Bayer CropScience Seeds Innovation Center Ribbon Cutting
Bayer CropScience Seeds Innovation Center
A ribbon cutting will be held for the opening of the new Bayer CropScience Seeds Innovation Center, a $16 million, 100,000-square-foot facility that will host the company’s global cotton business operations and facilities, including laboratories and a 50,000-square-foot greenhouse supporting its cotton, soybean and canola research.
The opening of the Seeds Innovation Center is another significant milestone in the long-term collaboration between Texas Tech and Bayer CropScience. One of the nation’s leading agricultural research companies, Bayer CropScience is dedicated to improving yields, protecting crops from disease and pests and maintaining a healthy environment through innovative solutions.
The Bayer CropScience Seeds Innovation Center is dedicated to enhancing and ensuring the growth of the cotton industry through various products and solutions. Lubbock serves as Bayer’s global cottonseed headquarters. Among the Bayer facilities around Lubbock are a seed processing plant and seed warehouse, quality control and research and development laboratories and a cotton breeding station.
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
10:00 a.m. CST
Bayer CropScience Seeds Innovation Center
3316 Ninth St. (North side of Marsha Sharp Freeway)
Texas Tech University
Event speakers:
- Texas Tech University System Chancellor Robert Duncan
- Texas Tech University President M. Duane Nellis
- Bayer CropScience president and CEO Jim Blome
- Bayer CropScience global head of seeds Frank Terhorst
- Bayer CropScience global head of R&D Adrian Percy
- State Sen. Charles Perry
After the ribbon cutting, VIP, media and public tours of the new facility will be available.
About Bayer CropScience
Bayer is a global enterprise with core competencies in the fields of health care,
agriculture and high-tech materials. Bayer CropScience, the subgroup of Bayer AG responsible
for the agricultural business, has annual sales of EUR 9,494 million (2014) and is
one of the world’s leading innovative crop science companies in the areas of seeds,
crop protection and non-agricultural pest control. The company offers an outstanding
range of products including high value seeds, innovative crop protection solutions
based on chemical and biological modes of action as well as an extensive service backup
for modern, sustainable agriculture. In the area of non-agricultural applications,
Bayer CropScience has a broad portfolio of products and services to control pests
from home and garden to forestry applications. The company has a global workforce
of 23,100 and is represented in more than 120 countries. This and further news is
available at: www.press.bayercropscience.com.