Neonicotinoid Insecticides Insight

Neonicotinoid insecticides Insight shapes a picture of the industry for your tracking the development and strategy. -- Market Overview -- Mechanisms and usages -- Key products -- Key Players -- Patents being expired -- Interview & Industry News -- Suppliers & Products -- Industry News

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Market Overview

The neonicotinoid insecticides, which derivate from the nicotine, are gaining larger and larger market shares in global crop protection market their broad spectrum of efficacy, together with systemic and translaminar action, pronounced residual activity and a unique mode of action。Currently the neonicotinoid products have become the most used botanic insecticides among the world.

In 1990, the global crop protection market of insecticide products were consisted of the organic phosphorus (43%), the pyrethroids(18%) and the carbamates (16%).However, since the launch of the first neonicotinoids, imidacloprid, which jointly developed by Bayer CropScience and Nihon Tokushu Noyaku in 1991 and rapidly been used by 89 countries and regions on over 60 kinds of crops. In 2005 the neonicotionoids has gained 16% of the global pesticide market. With annual sales of $1.941 billion the neonicotinoids overtook the pyrethroids and become the most fast-growing and prosperous products. Nearly 10 kinds of the products have been launched or imminent be launched into the market, some of the products have gained considerable market shares ,for example, the imidacloprid has become the largest insecticide in recent years. It is forecastable that the neonicotinonoids are to achieve annual sales of $2.5 billion and become the top best-selling insecticide in the world.

Mechanisms and usages

Unlike other insecticide, the neonicotinonoids bind at a specific site, the postsynaptic nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, and there are no records of cross-resistance to the carbamate, organophosphate, or synthetic pyrethroid insecticides, thus making them important for management of insecticide resistance. Because the neonicotinoids block a specific neural pathway that is more abundant in insects than warm-blooded animals, these insecticides are selectively more toxic to insects than mammals.

As a group they are widely used on vegetables, pomes, nuts, citrus, rice, cotton, maize, potatoes, sugar beets, rapes and soybeans and effective against Homoptera, Coleptera, Deptera and Lipidoptera. Another success factor is the ability of neonicotinoids to control pests that had developed resistance against a wide range of insecticides dominating the markets at that time. The success of this chemical class also relies on versatile application methods such as application with irrigation water in drip or drench systems for vegetables or in floating systems for tobacco. Furthermore, new horizons of crop protection have been opened by the development of seed treatment with neonicotinoids.

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Key products

Products	Year of developed	Companies	Turnover ( $ million)			Annual growing rate
			2003	2005	2007
imidacloprid	1984	Bayer CropScience	665	830	840	9.6
nitenpyram	1989	Sumitake	45	<10	<10	0.0
acetamiprid	1984	Nippon Soda	60	95	130	23.6
clothianidin	1996	Sumitake Bayer CropScience	<30	162	365	135.9
thiacloprid	1997	Bayer CropScience	<30	55	80	29.0
thiamethoxam	1998	Syngenta	215	359	455	26.4
dinotefuran	1998	Mitsui Chemicals	<30	40	60	23.4

Key Players

Companies	products	Active ingredients	Markets
ArmorTech	Guillotine	clothianidin	U.S
Gowan	Scorpion®35SL	dinotefuran	U.S
Valent	Belay	clothianidin	U.S
	Arena50WDG	clothianidin	Canada
	Clutch50WDG	clothianidin	Canada
PBI/Godon	ZYLAM 20SG	dinotefuran	U.S
DuPont	Assail	imidacloprid	U.S
Valent	Safari 20SG	dinotefuran	U.S
Syngenta	Actara,	thiamethoxam	U.S
	Platinum75SG	thiamethoxam	U.S
	Cruiser	thiamethoxam	Japan France U.S
	CruiserMaxx	thiamethoxam difenoconazole metalaxyl-M	Canada
	Voliam Flexi	Chlorantraniliprole thiamethoxam	U.S
	Cruiser OSR	Imidacloprid Cyfluthrin clothianidin	U.K Germany
FMC	Brigadier®	Imidacloprid bifenthrin	Japan
Bayer CropScience	Titan	clothianidin	Canada
	Concept	Imidacloprid deltamethrin	Canada

