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BASF announces Alpine® WSG Water Soluble Granule Insecticide
ST. LOUIS, MO, October 17, 2012 -- BASF today announced the introduction of Alpine® WSG Water Soluble Granule Insecticide, which offers pest management professionals (PMPs) an efficacious product option with a flexible label that allows for both inside and outside use and a wide range of rates.
Alpine® WSG Water Soluble Granule Insecticide is proven to control some of the most common insect pests, including ants, bed bugs, fleas, house flies and German cockroaches. Application include sites: attics, eaves and soffits, hard surfaces (e.g., sidewalks and driveways), siding, indoors to flea infested or potentially infested areas (e.g., rugs, pet beds or floors), or outside in yards for ants and fleas.
Alpine® WSG Water Soluble Granule Insecticide is also easy-to-use. It mixes into a clear, odorless solution that doesn’t stain. Once mixed, it stays suspended and won’t clog equipment.
The Alpine family of products includes Prescription Treatment® brands: Alpine® Flea Insecticide with IGR,Alpine® Dust Insecticide,Alpine® Cockroach Gel Bait, Alpine® Pressurized Insecticideand Alpine® Ant and Termite Foam. All Alpine formulations contain the active ingredient dinotefuran, which has been granted reduced-risk status for public health use by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Visit www.pestcontrol.basf.us to learn more about Alpine® WSG Water Soluble
Granule Insecticide or contact your BASF Pest Control Solutions sales specialist.
About the Crop Protection division
With sales of € 4.1 billion in 2011, BASF’s Crop Protection division is a leader in crop protection and a strong partner to the farming industry providing well/established and innovative fungicides, insecticides and herbicides. Farmers use these products and services to improve crop yields and crop quality. Other uses include public health, structural/urban pest control, turf and ornamental plants, vegetation management, and forestry. BASF aims to turn knowledge rapidly into market success. The vision of BASF’s Crop Protection division is to be the world’s leading innovator, optimizing agricultural production, improving nutrition, and thus enhancing the quality of life for a growing world population. Further information can be found on the web at www.agro.basf.com or follow us on twitter: www.twitter.com/basfagro.
BASF – The Chemical Company
BASF Corporation, headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey, is the North American affiliate of BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, Germany. BASF has more than 16,000 employees in North America, and had sales of $20 billion in 2011. For more information about BASF’s North American operations, visit www.basf.us.
BASF is the world’s leading chemical company: The Chemical Company. Its portfolio ranges from chemicals, plastics, performance products and crop protection products to oil and gas. We combine economic success, social responsibility and environmental protection. Through science and innovation we enable our customers in almost all industries to meet the current and future needs of society. Our products and system solutions contribute to conserving resources, ensuring healthy food and nutrition and helping to improve the quality of life. We have summed up this contribution in our corporate purpose: We create chemistry for a sustainable future. BASF posted sales of about €73.5 billion in 2011 and had more than 111,000employees as of the end of the year. Further information on BASF is available on the Internet at www.basf.com.
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Alpine is a registered trademark of BASF. Prescription Treatment is a registered trademark of Whitmire Microgen.
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