FMC Corporation is an American chemical manufacturing company headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which originated as an insecticide producer in 1883 and later diversified into other industries.
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15 Facts About FMC Corporation
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FMC Corporation was awarded a contract to design and build amphibious tracked landing vehicles for the United States Department of War in 1941.
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FMC Corporation later built the M113 Armored Personnel Carrier, the Bradley Fighting Vehicle, and the XR311 at its former facility in Santa Clara, California.
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FMC Corporation obtained a patent on a method for sanitizing fowl that have been killed, plucked and eviscerated by contacting the fowl with an aqueous acid solution and maintaining that contact for a time sufficient to sanitize the fowl.
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Between 1965 and 1985 FMC Corporation was the owner of the Gunderson metal works in Springfield, Oregon, during that period it was known as the "Marine and Rail Equipment Division of FMC Corporation", it was sold in 1985 to The Greenbrier Companies.
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FMC Corporation entered a partnership with Sumitomo Heavy Industries forming Link-Belt.
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FMC Corporation Technologies was an American company that produced equipment for exploration and production of hydrocarbons.
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JBT FMC Corporation is an American food processing machinery and airport equipment company.
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FMC Corporation operated a plant in Fridley Minnesota several hundred feet east of the Mississippi river from the 1940s until 1969 where it disposed of waste such as solvents, paint sludge, and plating wastes in an on-site dump.
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FMC Corporation operated a pesticide formulation plant from 1951 until 1986 in Yakima, Washington.
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From 1952 to 1969, FMC Corporation disposed of agricultural pesticides in a pit on site.
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In 2009, CBS 60 Minutes ran an expose on the use by farmers in Kenya of an FMC Corporation–produced pesticide, Furadan, as a poison to kill African lions.
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FMC Corporation has commented extensively on this issue through the media and their websites, including furadanfacts.
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FMC Corporation took action to stop the sale of this product and instituted a buy-back program in East Africa when it determined that the illegal and intentional misuse of chemicals against wildlife could not be controlled by education or stewardship programs alone.
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