more important than ever before with the world’s population on the rise and global climate changes being felt around the world. The appropriate use of fertilizer and crop protection products such as herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, biocides and biostimulants helps to minimize crop losses.

Evonik offers specialty adjuvants, additive solutions, biocompatible formulants, seed treatment additives and water management solutions that increase agricultural performance and sustainability. Our specialty adjuvants (tank-mix) are surfactants or surface-active agents that change the physical properties of the spray solutions. Adjuvants are determined by the mode of action from the nozzle to the target. Our solvents, based on VESTASOL® IP, play a remarkable role in the agrochemical industry. Their special properties allow formulations that permit a very fine and optimum distribution of herbicides or pesticide, thereby increasing the effectiveness of the active agent.

BREAK-THRU® - Surfactant Technology

We are committed to providing specialty additives to the agricultural industry, for both uses such as tank mix adjuvants and in-can additives for conventional and biological pesticide formulations.

With an emphasis on innovative solutions, we offer agricultural chemicals based on both siloxane and organic surfactants under the BREAK-THRU® brand name such as spreaders and penetrants, antifoams, dispersants, emulsifiers and carrier liquids. Our experienced staff of agronomists and interfacial chemistry experts link chemistry with agronomy.

Silica for sustainable crop protection formulations

Silica from Evonik is a highly effective carrier, free-flow and anti-caking agent and rheology modifier in crop protection formulations. As an inorganic, inert and highly pure substance, it is well-suited for agrochemical formulations, because it does not react with active ingredients. Moreover: Silica advances the development of eco-friendly, biological products, because it is a naturally derived mineral ingredient that is not harmful to soil and water and enters the geological cycle of minerals once released into the environment. In liquid crop protection formulations, AEROSIL® and SIPERNAT® silica help to adjust rheological properties. At the same, they act as stabilizing agents, preventing active ingredients from settling, which ensures long-term stability. In crop protection powders and granulates, SIPERNAT®, AEROSIL® and ZEOFREE® serve as free flow and anti-caking agents, and as carriers for liquid active ingredients. In crop protection products with a “slow-release effect”, AEROSIL® and SIPERNAT® hydrophobic silica applied on the surface of granulates or powders delay the diffusion of active ingredients.

AEROSIL®

SIPERNAT®

ZEOFREE®

VESTASOL®