Abstract
This report is the second in a set of three investigating the current state of
the generic pesticide industry and market.
This first report contains profiles of 100 of the most important generic
pesticide companies in the world today. The second report contains profiles of
100 of the most important generic pesticide ais. The third report provides a
detailed analysis of the generic pesticide market and industry, and explores
the forces that will drive the development of the generic pesticide industry
over the next few years. These three reports are updated editions of reports
on the generic pesticide industry that Agrow published first in 1998 and then,
as new editions, in 2001 and 2005.
Total global sales were the main criteria for inclusion of an ai in this
report. Other factors taken into account include the number of generic
companies manufacturing each ai, usage figures, and how recently the ai lost
its patent protection.
Each profile begins with a box detailing the activity and general uses for
that specific ai. The profile then continues with: information on the
registration status of the ai in major markets such as the US and the EU;
details on the generic companies that currently manufacture the ai; and
information on the size of the global market, both in terms of volume
manufactured and sales value. Not all of these sections will appear in every
ai profile.
An ai is included in this report, and therefore classified as generic, if it
is being independently manufactured by companies that did not originally
develop the ai or have not obtained production licenses from the original
developer. This means that certain newer ais have been included, such as
thiamethoxam, even though they are still patent-protected in a large number of
markets. If an ai is currently being manufactured by at least several generic
producers, such as is the case with thiamethoxam, then it was considered for
inclusion.
Of the 100 ais profiled in this report, 10 are new profiles not included in
any previous edition: the fungicides epoxinconaole and kresoxim-methyl; the
herbicides fenoxaprop-P-ethyl, glufosinate, nicosulfuron, pretilachlor and
quizalofop; and the insecticides and acaricides emamectin, fipronil and
thiamethoxam. Nine of these ais have only recently become "generic", either
because they are beginning to lose their patent protection or because they are
being produced by generic manufacturers based in countries where the ai is not
protected. The exception is the herbicide glufosinate, which is rather older
than the other ais and seems to have become more popular with generic
manufacturers mainly because of the uptake of glufosinatetolerant GM crops in
an increasing number of countries.
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