Bayer is aiming to consolidate its leading position in the global pest control market. To this end, the company has invested roughly EUR 45 million in the construction of an approximately 11,000 m2 greenhouse at its Monheim site with an adjoining laboratory and office building for insecticide research.
Bayer is aiming to consolidate its leading position in the global pest control market. To this end, the company has invested roughly EUR 45 million in the construction of an approximately 11,000 m2 greenhouse at its Monheim site with an adjoining laboratory and office building for insecticide research.
“The new building will help us overcome one of the fundamental challenges of our times: safeguarding the global supply of food,” said Dr. Dirk Backhaus, head of Product Supply and member of the Executive Committee of Bayer’s Crop Science Division, at the inauguration celebration on January 8 which was attended by 50 invited guests and roughly 150 employees. “This greenhouse could have been built anywhere in the world. But Germany has substantial advantages as a location: diverse, sustainable agriculture, a high level of education, and a solid knowledge base as well as being attractively situated in a dynamic European environment,” noted Backhaus. As such, this investment also reflects Bayer’s commitment to the innovative capacity of Europe, Germany, and specifically to the Monheim research site in North Rhine-Westphalia.
The construction of the new greenhouse is Bayer’s largest single project in Monheim in an investment program that has totaled around EUR 170 million over the past six years. Aside from new investments, key elements of the growth strategy for Crop Science include the modernization and targeted expansion of the existing research infrastructure.
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