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Sales Rep: Scott Suddreth

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Our Institute Industrial Park location occupies 460 acres and employs approximately 700 people dedicated to providing solutions for modern agriculture.

Quality control is stringent at Institute because it produces the active ingredients for crop protection products that countless farmers rely on for growing healthy crops.

Institute employees work together on safety initiatives to protect everyone at the site.

Employees provide services and support for a number of other corporate tenants at the Institute Industrial Park.

Employees take pride in providing solutions for today’s farmers.


The Bayer CropScience Institute Industrial park is a manufacturing industrial park located near Charleston, West Virginia. In continuous operation since WWII, when it was developed to supply synthetic rubber. Other companies joining Bayer CropScience at the industrial park are The Dow Chemical Company, FMC, and Praxair. Total employment at the facility is approximately 700 people.

Bayer CropScience manufactures ingredients used to make some of the world’s leading crop protection products for modern agriculture. Products formulated from these ingredients are used to protect a wide variety of crops from pest damage, helping farmers sustain a growing global population’s demand for food, feed, fiber and energy crops.

Environmental Responsibility
Responsible for leading the Worst Case Scenario communications initiatives that formed the basis for the EPA’s Risk Management Planning regulations, the Institute Industrial Park serves as a model for government, industry and community groups across the nation. The facility also includes a fully certified environmental protection lab for analysis of air, water and solid waste, as well as ongoing process evaluation and emergency response planning.

Community Commitment
Institute representatives maintain an ongoing dialog with neighbors, community officials and responders and area industry leadership, discussing critical issues and exploring areas for enhancement. The companies and employees at the industrial park also make a positive impact on the area by supporting a number of educational, charitable and cultural activities, hosting plant tours and career days, and by participating in Making Science Make Sense®, a company-wide initiative to encourage enthusiasm for the sciences in schools.

Safety Commitment
Institute is the originator of one of the most successful safety initiatives ever implemented by Bayer CropScience. This observation program, now used at locations across the country, allows employees to submit anonymous critiques of on-the-job safety practices. To encourage participation, observations are incentivized with a corporate donation to an employee-selected charity in recognition of each submission.

Meet Our Site Leader
Steve Hedrick leads the Institute Industrial Park. He grew up locally with an appreciation for the value brought by the manufacturing industry to the area. A West Point graduate in chemical engineering, he has been a leader for Bayer MaterialScience at three manufacturing sites and for the region in health, safety & environmental performance. Hedrick brought the Top Five Priorities to Institute as the model for site sustainability and growth when he joined Bayer CropScience in 2010.

Operational Top Five Priorities
There are five priorities for the Institute Industrial Park, which are:

#1 - Excellence in Occupational & Process Safety
#2 - Excellence in Environmental Performance
#3 - Reliability of Our Operations
#4 - Producing Perfect Quality Products
#5 - Efficiency in Our Daily Activities and Operations

Each of these priorities contributes to creating the opportunity for success at the industrial park. The first two form the primary basis for our license to operate granted by our company and our community. The next two assist in keeping that license in place, through maintaining reliably safe and environmentally sound operations and reliably producing products desired by our customers. The last priority ties it all together, so we accomplish these in an efficient and effective manner as a fully sustainable operation.

One acre of farmland is about the size of a football field.

Source: United States Department of Agriculture

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