Itronics Develops "Cool Season Turf" Application Program for its Gold'n Gro Fertilizer Products.RENO, Nev.,--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 3, 1997--Itronics Inc. (OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). BB:ITRO ITRO In the Region Of ITRO Interservice Training Review Organization ITRO Information Technology Resource Optimization (Maryville Technologies) ) announced today that its photobyproduct recycling subsidiary, Itronics Metallurgical Inc. (OTC BB:IMI IMI International Masonry Institute (Washington, DC) IMI Israel Military Industries IMI Institute of the Motor Industry IMI International Market Insight IMI Imposto Municipal Sobre Imóveis (Portugal) ), has completed development of a "cool season turf" application program that uses each of its previously announced commercial liquid fertilizer products. These products are Gold'n Gro 20-1-7, Gold'n Gro Iron, and Gold'n Gro Manganese. "Cool season turf grasses" include fescues, blue-grasses, rye-grasses, and bent grasses. The turf application program uses Gold'n Gro 20-1-7, which was ranked No. 1 for the second consecutive year in a University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). Riverside evaluation program, as the base fertilizer. Gold'n Gro Iron and Gold'n Gro Manganese are used as supplements. Two protocols have been developed, one for normal "cool season turf," and one for "cool season turf" which suffers from manganese deficiency manganese deficiency A rare mineral deficiency state due to a lack of dietary intake of manganese Clinical MD during gestation is linked to skeletal defects—shortened limbs, chondrodystrophy, incoordination, ataxia, tremors and hyperreflexia. See Manganese. . Markets for the application program are lawn service companies and golf courses that use liquid fertilizer products in their nutrition programs. The program is cost-competitive and produces excellent results in use. The price/quality superiority of this program is attractive to users. IMI has been working with Nitro-Green Corp., a lawn service franchise company, in developing the application program protocols. The application parameters were developed using the results of the application tests performed at the University of California Riverside. Nitro-Green has been using the program with good results at a franchise in Northern California Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern and is now introducing the program to other franchises in the Northern California market. There are more than 100 franchises in the Nitro-Green group. One of the Turf & Ornamental marketing groups within Western Farm Service (WFS WFS Wegfahrsperre (German: drive away blocking system) WFS Web Feature Service WFS World Future Society WFS World Food Summit WFS Wave Front Sensor WFS Wolfram Syndrome WFS Wire Feed Speed (welding) ) is supplying supplemental nitrogen products to Nitro-Green for this program. WFS is now marketing the application program on a "test basis" to some of its own lawn service customers. Source-1, a sister company of WFS, is presenting the program to some of its distributors for evaluation. A manufacturing subsidiary of WFS is selling nitrogen and phosphate raw materials to IMI for use in its Gold'n Gro fertilizer products. IMI is selling Gold'n Gro 20-1-7 and Gold'n Gro Iron to Nitro-Green and to WFS. Gold'n Gro Manganese is still being evaluated by WFS. Fertilizer distributors, lawn service operators, and golf course managers interested in this program may obtain information on Gold'n Gro Product Application No. 11 by calling IMI at 800/368-1865. Itronics Inc. is a Reno-based company specializing in recycling technology Recycling technology Methods for reducing solid waste by reusing discarded materials to make new products. The three integral phases of recycling are the collection of recyclable materials, manufacture or reprocessing of these materials into new products, and development, photobyproduct recycling, silver refining, and technical services for the mining and recycling industries. CONTACT: Itronics Inc., Reno John Whitney, 702/689-7676 |
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