FMC Corporation has received two Responsible Care® Awards from the American Chemistry Council. The Waste Management and Water Stewardship Award and the Energy Efficiency Award recognize FMC’s leadership in environmental stewardship through creative strategies that reduce waste, cut emissions, and improve operations.
Both awards recognize projects that were implemented at FMC’s Mobile, Alabama facility, where teams have demonstrated exceptional commitment to sustainability and operational excellence.
They received the Waste Management and Water Stewardship Award for an innovative wastewater treatment program that now allows two-thirds of the facility’s manufacturing waste stream to be treated onsite, diverting 12 million pounds of waste from disposal annually. Before this program, over 15 million pounds of process waste was incinerated each year, resulting in high costs and significant greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
The new process has reduced GHG emissions by 575 metric tons of CO2 equivalents at the site while generating annual savings exceeding $4 million.
The Energy Efficiency Award acknowledges a natural gas reduction project at the site that exemplifies FMC’s approach to improving energy and operational efficiency. Through persistent engineering and creative problem-solving, the Mobile team secured a permit modification allowing one of the site's vent gas incinerators to operate at a lower temperature – reducing natural gas usage by 29%.
Both initiatives received an exceptional merit distinction.
The efforts by the Mobile team demonstrate FMC's commitment to challenging conventional assumptions and delivering innovative solutions that benefit our company and our planet.
