(Durham, NC) Echo® ETQ Turf and Ornamental Fungicide combines a proven active ingredient with an innovative additive to provide disease control, enhanced turf quality and economical management of summer stress factors. Introduced at the 2009 Golf Industry Show, it is the newest product from SipcamAdvan.

Cost effective for fairway use, Echo ETQ contains the proven fungicide chlorothalonil and a novel pigment, which stimulates the plant components needed to improve summer stress tolerance. The technology behind Echo ETQ improves turf quality factors such as color, strength, density and consistency, while controlling dollar spot, brown patch, leaf spot, gray leaf spot, anthracnose and many other turf and ornamental diseases.

According to George Furrer, marketing manager for the specialty products business of SipcamAdvan, "Echo ETQ gives superintendents and other professionals a new tool for economically managing summer stress and its effect on turf quality."

The new fungicide is available from SipcamAdvan distributors in two formulations: Echo Ultimate ETQ, a spray-dried granule, and Echo 6F ETQ, a flowable concentrate.

SipcamAdvan utilizes a distribution-focused strategy to provide specialty and advanced technology products to the agriculture, turf and ornamental, home and garden and pest management markets in the U.S. and Mexico. The company is headquartered in Durham, North Carolina.