Marbar Chimie

What Marbar Chimie does

Marbar Chimie S.A. is a Moroccan agricultural inputs distributor and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Groupe Marbar S.A., founded in 1976 and headquartered in Casablanca. The company commercializes and distributes a portfolio of approximately 29 phytopharmaceutical and plant nutrition products organized into four categories: fungicides (8 products including AMISTAR, ORTIVA, CHORUS, CIDELY TOP, COPERNICO, CAPTANE, PROLECTUS, and EMERALD), herbicides (5 products including DUAL GOLD, SELECT SUPER, LUMAX, FUSILADE FORTE, and VOLCANO), insecticides/acaricides (10 products including KARATE, PLATINUM, TAKUMI, PIRIMOR, MASAMITE, ADMIRAL, APPLAUD, BRIGADA GEO, ACTELLIC, and ARVILMEC), and fertilizers, biostimulants, and plant growth regulators (6 products including SOLUBOR, SIAPTON, PROMALIN, FAST FRUIT, and BERELEX). These products are sourced from at least 12 global agriscience principals — Syngenta, FMC, UPL, Sumitomo Chemical, Nihon Nohyaku, Nufarm, Cheminova, Belchim, ISAGRO, Nordox, Safa Tarim, and Albaugh — and address crop protection and nutrition needs across more than 50 Moroccan crop categories including cereals, vegetables, sugar beet, citrus, fruit trees, and vineyards.

The company operates a dual go-to-market combining a national network of distributors and resellers with a direct technical field force of approximately 100 collaborators, including agronomists and agricultural engineers who provide on-the-ground application guidance and crop-specific recommendations to farmers. Marbar Chimie maintains regional offices in Casablanca (headquarters), Marrakech, and Ait Melloul to serve Morocco's principal farming regions, and supplements its physical channel with an e-commerce-enabled company website (marbarchimie.ma) offering direct online ordering. A wholly-owned adjacent subsidiary, Marphyt, extends the group's phytopharmaceutical distribution footprint.

Revenue is generated through one-time product sales of crop protection and plant nutrition inputs to Moroccan distributors, resellers, and farmers; pricing is not publicly disclosed and requires direct inquiry. The company is privately held with no external institutional investment, no public listing, and no disclosed revenue figures. No AI, digital advisory, or software-platform components are indicated in the operating model.

Name

Marbar Chimie

Legal name

Marbar Chimie S.A.

Website

https://marbarchimie.ma

Company type

Private

Founded year

1976

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Marbar Chimie is a Moroccan agricultural inputs distributor, founded in 1976 and subsidiary of Groupe Marbar S.A., that commercializes and distributes a 29-product portfolio of crop protection and plant nutrition solutions (fungicides, herbicides, insecticides, fertilizers) to Moroccan farmers through a national distributor network and a technical field force of ~100 agronomists and technicians.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Agricultural Crop Protection Products

NAICS

Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesalers (42491)

SIC

Agricultural Chemicals (2870), Agricultural Services (700)

akta.pro primary industry

Crop Protection Product Retail (Herbicides/Insecticides/Fungicides) (AFABAJAE)

Keywords

• Crop protection products
• Agricultural inputs distribution
• Phytopharmaceutical products
• Plant nutrition solutions
• Moroccan agriculture supplies

Headquarters

HQ city

Casablanca

HQ country

Morocco

HQ region

Africa

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Crop Protection Products Distribution: Commercialization and distribution of a broad range of phytopharmaceutical specialties adapted to combat numerous crop pests, including fungicides, herbicides, insecticides, and fertilizers. Revenue is generated through direct sales to distributors and agricultural farmers across Morocco.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Marbar Chimie commercializes and distributes a comprehensive portfolio of phytopharmaceutical specialties (fungicides, herbicides, insecticides, and acaricides) and plant nutrition solutions (fertilizers, biostimulants, and plant growth regulators) for Moroccan agriculture. Products are sourced from global agriscience manufacturers and adapted to combat crop pests and diseases across key Moroccan crops including cereals, market gardening vegetables, sugar beet, citrus, fruit trees, and vineyards. Sales occur through a national network of distributors and resellers as well as direct engagement with farmers via regional agronomist and agricultural technician teams.

