Monsanto first developed
Roundup in the 1970s

Roundup is the brand name of a systemic, broad-spectrum glyphosate-based herbicide originally produced by Monsanto, which Bayer acquired in 2018. Glyphosate is the most widely used herbicide in the United States. As of 2009, sales of Roundup herbicides still represented about 10 percent of Monsanto's revenue despite competition from Chinese producers of other glyphosate-based herbicides. The overall Roundup line of products, which includes genetically modified seeds, represented about half of Monsanto's yearly revenue. Monsanto developed and patented the glyphosate molecule in the 1970s, and marketed it as Roundup from 1973. It retained exclusive rights to glyphosate in the US until its US patent expired in September 2000; in other countries the patent expired earlier. The Roundup trademark is registered with the US Patent and Trademark Office and still extant.

Based in Dublin, our fully integrated site delivers registration, manufacturing & distribution throughout Europe and beyond. Although our main focus is glyphosate, we also specialise in a growing range of herbicides and fungicides for the broad-acre market. With glyphosate the backbone of our business, we constantly strive to develop our formulations to keep in line with demand from agriculture, amenity and home and garden markets.

70 years on the world markets.
We are the future.

CIECH Sarzyna is one of the key companies of the CIECH Group, and together with Proplan, it represents the AGRO business unit of the CIECH Group.

Located in the Podkarpackie Voivodeship, CIECH Sarzyna (previously Zakłady Chemiczne "Organika - Sarzyna") is one of the key companies of the CIECH Group and thus a base for the organic segment. The history of the company dates back to 1937.

CIECH Sarzyna specializes in the production of plant protection products (AGRO).