Incotec history

1978 Start Incotec USA Incotec’s first North American production facility is started in Salinas, California as a pelleting department of - what was then still called - Royal Sluis America.

1999 Start Incotec Brazil Growing popularity of Incotec’s upgrading and pelleting techniques in Brazil, combined with stricter and more complicated import procedures results in setting up an Incotec branch in Brazil.

2004 Start Incotec Australia Incotec Australia offers a range of seed technologies and enhancement products to the Australian seed market.

2008 X ray selection tomato seeds The first commercial upgrading treatment based on the principle of X-ray imaging becomes available.

2012 Acquisition Landec Ag With the acquisition of Landec Ag LLC (a developer and producer of functionalized polymer coatings for the seed industry) Incotec focuses on its increasing presence in field crops in North America.

2014 Start Incotec Argentina Due to Incotec’s strongly growing business in Argentina a subsidiary is opened in Buenos Aires to better serve the market, focusing on the production and sale of sophisticated coatings for broad acre crops to the local seed industry.

Incotec Japan is started (closed in 2017). Initially to meet the demand from Japanese seed companies who are not willing to send their seed to Europe.

2018 Reopening Incotec China New facilities for pelleting and encrusting become operational expanding Incotec’s capacity in Tianjin as well as a new office and new R&D centre in Beijing.