Complexing Agents for the Manufacturing of Micronutrients

BTC Europe offers under the brand name Trilon® a broad product range of high performance and innovative complexing agents, also known as chelating agents. Chelating agents are able to complex metal ions. Thus they are used to produce micronutrients. Those produced micronutrients act as plant nutrition and provide healthy growth and yield of a plant. Trilon® products are ideal products for the manufacturing of micronutrients based on several metal ions, like iron (Fe), manganese (Mn), zinc (Zn), magnesium (Mg), copper (Cu) and further more metal ions. Besides the use of macroscopic fertilizers which are known as NPK-fertilizers the use of micronutrients is essential for a healthy growth of a plant.

High soluble micronutrients for plant nutrition are often produced by chelating agents. Established in the agricultural industry are micronutrients based on EDTA - ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid. Thus the Trilon® B grades are preferably used, either in acidic form or as a sodium salt. The new generation of chelating agents with improved ecological properties is represented by MGDA (methylglycine diacetic acid). MGDA can be used as single chelate or in combination with EDTA to produce agricultural micronutrient products.