Life Science
Sinochem Holdings’ life science business consists of agrochemicals and animal nutrition business.
Syngenta Group is one of the world’s biggest agricultural technology companies, with roots going back more than 250 years. With more than 57,000 employees, operating in more than 100 countries. In 2022, Syngenta Group posted $334 billion in sales. The company strives to transform food production through Regenerative Agriculture - a science-driven, technology-enabled approach to improve soil, deliver high productivity and high-quality food, help fight climate change and restore lost biodiversity. Syngenta Group, which is registered in Shanghai, China, and has its management headquarters in Switzerland, draws strength from its four business units: Syngenta Crop Protection, headquartered in Switzerland; Syngenta Seeds, headquartered in the United States; ADAMA?, headquartered in Israel; and Syngenta Group China. Together, these businesses provide industry-leading ways to serve customers around the world.
Among them, Syngenta Crop Protection and Syngenta Seeds are world-class agrochemical high-tech enterprises, comprising a comprehensive portfolio of world’s most advanced genomics, bioinformatics, crop transformation, marker-assisted breeding and patent pesticides development and formulation processing technology, and boasting a cumulative R&D investment of $14+ billion and 10,000+ patents in the past decade.
As the world’s leading off-patent crop protection player, ADAMA boasts the world’s richest portfolio of non-patent active ingredients, producing a wide range of crop protection products with unique mixtures.
Syngenta Group China manages all the Group’s crop protection, seed, crop nutrition and farmer service businesses in China. It ranks No. 1 in crop protection, crop nutrition and seed markets in China, and has become a leader in the country’s farmer service sector. It has established a prominent agricultural technology service platform called MAP (Modern Agriculture Platform) that operates through over 600 centers located nationwide, with a network of over 200 partners in its ecosystem. The main objective of MAP is to digitize and modernize agriculture, as well as to connect farmers with suppliers and customers.
In the animal nutrition market, Adisseo manufactures additives and nutritional solutions for animal feed. Methionine, vitamins and biological enzymes and other main products help upgrade feed supply in livestock and poultry farms around the world, providing better nutritional ingredients for animals to digest and grow. Furthermore, natural environment can be protected by reducing the waste generated from livestock and poultry farms. Adisseo ranks second in the global methionine market.