A new company called Advan LLC will distribute Surround (kaolin) crop protectant in specialty agriculture markets in the United States. Engelhard Corporation, which manufactures Surround, announced that sales forces from the two companies will join forces to form a single Advan sales team to sell both Surround and Advan products. Advan was formed in August 2005 by Mitsui and Company of Japan and the Sipcam-Oxon Groups of Italy. It has agreements with Certis USA, Sipcam Agro USA, and Mitsui Chemical, Inc., to market a range of insecticides, fungicides, and soil fumigants in the United States and Mexico. Peter Barrows, Engelhard’s […]