State of the art bulk formulation facilities and high-speed dedicated packaging lines allowed us to deliver more that five million gallons of product to the market place in 2000. The introduction of Glyphosate in 2001 is expected to significantly increase this volume. We believe our customer service people are some of the best in the industry. In recent years, we have invested a very significant amount of capital in a plant expansion program that exceeds all current environmental, health and safety regulations. We are totally committed to the health and safety of our employees, customers and to the environment.
Safety is a number one priority.
In this age of company consolidation we are one of the few companies in the industry employing more personnel. In the last eighteen months we have added three regional managers, two national account managers, as well as additional financial and customer service people as we continue to aggressively grow our business. Albaugh, Inc. will continue to introduce new off-patent products. We have achieved our annual goal over the last four years of bringing one new product group to the market place. In this manner we will achieve our stated objective of being the premier supplier of off patent crop protection products to the broad acre crop market.