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To support our customers’ continued growth, we
must do more than provide new product offerings.
We need to ensure that we have the capacity to
produce enough of our traditional high-demand
products to meet the world’s growing needs.
We recently expanded our microcrystalline
cellulose (MCC) production capacity in Newark,
Delaware, and Cork, Ireland. Additionally, a new
$100 million MCC plant in Thailand, scheduled
to be completed by late 2014, will enable us to
supply growing demand in rapidly developing
Asian economies. With a scarce supply of dairy
products in this area of the world, consumers need
non-dairy protein beverages, and our MCC gives
these products an attractive mouth feel, texture
and stability.
FMC works alongside our customers to better
serve local markets through 11 food laboratories
in strategic locations around the world. Within
the past two years, FMC opened new food labs in
Singapore, Chile, India and Russia to support the
growing demand in rapidly developing economies.
This diversity of research locations enables us
to provide customers with unique chemistries
and customized solutions that align with local
consumer demand, while adding value to the
innovation process through the exchange of ideas
and outcomes between the labs.
A Growing Focus on Innovation That
Advances Sustainability
As we increase our investments in R&D focused
on products that create a sustainability advantage,
we are also broadening our collaboration with
customers who have like-minded goals. These
combined forces of focused research and shared
intent will produce new avenues of market success
and more sustainable outcomes.
FMC PUTS NATURAL
INGREDIENTS TO WORK
NATURAL SOURCE PRODUCT & APPLICATION
SEAWEED
LEMONS TO PECTIN
CARRAGEENAN
& ALGINATE
• Suspension properties
• Modifies texture
• Ice crystal control
• Cold soluble
• Cold setting gel
• Heat stable gelation
WOOD PULP CELLULOSE GEL
• Suspension properties
• Imparts thickening
• Creamy mouthfeel
CITRUS PEEL PECTIN
• Protein protection
• Provides mouthfeel
• Suspension properties
FRUIT/VEGETABLES/hERBS
NATURAL COLORS
• Complete hue range from
yellow to orange to red
to purple to green
• Sourced from safe and
healthy fruits, vegetables
and herbs
At our site in Milazzo, Italy, we are a
partner in a larger closed-loop system
for production of products derived
from local lemons and lemon peels.
Harvested lemons are first utilized for
juice or oil before FMC processes the
peels to extract the pectin compound.
The remaining portions of the lemons are
used in animal feed and soil additives.
FMC 2012 SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 19