Description of Business	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2015
Description of Business
Description of Business	1.Description of Business AgroFresh Solutions, Inc. (the “Company”) is a global agricultural innovator in proprietary advanced technologies that enhance the freshness, quality, and value of fresh produce. The Company currently offers SmartFresh™ applications at customer sites through a direct service model utilizing third-party contractors and provides advisory services based on its extensive knowledge base on the use of its products collected through thousands of monitored applications. The Company operates in over 40 countries and currently derives the majority of its revenue working with customers to protect the value of apples, pears, and other produce during storage. Line extensions and new services have been introduced to strengthen the Company’s global position in post-harvest storage and to capitalize on adjacent growth opportunities in pre-harvest markets. The end markets that the Company serves are seasonal and are generally aligned with the seasonal growing patterns of the Company’s principal customers’ growing activities. For those customers growing, harvesting or storing apples, the Company’s primary target market, the peak season in the southern hemisphere is the first and second quarters of each year, while the peak season in the northern hemisphere is the third and fourth quarters of each year. Within each six month period of a year, or the first half months of January through June, and the second half months of July through December, the apple growing season has historically occurred during both quarters. A variety of factors, including weather, may affect the timing of the growing, harvesting and storing patterns of the Company’s customers and therefore shift their consumption of the Company’s services and products between the first and second quarters primarily in the southern hemisphere or between the third and fourth quarters primarily in the northern hemisphere. The Company was originally incorporated as Boulevard Acquisition Corp. (“Boulevard”), a blank check company, in Delaware on October 24, 2013, and was formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination. On July 31, 2015, the Company completed a Business Combination (refer to Note 3) and changed its name to AgroFresh Solutions, Inc. Prior to consummation of the Business Combination, the Company’s efforts were limited to organizational activities, its initial public offering and related financings, and the search for suitable business acquisition transactions.

1.Description of Business

AgroFresh Solutions, Inc. (the “Company”) is a global agricultural innovator in proprietary advanced technologies that enhance the freshness, quality, and value of fresh produce. The Company currently offers SmartFresh™ applications at customer sites through a direct service model utilizing third-party contractors and provides advisory services based on its extensive knowledge base on the use of its products collected through thousands of monitored applications. The Company operates in over 40 countries and currently derives the majority of its revenue working with customers to protect the value of apples, pears, and other produce during storage. Line extensions and new services have been introduced to strengthen the Company’s global position in post-harvest storage and to capitalize on adjacent growth opportunities in pre-harvest markets.

The end markets that the Company serves are seasonal and are generally aligned with the seasonal growing patterns of the Company’s principal customers’ growing activities. For those customers growing, harvesting or storing apples, the Company’s primary target market, the peak season in the southern hemisphere is the first and second quarters of each year, while the peak season in the northern hemisphere is the third and fourth quarters of each year. Within each six month period of a year, or the first half months of January through June, and the second half months of July through December, the apple growing season has historically occurred during both quarters. A variety of factors, including weather, may affect the timing of the growing, harvesting and storing patterns of the Company’s customers and therefore shift their consumption of the Company’s services and products between the first and second quarters primarily in the southern hemisphere or between the third and fourth quarters primarily in the northern hemisphere.

The Company was originally incorporated as Boulevard Acquisition Corp. (“Boulevard”), a blank check company, in Delaware on October 24, 2013, and was formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination. On July 31, 2015, the Company completed a Business Combination (refer to Note 3) and changed its name to AgroFresh Solutions, Inc. Prior to consummation of the Business Combination, the Company’s efforts were limited to organizational activities, its initial public offering and related financings, and the search for suitable business acquisition transactions.