Profile completes plant upgrades
Profile Products recently completed the final phase of a yearlong upgrade to processing equipment at its manufacturing facility in Blue Mountain, Miss.
This investment allows for expansion of production capacity for its line of erosion control products for the sports turf, golf and agriculture markets.
Earlier this year, the company launched an online video resource library at Profileevs.com that includes product demonstrations, application instruction guides and technical video segments.
Deere expands distributor network
John Deere has added two distributors to its nationwide network of suppliers for professional turfgrass managers.
Potestio Brothers, already a John Deere Gold Star Dealer, will support golf courses in Colorado golf courses. The distributor has made significant investments in parts staff, as well as six mobile service vehicles.
Belkorp Ag, LLC will now serve the California region with its acquisition of former John Deere dealer Mid-Cal Tractor. With the acquisition Belkorp now has eight locations throughout the Central Valley and the North Coast regions, and Mid-Cal's golf staff will now be a part of the Belkorp team. Belkorp owns Big Sky Golf Course in British Columbia.
Underhill to acquire KALO
Underhill International has entered a partnership agreement with KALO, a supplier of adjuvants and surfactants for professional turf managers.
KALO turf and ornamental products will be sold and marketed exclusively by Underhill International under the co-branding agreement.
Founded in 1932 and based in Overland Park, Kan., KALO has been a pioneer in the development of water management soil wetting agents, tank mix adjuvants, water-conditioning agents, as well as other specialty products for turf and agriculture.
Valent names two territory managers
Valent Professional Products recently named Jim Crockett and Nancy Voorhees as territory managers for the company's Southeastern and Western regions, respectively.
Crockett, who will be based in Auburn, Ala., will be responsible for Valent's Southeastern region, which comprises Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee and the Florida Panhandle.
He most recently served as a horticulturist at Auburn University and has worked in a leadership capacity at a number of major turf and ornamental companies during his career. He was vice president of operations at Color Spot Nurseries, the largest nursery in the United States, and national sales manager and director of horticultural sales for Cleary Chemical Corp.
Voorhees will be based in Half Moon Bay, Calif., and cover the Western region of Arizona, California, Hawaii and Nevada.
She spent the past 24 years with Target Specialty Products as a distributor sales representative and, most recently, as the company's landscape business manager.
For more information about Valent products and regions, visit www.valentpro.com.
Winfield buying Matrix Turf
Winfield Solutions LLC has entered into a purchase agreement to acquire assets of Matrix Turf Solutions LLC.
Winfield has a portfolio that includes fertilizers, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, wetting agents, colorants and seed. Matrix Solutions, which is based in Syracuse, N.Y., offers a similar portfolio that includes aquatics management, erosion control and soil conditioning products.
WinField has 80 service centers across the country and more than 75 sales representatives in golf course management, lawn and sports turf management, pest control, aquatics, ornamental and vegetative management markets.
WinField also recently announced it has entered into a purchase agreement for the acquisition of the professional products business assets and inventory of Wilco-WinField JV, which primarily services the turf and ornamental segments in the Pacific Northwest.
Both acquisitions are scheduled to be complete by September 30.