{"id":4575,"date":"2016-05-01T14:59:28","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T04:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ppmmagazine.com.au\/?p=4575"},"modified":"2021-04-24T02:12:07","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T16:12:07","slug":"sherwood-opens-new-product-testing-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/professional-pest-manager-magazine\/sherwood-opens-new-product-testing-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"SHERWOOD OPENS NEW PRODUCT TESTING FACILITY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u00a0The opening of a new product testing facility heralds a new era of R&amp;D for product formulation specialist Sherwood Chemicals.<\/em><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"hr-thick\"><\/div>\n<p>As part of its ongoing research and development program, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sherwoodchemicals.com.au\/\">Sherwood Chemicals<\/a> has opened a new product performance testing centre to improve the development timeframe in screening new formulations for specialty markets.<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Ralph<\/strong>, managing director Sherwood Chemicals Australasia, commented on their new facility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur investment in this test facility is our commitment to moving forward as a formulation specialist, targeting niche markets like professional pest. Through the development of the test centre, we can screen and optimise product formulations in a shorter development cycle timeframe before commencing with independent trials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTargeting vector and structural pests such as mosquitoes, cockroaches and termites, we will ensure the pipeline of new innovative formulations will deliver sustainable benefits to users over the next two to five years.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4577\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4577\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4577\" src=\"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Sherwood-RD-lab-Pic1-gel-bait-copy-low-res-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Sherwood-RD-lab-Pic1-gel-bait-copy-low-res-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Sherwood-RD-lab-Pic1-gel-bait-copy-low-res.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4577\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cockroach gel bait trials<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A specialist team runs the test facility, which is situated inside the company\u2019s headquarters and manufacturing base in Bangkok, Thailand. Sherwood\u2019s product development director, Mr <strong>Pinyo Vititayanon<\/strong>, heads the\u00a0facility. Mr Vititayanon graduated\u00a0in entomology and was formerly employed at American Cyanamid and BASF, before joining Sherwood in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Mr <strong>Sukun Tanticharoenkiat<\/strong>, Sherwood Chemicals managing director, expanded on the role of this major new facility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is our aim to develop the most cost effective, high performance formulations for pest control and that objective can only be achieved by continuously improving our product offering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInvesting in a dedicated product testing facility is beneficial to both Sherwood and its customers. It means that we can work hand in hand with our formulation chemists to ensure that our current products are fit for purpose, whilst developing new products using the latest off-patent active ingredients and incorporating them into formulations specific to small markets like professional pest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ralph concluded, \u201cWith Sherwood\u2019s unique skills as a formulation specialist, focused on state-of-the-art formulation chemistry for small niche markets, we believe the resulting products will allow pest controllers to improve their service and create value, through improved performance and safety.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0The opening of a new product testing facility heralds a new era of R&amp;D for product formulation specialist Sherwood Chemicals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":4578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"\u00a0The opening of a new product testing facility heralds a new era of R&D for product formulation specialist Sherwood Chemicals.","_seopress_robots_index":"yes","_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"company":[131],"pest":[],"pesticide":[],"product-service":[],"class_list":["post-4575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-professional-pest-manager-magazine","company-sherwood","wpbf-post"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4575"},{"taxonomy":"company","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/company?post=4575"},{"taxonomy":"pest","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pest?post=4575"},{"taxonomy":"pesticide","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pesticide?post=4575"},{"taxonomy":"product-service","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product-service?post=4575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}