The company "August" in 2022 put into production a record number of new drugs - 14 items at once. Among the new products are products for the agro-industrial complex and private farms: herbicides, fungicides, insecticides and seed dressings, as well as a pigment additive for seed dressing.
JSC Firm "August" in 2022 expanded the range of products manufactured at the company's factories by 14 drugs at once. These are the herbicides Centaur, VDG (for wheat), Nexus, BP (for soybeans) and Odyssey, VGR (for soybeans and sunflower). Also, the assortment was replenished with fungicides Cobalt, KME, Hecate, KME, Libertador, SK, Euclid, SK, insecticides Scutum, SK, Stiletto, MD, seed disinfectant Baisad, VSK. Among other things, the Koller, SK tool appeared in the line - pigment additive for seed dressing. The list of preparations for personal subsidiary plots was replenished with the herbicide for lawns "Gel-Deimos", the preparation against mosses and lichens "Mohoff", MKE, and the production of an anti-ant agent "Anteater Super Gel" was also mastered.
As August specialists note, in 2022, manufacturers of chemical plant protection products managed to provide farmers with the necessary products and avoid a shortage of certain drugs. The most traditionally used weed control agent in Russia is herbicides, but the need for fungicides and insecticides is also increasing as farmers move from their situational use, when an outbreak of disease or pest activity has already begun, to systemic, preventive use.
“The development paradigm of the Avgust company, which implies the registration of an increasing number of drugs with new combinations of active ingredients and in new formulations that are more effective in composition, remains relevant for us,” says Mikhail Danilov, General Director of JSC Firma August. – At the same time, today the situation in the field of the domestic chemical industry is changing dramatically: there are prospects not only for creating new formulations based on ready-made components, but also for the synthesis of active substances - a key raw material for the manufacture of pesticides. So, "August" in China already has its own production facilities for the synthesis of active substances that are supplied to Russia. This is the August-Hubei plant, now it produces 5 types of active ingredients for pesticides, and in the future there will be more than 30. It would probably be cheaper and easier to build such an enterprise in our country than in China, since administrative barriers for producers. However, the main obstacle at the time of the plant's creation was the lack of low- and medium-tonnage chemistry products in Russia required for the synthesis of active substances, since it is impossible to obtain the molecules we need directly from oil, gas and water. But at present, both specialized companies and businesses not related to the chemical industry, which simply have the opportunity to invest in it, are showing increased interest in the synthesis of the necessary intermediates in Russia. And I think that the creation of our own active substances within the country is a matter of tomorrow, especially if a competent state policy is pursued in this area for the infrastructural design of the relevant industrial zones and the provision of long-term money.”
"August" is already considering development projects in this direction. So, today the company is building its own research center in the city of Chernogolovka near Moscow, where not only the creation and research of formulations of pesticides will be carried out, but also the development of technology for obtaining active substances.