Mancozeb Formulations for Importers: WP Supply and Cymoxanil Mixtures

Mancozeb Formulations for Importers: WP Supply and Cymoxanil Mixtures

This guide explains how professional buyers can compare mancozeb formulations and mixtures before shortlisting suppliers. It is an educational sourcing resource, not an application recommendation, product label or legal opinion. Product approval, label directions and commercial legality must always be verified for the destination jurisdiction.

Mancozeb is a dithiocarbamate fungicide classified by FRAC as a multi-site contact active (group M03). Multi-site chemistry carries low resistance risk, which is why mancozeb has historically anchored many spray programmes as a protectant partner. Its regulatory position is divided, however: some jurisdictions have withdrawn approvals while large registered markets remain, so confirm the destination position before comparing offers.

Straight WP configuration

Averstar lists straight mancozeb as Mancozeb 80% WP, the reference high-load powder for protectant programmes.

Mancozeb is a volume product: programmes use it at comparatively high rates, so freight, packaging and shelf life dominate landed cost more than for low-rate actives. Compare offers on wettability and suspensibility from the specification, confirm moisture-protective packaging, and check the declared storage life — dithiocarbamate quality degrades with poor storage, and a cheap offer with a short remaining shelf life is not cheap.

Cymoxanil mixtures for downy mildew and late blight programmes

Averstar lists two loadings of the same pairing: Mancozeb + Cymoxanil 64% / 8% WP and Cymoxanil + Mancozeb 8% / 64% WP, which combine the multi-site protectant with a penetrant partner from a different FRAC group, a combination widely requested for downy mildew and late blight programmes.

For any mixture, every active ingredient must be acceptable in the destination market and the mixture itself normally needs its own registration. Confirm maximum residue limits for both components in the destination market — protectant programmes on fresh produce are residue-sensitive, and the exporting grower’s market may be stricter than the country of application.

Packaging, shipment and sample planning

WP configurations ship in bags or drums with moisture protection inside export cartons, and bulk programmes often negotiate 25 kg industrial packaging alongside retail co-packs. Ask each supplier to state packaging materials, net contents per unit and the export carton configuration on the quotation, and confirm that proposed retail pack sizes are acceptable under destination labelling rules before artwork is prepared.

When samples are needed for registration or laboratory verification, agree in writing what the sample represents: the batch, the formulation version and the specification revision. A sample drawn from a pilot batch does not prove that commercial shipments will match, so tie the commercial contract to the certificate of analysis of each shipped batch rather than to the sample alone.

Documents to request before shortlisting

An evidence-led comparison needs the same document set from every candidate supplier: the certificate of analysis, the proposed or registered label, the safety data sheet, the product specification, packaging details and the manufacturing-site identity. Ask for the version and date of each document, and keep the records together so that differences between a quotation, a label and a technical sheet can be resolved before commercial commitments are made.

For adjacent reading, see the fungicide formulation questions guide for importers and the crop disease-control product brief.

Registration and residue references

Use the FAO pest and pesticide management resources for framework guidance and the Codex pesticide residues database for internationally referenced maximum residue limits, then confirm current national decisions with the destination authority. Nothing in this guide replaces the registered label or local regulatory advice.

Compare Averstar mancozeb products

Averstar supplies the mancozeb configurations linked above with COA, SDS, label and registration documentation support. Browse the fungicides category to compare actives and formulations, and use the quotation form on any product page to confirm current MOQ, packaging options, documents and delivery terms for your destination market.