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NOVEMBER 2015 47 The building houses five state-of- the-art production vessels ranging in capacity from 6200 litres to 75000 litres and 12 smaller inoculum ves- sels.The facility runs at full capacity year round. When youre producing an inert prod- uct like a chemistry you can standard- ize things. Here we have to remember we are always dealing with a living organism and a big part of our job is to make sure the grower gets a consist- ently-performing product based on a living organism Gowling says. Growing a Market The facility also represents the suc- cess of BASFs Functional Crop Care division formed in 2012 when BASF acquired Becker Underwood and with it the Littlehampton facility which first opened in 1996. Functional Crop Care serves as a global business unit providing bio- logical seed treatment seed enhance- ment and biological crop protection products. With those products getting more popular sales of more than 750million in 2020 are forecasted for Functional Crop Care a number of innovations are in the pipeline. They include biological insecticide Conveni and nitrification inhibitor Vizura. Its an opportune time to expand capacity at the Littlehampton plant according to Philipp Rosendorfer BASF Functional Crop Care vice-pres- ident of research and development. What a strong signal of success this is for our biological products says Rosendorfer adding that because both manufacturing and research and devel- opment take place at the Littlehampton site its the perfect hub for innovation in beneficial nematode and seed inoc- ulants. This expansion will clearly lead to a better market penetration and broaden our market base and this will feed back to our research people and offer a better understanding of market needs and develop additional market potential and that feeds back into the development of new products. Marc Zienkiewicz Graeme Gowling group leader of global biologicals marketing for BASF Functional Crop Care talks about how BASFs biological products work. PhotoMarcZienkiewicz. 70 experienced and fully trained inspectors locally located across Canada Nationwide leading provider of seed crop inspection VVisit www.cropinspect.ca for more information and to locate an inspector www.cropinspect.ca CropInspect was founded by to deliver dependable seed crop inspection services to the seed industry. Inspectors you Know Inspectors you Trust CROPINSPECT