Envu is unveiling several initiatives at this year's GCSAA Conference and Show in its efforts to help superintendents produce healthier turf.
Aside from new product offerings at its booth (No. 2637), Envu will offer virtual tours, a chance to win on-site expert advice and the opportunity to enter for a chance to win a goose-chasing dog. The show is scheduled for Feb. 5-6 in San Diego.
Envu's Green Solutions Team will be on hand to help superintendents find plant-health solutions for their respective golf courses. Superintendents visiting the Envu booth can register for a chance to have one of those GST members conduct a site-visit for an in-depth analysis report and a personalized solutions plan for the winner.
Visitors to the Envu booth also can take a virtual tour of the company's facilities in North Carolina. That includes an inside look at Envu's product-development process at its facility in Morrisville and how products then go through testing at the research facility in Clayton that includes 10.5 acres of warm- and cool-season turf research plots, an 18-acre research golf course and a 1-acre putting green built to USGA specifications.
Envu also is sponsoring a dog giveaway at the show in conjunction with Fly Away Geese. Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, Fly Away Geese trains and provides goose-chasing border collies to golf courses, airports, businesses, corporations and military installations for humane and effective solutions to manage many types of birds, such as geese, ducks, seagulls, cormorants, coots and wading birds.
Envu launched in October 2022 out of the acquisition of Bayer Environmental Science by London-based private equity firm Cinven, and is a provider of chemical solutions for the professional turf market. In November, Envu (short for Environmental Science U.S.) finalized the acquisition of FMC's Global Specialty Solutions division of FMC that includes its golf turf business.
The company will introduce new additions to its portfolio at the show, including its lineup of products formerly under the FMC label.