BENEFITS of proteris adjuvants
Environmental Responsibility
Every dollar your growers invest in their crop should be put to work!
The addition of an adjuvant can enhance the efficacy of an active ingredient. Additionally, if the active ingredient does not reach its target it can be wasted, and so is your investment.
Overcome Barriers
Without a drift and deposition adjuvant, many active ingredients may never get the chance to do what they were made to do. Proteris drift and deposition adjuvants help overcome barriers that interfere with active ingredients reaching their intended destination. They also provide better spray quality and absorption and more droplets on target resulting in a more efficient use of crop protection products and less investment wasted. For example, Adding Proteris Arvum Ultra to most tank mixes maximizes the placement of the products protecting the target crop while increasing profits.
Residual Active Ingredient in the Tank?
Proteris Compatibility Agent maximizes the amount of active ingredient that is suspended in the tank mixture, instead of on the walls of the tank, booms, or valves.
Proteris Tank Cleaner dramatically decreases the amount of active ingredient that could remain in the tank walls, valves, boom lines, and spray nozzles thereby reducing the risk of future tank mix contamination.
why does npe/ape free matter?
Nonylphenol Ethoxylates
Nonylphenol ethoxylates (NPE) belong to the larger class of surfactant compounds known as alkylphenol ethoxylates (APE). NPEs have been used for over 40 years in both pesticide and adjuvant formulations and are considered “work horse” surfactants due to their high technical efficacy and cost-effectiveness. In the crop protection industry, NPEs can be found in ordinary nonionic surfactant formulations as well as the emulsifier systems used in methylated seed oils (MSO), high-surfactant methylated seed oils (HS-MSO), crop oil concentrates (COC) and high-surfactant oil concentrates (HSOC).
NPEs also have characteristics that may be considered as endocrine disruptors in animals, reptiles, and fish. This has led to NPEs being banned in many countries. While not banned in the United States, the ability to find high quality, highly efficacious NPE replacement formulations allow for use in and around aquatic settings like the lakes we all enjoy in the Midwest, while not causing potential harm.
Additionally, in 2007 a phenomenon was noted in some corn fields where ears failed to properly develop after a post emergence application of fungicide. This phenomenon was later termed as Arrested Ear (AE) and linked to the use of adjuvants containing an APE component in their formulation when applied between the V10 to V16 growth stages. Proteris Arvum Ultra is labeled for the use with fungicides at all growth stages while improving deposition up to 25%, compared to spraying the fungicide only.
NPE/APE Free Proteris Adjuvants
Titan Pro is committed to offering this unique adjuvant platform that delivers higher levels of performance than many leading adjuvants while protecting both crops and the environment from any potential risks associated with NPE/APE containing chemistries.
why cpda certification?
Surfactant Concentrations Explained
Many surfactants on the market today are described on their label as either a 90:10 or 80:20 surfactant. Customers may assume a “90:10” formulation means 90% surfactant concentration and an “80:20” formulation means 80% surfactant concentration when in reality, this assumption could be false. In some cases, these formulations with references to a “90” or even “100” in the product name could be less than 25% actual surfactant load and may not exceed 50% total functioning agents.
CPDA Certification
CPDA certification includes rigorous testing requirements and ensures that customers receive the actual level of “activity” or functionality and surfactancy that is claimed on the label from CPDA certified NIS products. NIS products were used as the example above, but CPDA also has certifications for oils, drift reduction agents, activators, and compatibility agents.
CPDA Certified Proteris Adjuvants
In the case of Proteris Arvum, the label will list both nonionic surfactant and humectants as functionality in the descriptor under the product name and identify those components in the principal functioning agents. The total of all functionality/active ingredients content of Proteris Arvum is 93% while the actual surfactant load is 83%. This makes Proteris Arvum one of the highest functional surfactant formulations on the market. In the world of 90:10 classification, at 93% active, Proteris Arvum is higher in both total functional activity and surfactant load compared to ordinary 90:10 surfactants.
All Proteris adjuvants are CPDA certified to support Titan Pro’s standards of quality, efficacy, and stewardship. (The only exceptions are Proteris Tank Cleaner and Proteris Defoamer/Antifoam as there is not currently a CPDA classification of standards for those classes of products).