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Investor News 51368 Leverkusen
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New Bayer CropScience active ingredient approved in Romania:
Thiencarbazone-methyl registered in first market
Annual sales potential of more than EUR 100 million for new corn herbicide
Leverkusen, August 27, 2008 – Bayer CropScience has reached a further milestone in
the expansion of its successful product portfolio with the grant of the first regulatory
approval for its new corn herbicide thiencarbazone-methyl in Romania. Thiencarbazone-
methyl and the newly developed safener cyprosulfamide will be marketed in Romania in
combination with the established active ingredient isoxaflutole as a ready-to-use-
formulation under the brand name Adengo®. The market launch is scheduled for 2009.
Further registrations for products based on thiencarbazone-methyl are expected in major
European corn-growing countries, in the United States and in Argentina in the course of
2009.
“We are confident of achieving a global peak sales potential of more than EUR 100
million annually with this active ingredient”, said Dr. Rüdiger Scheitza, Member of the
Board of Management of Bayer CropScience AG and responsible for Global Portfolio
Management. After tembotrione and pyrasulfotole, this is the third new herbicidal active
ingredient from the company’s successful research and development pipeline to reach
market readiness since 2007.
Thiencarbazone-methyl controls monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous weeds in corn
and displays a good balance between leaf action and soil action. The safener
cyprosulfamide accelerates the decomposition of the herbicide in the corn plant, thus
increasing its tolerability for the crop.
The spectrum of activity of thiencarbazone-methyl, a new sulfonyl-amino-carbonyl-
triazolinine, covers a wide range of weeds. Several years of trials carried out worldwide
with Adengo® have shown that it reliably controls even difficult weeds such as velvetleaf
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(Abutilon) and various species of pink weed. The product can be applied from pre-
emergence to early post-emergence. Bayer CropScience recommends corn growers to
use Adengo® as the new product combines good long-term action with outstanding
biological performance. Once again, Bayer CropScience is setting new standards in
modern, integrated weed management.
Bayer is a global enterprise with core competencies in the fields of health care, nutrition
and high-tech materials. Bayer CropScience AG, a subsidiary of Bayer AG with annual
sales of about EUR 5.8 billion (2007), is one of the world’s leading innovative crop
science companies in the areas of crop protection, non-agricultural pest control, seeds
and plant biotechnology. The company offers an outstanding range of products and
extensive service backup for modern, sustainable agriculture and for non-agricultural
applications. Bayer CropScience has a global workforce of about 17,800 and is
represented in more than 120 countries. This and further news is available at:
www.newsroom.bayercropscience.com
Bayer AG, Investor Relations contacts:
Dr. Alexander Rosar (+49-214-30-81013)
Dr. Juergen Beunink (+49-214-30-65742)
Peter Dahlhoff (+49-214-30-33022)
Ilia Kürten (+49-214-30-35426)
Ute Menke (+49-214-30-33021)
Judith Nestmann (+49-214-30-66836)
Dr. Olaf Weber (+49-214-30-33567)
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Fuente: CNMV
