The Scotts company splits its activities
into Consumer market and Professional market. The professional market is
called Professional Business Group (PBG) and operated world wide. Headquarters
and production facilities are in the Netherlands.
Scotts products are being sold in all
market segments
In 1987 a new technical department was
installed in order to develop products and markets outside the ornamental
sector
Scotts has more than 10 years experience
in oil palm fertilizer experiments and products
Characteristics
of resin coated controlled release
fertilizer.
Moisture from the air or
from the soil is penetrating the coating.
The nutrients are going into solution,
creating pressure inside the granule.
Because of this pressure and the osmotic characteristics of moisture in the soil, the nutrients become available for the plant
Resin coating was invented by Sierra Chemical Company and sold as
Osmocote
Poly-S coating was invented by Scotts and developed for the turf
market.
Swhen the two companies merged, product mixtures became possible