Bayer Environmental Science has announced that its business group will move its North American operations from Montvale, N.J., and Birmingham, Ala., to Research Triangle Park, N.C., the Region Americas headquarters for Bayer CropScience. Bayer Environmental Science is a business group of Bayer CropScience.

The move is intended to increase efficiencies within the company overall by bringing together all three of its business groups, BioScience, Crop Protection, and now Environmental Science, in one location. The move, projected for mid-2005, will allow closer coordination among these three business groups and the company’s support functions.

Bayer Environmental Science employs approximately 90 people collectively in Montvale and Birmingham. Currently, Bayer CropScience employs about 375 people at its Research Triangle Park headquarters.