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Introduction
This is the proposal that we have been working on for Kenneth Dailey at Green River FMC. It will provide the background that was needed to be looked at from Green River FMC and Aberdeen FMC. We will talk about all the areas that we analyzed and give our recommendations and how we feel these recommendations should be implemented.
Background
The FMC Corporation is based out of Chicago with $3.4 billion in sales as of 1989. Their sales are spread out over five businesses, the first one being industrial chemicals, then performances chemicals, precious metals, defense system, and finally machinery. They had a contract with the United States Navy to make missile launching canisters. At first the missiles were being made at the Minnesota plant that had 3000 employees. They could only produce 2 canisters a day. This made them realize that they needed to have a different way to produce these canisters. Since there was a fixed price for these they decided that this was more of a commercial operation than the one they were used to working with. So they decided that a new facility would be a better place to make these canisters. As they research local business environment, tax regulations, community support and labor pools they decided to build a company in Aberdeen South Dakota. The wages were also better there. They decided to make only the canisters at this plant, which gave them only one product.
FMC Green River was completed in 1953. It employed 1,150 employees. They produced over a 100 different products, mainly chemicals. They also worked with the
Proposal Pg.3
United Steel Worker of America a union. They have a large underground mine that produces five million tons of bicarbonate of soda ash a year. (Clawson,...