Abstract: The coated fertilizer granules are coated with a carboxyl-carrying ethylene copolymer in which the carboxyl groups may also be in the form of their salts, the carboxyl-carrying ethylene copolymer being composed of
a) from 75 to 90% by weight of ethylene and
b) from 10 to 25% by weight of an &agr;-olefinically unsaturated C3-C8-alkanecarboxylic acid,
and those coated fertilizer granules which contain an active ingredient for crop protection being excepted.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 15, 2000
Date of Patent:
October 30, 2001
Assignee:
K + S Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Klaus Horchler von Locquenghien, Karl Engelhardt, Eberhard Kleinbach, Michael Wolfgang Müller
Abstract: The coated fertilizer granules are coated with a carboxyl-carrying ethylene copolymer in which the carboxyl groups may also be in the form of their salts, the carboxyl-carrying ethylene copolymer being composed of
a) from 75 to 90% by weight of ethylene and
b) from 10 to 25% by weight of an &agr;-olefinically unsaturated C3-C8-alkanecarboxylic acid,
and those coated fertilizer granules which contain an active ingredient for crop protection being excepted.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 15, 1997
Date of Patent:
February 13, 2001
Assignee:
K + S Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Klaus Horchler von Locquenghien, Karl Engelhardt, Eberhard Kleinbach, Michael Wolfgang Müller