Patents being expired

Product Name	CAS No.	Trade names	Main markets	Patent Status
acetamiprid	135410-20-7	Mospilan, Assail, Gazel, Gazelle, Intruder, Profil, Tristar, Adjust, Epik , Rescate, Supreme	China, U.S, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, korea, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, Greece, Isreal, Poland and Romania etc.	expired in U.S and Austrilia, the UK SPC will be expired by 2015
thiacloprid	111988-49-9	Bariard, Calypso	U.K, U.S, Australia, France, Brazil, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland,Canada and Greece etc.	patents protected by 2015 in EU and by 2013 in U.S.
imidacloprid	138261-41-3	Advantage, Advocate, Hachikusan, Grubex, Imicide	Asutrilia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Korea, Spain and U.K.etc.	EU patent will be expired in 2012 and U.S patent will be expired in this year.
clothianidin	210880-92-5 (formerly 205510-53-8)	Dantotsu, Fullswing, Poncho, Clutch	Argentina, Australia,Austria, Brazil, Canada, Chile,France, U.K, Germany, U.Sand Italy etc.	Patent Status: UK SPCs will be expired by 2014, under protected in Austria, Canada, Germany, Hungary,US and other countires.

Interview

Interview: “Innovation and environment protection will boom our neonicotinoids”

Shandong Sino-Agri United Biotechnology Co., Ltd., subsidiary of China agricultural Materials Groups Shanghai branch, is an influential agrochemical producer and supplier in China. With the boom of the neonicotinoid insecticides in crop protection market, Sino-Agri has invested over 320 million Yuan on expanding and modernizing pipelines of neonicotinoids and related intermediates. Meanwhile, the company gives priorities to HSE by instilling advanced device on wastes treatment facilities as well as R&D’s on eco-friendly formulations. Read more

Brand Product

Belay Insecticide offers long-lasting control of yield-robbing pests in more than 140 crops, including pome fruit, grapes, peaches, soybeans and many vegetables. Belay controls pests such as stink bugs (including Brown Marmorated Stink Bugs, BMSB ), aphids, plant bugs (including Lygus), Colorado potato beetle, leafhoppers, pepper weevil and more. This third-generation neonicotinoid is readily translocated for optimum insect control.Read more>>

Suppliers & Products

Rudong zhongyi chemical co., ltd. thiacloprid thiamethoxam Wangs Crop Science Co.,Ltd. Imidacloprid 35%SC Acetamiprid 20%SL Krishi Rasayan Exports Pvt Ltd. Imidacloprid 17.8 SL Youngsun pesticide co., ltd Imidacloprid 75%WDG Acetamiprid 20%SP

Shanghai Mingdou Chemical Co., Ltd. Imidacloprid Shanghai Tenglong Agrochem Co., Ltd. Imidacloprid Anhui Xiangfeng Chemical Co., Ltd. Imidacloprid70ws Imidacloprid600FS Imidacloprid10%WP Imidacloprid Shandong Jingpeng Bio-pesticide Co.,Ltd. Clothianidin Nitenpyram Imidacloprid More >>

More>>Industry News

New products Bayer’s Concept insecticide approved against soy, potato pests in Canada ArmorTech introduces new insecticide Belay insecticide now registered in California Gowan’s Scorpion insecticide receives California registration Syngenta’s Cruiser 350 insecticide approved for use in France Gowan Introduces New Insecticide Scorpion 35SL Valent to launch two new insecticides Geddes Grant introduces Cruiser insecticide ZYLAM 20SG turf insecticide receives EPA registration Companies' news Bayer CropScience protecting against infringement on imidacloprid patent Mitsui Chemicals Agro targeting jumps in overseas sales

Applications DuPont insecticides Assail receive expanded labels FMC’s Brigadier® insecticide approved for at-plant use Safari Insecticide available for use on Hemlock Wooly Adelgid Syngenta Cruiser OSR seed treatment got label extension Valent Belay Insecticide receives aerial application approval in soybeans Label for Valent Professional Safari Insecticide in California expanded Valent Belay Insecticide Registered for Foliar Applications Regulations EPA issues FWP for registration review of imidacloprid Scientists seeking emergency OK from EPA to use stink bug pesticide in orchards in 7 states UK government adviser said to have ordered review of neonicotinoid insecticides but Defra denies this

The Neonicotinoid Insecticide Insight is abstracted from the Neonicotinod Insecticde Report 2010 published by Agchem Business Consulting. Inquiry for the report

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