Sipcam Oxon

Sipcam Oxon is an Italian agrotechnology company whose origins date to 1946, when Emilio Gagliardini and Professor Baldo Ciocca founded Sipcam as a business specialising in the production and marketing of agricultural chemicals. The company describes its work as supporting farmers and agricultural production with solutions intended to respect land, growers and consumers. Its activities combine expertise in synthesising active ingredients with formulation and registration capabilities for finished products. The company’s stated product and business scope includes chemical intermediates, pesticides, biologicals, biostimulants, plant-growth regulators, fertilisers and seeds. Its current product areas include plant protection, biostimulants and biorationals, and plant nutrition. It also provides industrial services and tailor-made production, including toll manufacturing. Sipcam Oxon presents its offer as spanning laboratory-to-field activity, with a range of active ingredients and formulations. Its seed business includes the production, processing and packaging of soybean, corn, sunflower and protein-pea seeds, mainly for the Italian market. The company highlights soybean varieties and seed treatment through its OPTIMAX technology. Sipcam Oxon states that it is privately held and independent, and presents its ownership model as integrating shareholders with trusted managers. Its official history names the Gagliardini and Ciocca families among shareholders associated with the company’s 2018 combination. The group reports a global presence through factories, commercial subsidiaries and joint ventures; its “Who we are” page describes a network of 24 offices and nine production plants. Its industrial services are mainly based in Europe, according to the homepage. The business has developed from its post-war Italian agricultural-chemicals roots into a group operating internationally across agrotechnology. Sipcam and Oxon became a single company in 2018. Sipcam Oxon’s stated mission is to be among the top 15 global players in the development, production and marketing of agrotechnology. Its stated vision focuses on helping growers produce food effectively, efficiently and in an environmentally friendly way through sustainable and innovative solutions. The company also participates in innovation initiatives beyond its core products, including Novagria Ventures, which it describes as a venture-building initiative for Italy’s agri-food value chain.

Sipcam Oxon traces its origins to Sipcam, founded in Italy in 1946 by Emilio Gagliardini and Professor Baldo Ciocca. The company’s official history says Sipcam began as a business specialising in the production and marketing of chemical products for agriculture. It describes responsibility as a guiding value from the outset, and says its agricultural solutions are intended to support production while respecting land, the people who cultivate it and consumers. The company also highlights its early manufacturing capabilities, including producing components used in its plant machinery. A second major strand of the company’s history began in 1970. According to its official story, Emilio Gagliardini’s son Giorgio took over from his father and founded Oxon, with the aim of developing and synthesising active ingredients. This added a dedicated active-ingredient development and synthesis activity alongside Sipcam’s agricultural-chemicals business. The official company account says the group began its internationalisation process in the 1970s. It describes expansion as supported through self-financing instruments and bank loans, with the stated goal of creating stability and sound medium- and long-term prospects. The group later developed an international presence through factories, commercial subsidiaries and joint ventures. Its current corporate materials describe an operating network of 24 offices and nine production plants, while the homepage refers to industrial services and tailor-made production, principally based in Europe. Sipcam’s business has broadened beyond chemical crop-protection products. The company says its activities include chemical intermediates, pesticides, biologicals, biostimulants, plant-growth regulators, fertilisers and seeds. It presents its capabilities as integrating active-ingredient synthesis with formulation and registration of finished products. Its current product structure includes plant protection, biostimulants and biorationals, and plant nutrition. It also describes industrial services and toll manufacturing as part of its offer. The company expanded into seed production, processing and packaging, including soybean, corn, sunflower and protein pea, with this activity mainly serving the Italian market. In connection with sustainable and non-GMO soy production, the company says it signed the European Soya Declaration with Soia Italia on 17 July 2017. It also describes OPTIMAX-treated seed as combining rhizobia, lipo-chito-oligosaccharides and penicilli to support nodulation and biological nitrogen fixation. In 2018, Sipcam and Oxon became a single company, according to the official history. The company describes the combined business as led by a new generation of the Gagliardini and Ciocca families. It continues to present itself as private and independent, with shareholder participation and trusted managers as part of its governance model. Its stated mission is to be among the top 15 global players in agrotechnology development, production and marketing. Its stated vision is to help meet food needs by supporting effective, efficient and environmentally friendly production through sustainable and innovative solutions. The company also identifies Novagria Ventures as an initiative to promote innovation and entrepreneurship within Italy’s agri-food value chain.

• 2018

  Sipcam and Oxon become one company

• 2017

  European Soya Declaration

• 1970

  Oxon founded

• 1946

  Sipcam founded in Italy

An independent Italian agrotechnology group combining active-ingredient synthesis, formulation, product registration, seed activities and industrial services, with a stated focus on sustainable agricultural productivity.

• Plant Protection

  Products to protect crops from biotic threats, including active ingredients and formulations.

• Biostimulants & Biorationals

  Products developed to improve natural plant processes such as nutrient uptake, tolerance to abiotic stresses and crop quality.

• Plant Nutrition

  Products, mainly of natural origin, intended to nourish plants and support growth.

• Seeds and OPTIMAX

  Seed production includes soybean, corn, sunflower and protein pea; OPTIMAX is described for treated seed, including soybean.

• Industrial services

  Toll manufacturing and tailor-made production based on industrial presence and process expertise.

• Maintaining private independenceOther

1. 1SIPCAM OXON - Supporting Agriculturesipcam-oxon.com
2. 2Our story - SIPCAM OXONsipcam-oxon.com
3. 3Supporting farmers since 1946 - SIPCAM OXONsipcam-oxon.com
4. 4Seeds - SIPCAM OXONsipcam-oxon.com