Product overview

Marbar Chimie is a Moroccan agricultural inputs distributor offering a comprehensive portfolio of crop protection and nutrition products organized into four main categories: Fongicides (fungicides including AMISTAR, ORTIVA, PROLECTUS, CHORUS, CIDELY TOP, COPERNICO, CAPTANE, and EMERALD for disease control), Herbicides (including DUAL GOLD, SELECT SUPER, LUMAX, FUSILADE FORTE, and VOLCANO for weed management), Insecticides/Acaricides (including KARATE, PLATINUM, TAKUMI, PIRIMOR, MASAMITE, ADMIRAL, APPLAUD, BRIGADA GEO, ACTELLIC, and ARVILMEC for pest control), and Divers et Fertilisants (fertilizers and plant growth regulators including SOLUBOR, SIAPTON, PROMALIN, FAST FRUIT, and BERELEX). The company serves Moroccan agriculture through distribution of these products for key crops including cereals, vegetables, sugar beet, citrus, fruit trees, and vines, supported by a regional network of agronomists and agricultural technicians.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Marphyt: A subsidiary company distributing a broad range of phytopharmaceutical products.

Products and services

• CAPTANE 50 WP Multi-purpose fungicide from the Phthalimide group, 50% Captane, used against a wide spectrum of diseases including downy mildew, scab, and peach leaf curl. Intended for Moroccan farmers and distributors in the crop protection market.
• CIDELY TOP Syngenta innovation combining 15 g/l Cyflufénamide and 125 g/l Difénoconazole for powerful action against powdery mildew and cladosporiosis on cucurbits, strawberries, melons, watermelons, and tomatoes.
• COPERNICO 50 WP Copper-based preventive fungicide with 50% metallic copper as copper hydroxide (77%), used against foliar diseases and bacteria in vegetables, vines, olives, and fruit trees.
• CHORUS Anti-Botrytis and anti-scab fungicide with 50% Cyprodinil, approved for tomato, vine, and apple trees with both preventive and curative action.
• AMISTAR Strobilurin family fungicide with broad spectrum action against cryptogamic diseases in cereal crops, active on germination, mycelial growth, and sporulation.
• ORTIVA 25 SC Broad-spectrum fungicide with 250 g/l Azoxystrobin for control of downy mildew, powdery mildew, alternaria, anthracnose, and rust in vegetables and vines.
• EMERALD 125 ME Systemic fungicide with 125 g/l Tetraconazole for guaranteed efficacy against powdery mildew on a wide range of crops including tomato, strawberry, cucurbits, vines, and fruit trees.
• PROLECTUS 50 WG Anti-Botrytis fungicide with 50% Fenpyrazamine for tomato, strawberry, and vine, acting through translaminar movement and sterol biosynthesis interference.
• TAKUMI 20 WG Foliar insecticide from the Benzendicarboxamide chemical family with 20% Flubendiamide for control of Tuta absoluta and noctuids on tomato and codling moth on apple trees.
• KARATE 5 EC Multi-purpose insecticide from the Pyrethroid family with 50 g/l Lambda-Cyhalothrin for broad-spectrum control of soil noctuids, stem borers, fruit flies, and other pests.
• PLATINUM Neonicotinoid insecticide with 240 g/l Thiamethoxam for control of whiteflies on tomato and aphids on apple, plum, apricot, and melon crops.
• PIRIMOR 50 DG Aphicide with 50% Pyrimicarbe in dispersible granules for aphid control in vegetables, fruit trees, cotton, cucurbits, sugar beet, cereals, strawberries, and ornamental crops.
• MASAMITE Premium acaricide with 20% Tebufenpyrad for contact and ingestion action on red and yellow phytophagous mites at all development stages including larvae, adults, and summer eggs.
• APPLAUD 25 SC Growth regulator insecticide with 250 g/L Buprofezin for whitefly control on tomato, blocking larval molting and rendering eggs sterile.
• BRIGADA GEO Granular insecticide with 0.4% Bifenthrine for soil insect control, applied at sowing and buried in the seed furrow.
• ACTELLIC 50 EC Broad-spectrum insecticide with 500 g/l Pirimiphos-Methyl for stored product protection and storage facility disinfection.
• ADMIRAL 10 EC Broad-spectrum insecticide with 100 g/L Pyriproxyfen from the pyridine derivative family, acting as a molting hormone mimic to prevent larval to adult transition.
• ARVILMEC EC Broad-spectrum insecticide-acaricide with 18 g/l Abamectin with both contact and translaminar action, effective as larvicide and adulticide.
• DUAL GOLD 960 EC Selective herbicide with 960 g/l S-Metolachlor for control of annual grasses and some dicotyledon species in maize and sugar beet.
• SELECT SUPER Selective post-emergence herbicide with 120 g/l Clethodim for grass weed control in sugar beet, beans, and rapeseed including ryegrass.
• LUMAX 537.5 SE Triple-action herbicide combining Mesotrione (37.5 g/l), S-Metolachlor (375 g/l), and Terbuthylazine (125 g/l) for broad-spectrum grass and dicotyledon weed control in sugarcane and maize.
• FUSILADE FORTE Selective post-emergence herbicide with 150 g/l Fluazifop-P-butyl for grass weed control in vegetables including garlic, artichoke, asparagus, sugar beet, celery, cabbage, spinach, beans, lettuce, and mint.
• VOLCANO Herbicide with 150 g/l Ethofumesate and 350 g/l Metribuzone for control of annual dicotyledon weeds in sugar beet.
• SOLUBOR Boric anhydride-based fertilizer with 20.9% Boron for boron fertilization and correction of boron deficiencies in crops including sugar beet, fruit trees, citrus, vines, olives, and vegetables.
• SOLUBOR FLOW Aqueous suspension of Sodium Borate with 130 g/l Boron (10% w/w) for boron fertilization and correction of boron deficiencies, particularly effective for sugar beet heart rot disease.
• SIAPTON Amino acid and organic matter-based biostimulant with 55.6% organic matter and 9.1% total nitrogen, containing hydrolysed proteins and trace amino acids for crop physiological stimulation.
• PROMALIN Plant growth regulator with 2% 6-benzyladenine and 2% Gibberellins A4-A7 for fruit quality improvement, preventing apple roughness, promoting fruit setting in pears, and improving fruit size and shape.
• FAST FRUIT Specific phytoregulator with 2,4-D (100 g/l) for limiting pre-harvest fruit drop in citrus by inhibiting abscission zone formation.
• BERELEX 40 SG Gibberellic Acid AG3-based product with 40% content in water-soluble granules for cell elongation, flowering induction, and improving harvest quantity and quality in citrus and vines.

