STAPHYT and AGROSTAT merge
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 Following more than ten years of collaboration, Staphyt, Agrostat Germany and Agrostat Poland have decided to merge their resources and to bring together their areas of work and expertise. Their complementary structures and their business strategies in Europe led the three companies to join forces in the Staphyt group.
Over a period of 20 years, Staphyt and Agrostat became European leaders in terms of quality, ability to respond to client needs/requirements and professionalism in the domain of agricultural research.
This merger reinforces the expertise required for both the management of your registration dossiers and the execution of your field programmes in Europe.
The teams that comprise Staphyt, Agrostat Germany and Agrostat Poland/ All the teams from STAPHYT, AGROSTAT and AGROSTAT POLAND will continue to work together to provide and execute outstanding services.
Head office in Germany |
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One Polish Base |
Agrostat is also expert in 91/414 registration dossiers in Germany and Poland. This skill is strategically very important because of Polish market growing perspective. Both company services will work jointly on regulatory affairs issues.
Today, Agrostat is staffed with 20 people in Germany and 10 in Poland.
Also, a representative office has been opened in Wien (Austria) in order to cover Austrian market.
Established in 1985, Agrostat became leader and worldwide recognised for its expertise and high quality equipment which allows to work in the best conditions and to respect the deadlines.
Also Agrostat’s expertise on hop makes them unavoidable CRO.
Silage trials |
Top technicity equipment for drilling |
Specific Application on hop |
For additional information : www.agrostat.de |
Geographical spread and I.T. means in EU
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 - Reinforcement of our position in Europe: All of our partners in Europe now use STAPHYT’s methods: multilingual IT tools, with intranet access in order to allow network communication more simple, more efficient and costless!
- Reinforcement of our IT tools: more and more clients are fully satisfied by the online form for quoting, online immediate result availability, PPP test item logistic, user platform (www.phytnet.com).
Our trial possibilities in EU (click on the map for more precision) :
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Agricola 2000 presentation
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 As all other European partners, Agricola 2000 is using the STAPHYT’s information tools.
Established in 1983, Agricola 2000 is a company which provides several services to growers and PPP/seeds industry. 12 people are involved in trial services. Agricola works on a large panel of crops such as rice, olives, citrus, in the following regions: Liguria, Piemonte, Lombardia, Veneto, Friuli, Trentino, Marche, Umbria, Emilia-Romagna, Toscana, Puglia, Basilicata e Calabria.
Agricola 2000 and Staphyt bring their mutual expertise. Agricola 2000 is using Staphyt IT tools. This partnership is profitable for both of us, including clients, at several levels:
- Time efficiency in internal management for pan EU studies
- Increasing reactivity (quotes, data process and transmission)
- Cost efficiency by avoiding duplicates tasks
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GLP accreditation
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 Last September, STAPHYT has been audited for GLP renewal. Bean and bumble bee testing received also the official recognition. The following areas are concerned:
o 6 : Residue studies
o 5 : Studies about the behaviour of pesticides in water, soil and air; bio-accumulation
o 9 : Other studies (applicator exposure, processing activities)
o 7 : Effect on mesocosms and wild ecosystems (beneficials, bees, bumble bees,...)
For 15 years, date of the first GLP recognition, STAPHYT gained a large expertise in this area and particularly in Multisite Pan EU studies. |
Partnership with Serge Barbieux for studies on vertebrates
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 A new area of expertise was added to Staphyt range of services through partnership established in July 2008 with Serge Barbieux Company: Field studies on vertebrates.
This service is in accordance with directives 91/414 EEC (plant protection products) and/or 98/8 CE (biocides).
Serge Barbieux and his team are expert in:
• Product development and innovative concepts
• Field trials conducted under GEP
• Registration dossier compilation (annex III)
• Technical expertise
• Scientific support
Serge Barbieux was established in 1996 and considered as an expert.
The two companies work together and bring each other their expertise using Staphyt IT means.
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Moving to a larger brand new field station in Burgundy
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Initially, established at Sainte Marie la Blanche (Center Burgundy), this station became too small for our increasing activities in this area.
This facility -recently built especially for trial purposes- is located in the East of Burgundy (North of Chalon region). This station is run by 8 agronomists and project managers.
As other field stations, this one is also connected to STAPHYT central server. For quick, secure and efficient communication between all people involved in all the studies.
This station is located in a representative farming area with key crops such as vineyard, black currant, oil seed rape and is also close to pastures from Jura area.
This relocation has been fully anticipated: a new irrigated vineyard for trial purpose has been planted sometimes ago. Nevertheless, the vineyard from previous location will continue to be used as a transition period.
New address:
STAPHYT BOURGOGNE
9 rue de la Maison Rose
Chaublanc
F- 71350 - St Gervais en Vallière
Tel : +33 (0) 3 85 91 92 86
Fax : +33 (0)3.85.91.88.57 |
New roles for STAPHYT Quality Unit
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Recent evolution and ISO 14001 policy have motivated Staphyt to reorganize its Quality unit creating new positions:
Catherine Bloy is appointed as Quality manager.
Mai Dao takes the responsibility of environmental aspects.
Yves Bonnave takes the responsibility of Health and Safety department.
Catherine Bloy |
Mai Dao |
Yves Bonnave |
These roles were existing already in the company but were not fully covered; it’s all done! |
STAPHYT celebrates its 20th birthday
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 STAPHYT is 20 years old and is now a reference in EU in the areas of plant health.
Year after year, we have widely invested in sustainable development and innovation (ISO 14001, IT, …)
“Acting for plant health” is now -on the occasion of our 20th birthday- our key-justification.
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Others areas of progress
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During 2008, Staphyt has progressed in many domains:
- ISO 14001 Accreditation : Another step towards Excellence and Sustainable Development, maintaining a flexible, open and clear organisation.
 - Acquisition of a new research facility in Southern France, near Montpellier (Marsillargues)
This newly acquired facility (early 2008) including 15 ha of planted crop, is located in the middle of a key agricultural area with various crops which are very representative of the South of Europe. The station called « La Paluzette » enables agronomists to carry out field trials on any crops such as vine, top fruits, arable crops, vegetables. They can also implement glasshouse trials and other controlled conditions studies.
- First season for 3 more field stations: Drome (Rhone valley), Landes (far south west) and Languedoc/Marsillargues.
 - OPerator EXposure studies: Large type of GLP studies has been carried out for OPEX purposes on grapes, alfalfa, banana (Martinique Island), using passive dosimetry techniques. |
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