Locally

Every year Philadelphia-based employees participate in the United Way Campaign.  In 2008 our employees  donated over $400,000 to local charities of their choice.  This represents a 97% participation rate.

FMC BioPolymer in Rockland, Maine participates in an annual Community Service Day each October.  The BioPolymer employees recently gave of their time and talent – and a fair amount of perspiration – to paint the roof, clean the carpet and landscape the yard of the local Area Interfaith Outreach Food Pantry.  Their hard work came just in time for AIO’s open house, where it showcased its programs for the community’s needy.  AIO provides food from its collective Food Pantry, emergency financial assistance and referrals to social service agencies.  FMC Rockland has been closely associated with AIO’s work, providing sweat equity and more for this worthy organization.

Globally



FMC has donated to China Charity, for the purpose of helping victims of the May 12, 2008 Sichuan earthquake recover from this disaster.  This donation was made by four divisions of FMC China including Agricultural Products Group, APG Chemical Technology consulting, FMC BioPolymer and FMC Lithium.  No FMC employees or family members were injured in the earthquake.



Realizing the need for a school in a major supply area of Madagascar, FMC BioPolymer donated the funds to build the school.  Now the children of Nosy Ankao are assured a primary education in the best school building within 250 miles. 



For the last two years FMC BioPolymer employees have run a campaign to raise money to purchase mosquito nets for seaweed farmers in Tanzania.  These nets are used in the prevention of malaria to the farmers.  With the FMC Matching Gift Policy, FMC BioPolymer was able to buy over 1,500 nets for farming families.



FMC BioPolymer has a unique raw material: seaweed.  Sourcing this seaweed involves developing and promoting the farming of seaweed in Southeast Asia and the Western Indian Ocean as well as assuring sustainable harvests of wild resources in Europe, North Africa and North and South America. 

The foundation of sustainable development is the establishment of sustainable, village-based economies.  FMC BioPolymer is a leader in developing improved farming technology to increase productivity and assure competitiveness, as well as establishing new farming communities and supporting those communities. 

FMC BioPolymer in Cebu, Philippines has received a citation from the Mandaue Chamber of Commerce for their support to the families of the victims who were affected by a fire in March, 2007. FMC Cebu also donated materials for the construction of a perimeter fence for the Cesar Cabahug Elementary School.