McLaughlin Gormley King to Process Pyrethrum in Rwanda, New Times Reports

McLaughlin Gormley King Co., a U.S. insecticide manufacturer that buys pyrethrum from Rwanda, plans to begin refining the plant in the East African country, New Times reported, citing a growers association.

A factory in Rwanda will process 3,000 metric tons of the flowers annually, the Kigali-based newspaper said, citing Gabriel Bizimungu, general manager of the Rwanda Pyrethrum Growers Association.

Pyrethrum flowers are used to manufacture insecticide.

To contact the reporter on this story: David Malingha Doya in Kigali via Johannesburg at pmrichardson@bloomberg.net.

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