Dallas, Texas 07/05/2013 (Financialstrend)- The shares of FMC Corp (NYSE:FMC) is currently trading at $62.15, up by 0.73%. FMC Corp (NYSE:FMC) is a chemical company which serves agricultural, industrial and consumer markets with solutions, applications and products. FMC Corp (NYSE:FMC) hired Citigroup to find a buyer for its hydrogen peroxide unit, since the company plans to simplify its business and accelerate its stock buyback program.
The company acquired the European per sulfates business of Rhein Per Chemie GmbH from Union chimica SpA in October 2011. FMC Corp(NYSE:FMC)opened the new Singapore Technical Center in Singapore Science Park 2.The company is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
FMC Corp (NYSE:FMC) sells chemical products that are used by beef and poultry for reducing pathogens, such as E. coli and salmonella, on uncooked beef and poultry.It obtained a patent on a method for sanitizing fowl that had been killed, plucked and eviscerated by contacting the fowl with an aqueous acid solution, maintaining the contact for a time sufficient for sanitizing the fowl.
A piston pumpwasFMC Corp’s(NYSE:FMC) first product.Bean Spray Pump purchased the Anderson-Barngrover Co. and Sprague-Sells in 1928, changing its name to Food Machinery Corporation, beginning to use the FMC initials.
FMC Corporation (NYSE: FMC) announced that it will be launching a product called anaerobic bioremediationfrom 10thto 13thJune in Jacksonville, Florida,at the International Symposium on Bioremediation &Sustainable Environmental Technologies.
The following segments are operated by FMC: the agricultural products segment, which develops, markets and sells crop protection chemicals, the specialty chemicals and the industrial chemicals segment.