American Vanguard’s AMVAC Buys Four Syngenta Crop Protection Brands in the US

01 October 2026, Newport Beach, CA: American Vanguard Corporation announced on September 29, 2026 that its AMVAC Chemical Corporation subsidiary is acquiring the US end use product registrations and trademarks for four crop protection brands from Syngenta Crop Protection, in a deal the company expects will add more than seven million dollars in annual net sales.

The transaction covers Caparol, a residual herbicide used against broadleaf weeds and grasses in cotton, vegetables and peas, and in burndown tank mix programs; Evik, a herbicide used in sugarcane and pineapple production; Prime+, a plant growth regulator used for sucker control in tobacco; and Agri-Flex, an insecticide used in specialty crops, particularly Florida citrus, as part of integrated pest management rotations.

The deal is structured as an asset purchase. AMVAC is acquiring the US registrations and trademarks for the four brands rather than taking an equity stake in any Syngenta entity, and the registration transfer process between the two companies is still underway. Financial terms beyond the projected sales figure were not disclosed, and American Vanguard said it expects the acquisition to be accretive to earnings within a year and to have a positive effect on its leverage ratio.

Dak Kaye, chief executive of American Vanguard, said each of the four products holds a recognized position in its market and addresses needs that remain important to growers in those crops. The company said it will maintain product availability and customer service through the transition period while registrations move from Syngenta to AMVAC.

The acquisition fits into American Vanguard’s publicly stated growth targets of 100 million dollars in new product sales by 2030 and 600 million dollars in annualized sales by the end of 2028. Buying established, already registered brands rather than developing new active ingredients from scratch is a faster route to incremental sales, since the products already carry EPA registrations and established grower relationships in their respective crops.

For Syngenta, the sale is a small scale portfolio pruning move, shedding niche, regionally concentrated products such as a sugarcane and pineapple herbicide and a tobacco sucker control agent that sit outside its larger row crop and global brand priorities. Divestitures of this kind have become more common among the largest crop protection companies as they concentrate resources on higher volume molecules and newer chemistry platforms while trimming smaller legacy lines that still have loyal regional followings but limited growth potential on their own.

For American Vanguard, a mid sized US focused crop protection company, the deal adds immediate, already revenue generating products to its portfolio in corn belt, southern row crop, tobacco and Florida citrus growing regions, diversifying a book of business that has otherwise leaned on its existing insecticide and nematicide lines. The transaction has not yet closed pending completion of the registration transfer process with the US Environmental Protection Agency and the relevant state regulators, a routine but sometimes lengthy administrative step for agrochemical ownership changes.

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