Antifungal wallboards and building materials and methods for the production thereof
AssigneeSyngenta Crop Protection AG
InventorsAlexander Cornish, Anja Greiner, John R. James, Gertrude Knauf-Beiter, Johann Steiner
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Abstract
The present invention relates to, inter alia, methods for the treatment of wallboards and the treated wallboards. In particular, the invention relates to the treatment of wallboards with a fungicidally effective amount of a strobilurin or strobilurin-type fungicide. In a particular embodiment the fungicide is azoxystrobin. The invention also provides for the treatment of wallboards and building materials with combinations of fungicides present in synergistic amounts.
Claims6
A wallboard that has been treated with a fungicidally effective amount of a composition consisting of, as active ingredients, synergistic amounts of the fungicides (a) azoxystrobin, (b) thiabendazole, and (c) fludioxonil.
A method for the prevention and/or treatment of growth and/or infestation of a fungus on a wallboard comprising treating the wallboard with a composition consisting of, as active ingredients, synergistic amounts of the fungicides (a) azoxystrobin, (b) thiabendazole, and (c) fludioxonil.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.