Quantifiable outcome

• Covers over 50 crop categories with a full product portfolio

Named customers2 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Twelve partnerships are on record.

• AlbaughOthersLogo displayed as a partner. Albaugh is a global agriscience company specializing in crop protection products.
• BelchimOthersLogo displayed as a partner. Belchim Crop Protection develops and supplies innovative crop protection solutions.
• CheminovaOthersLogo displayed as a partner. Cheminova is a global developer and manufacturer of agrochemical active ingredients.
• FMCOthersLogo displayed as a partner. FMC Corporation is a global agriscience company offering crop protection solutions.
• ISAGROOthersLogo displayed as a partner. ISAGRO is an Italian agrochemical company specializing in research and development of crop protection products.
• Nihon NohyakuOthersLogo displayed as a partner. Nihon Nohyaku is a Japanese agrochemical company developing and producing crop protection chemicals.
• NordoxOthersLogo displayed as a partner. Nordox is a Norwegian company specializing in copper-based fungicides for crop protection.
• NufarmOthersLogo displayed as a partner. Nufarm is an Australian-based agriscience company offering a broad range of crop protection products.
• Safa TarimOthersLogo displayed as a partner. Safa Tarim is a Turkish agrochemical company.
• Sumitomo ChemicalOthersLogo displayed as a partner. Sumitomo Chemical is a major Japanese chemical conglomerate with a significant crop protection portfolio.
• SyngentaOthersLogo displayed as a partner. Syngenta is a leading global agriscience company providing crop protection and seeds solutions.
• UPLOthersLogo displayed as a partner. UPL is a global provider of agricultural inputs and crop protection solutions.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Market position

Competitive moat3 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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