FMC Agricultural Solutions

DuPont, established in 1802 as an explosives company, offers a wide range of products for markets, including food and nutrition, health care, apparel, safety and security, construction, electronics, and transportation. The company s agriculture and nutrition segment offers hybrid seed corn and soybean seed, herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, and soy protein. Its coatings and color technologies segment provides automotive finishes, industrial coatings and white pigments. The firm s electronic and communication technologies segment offers fluorochemicals, fluoropolymers, photopolymers and electronic materials. The performance materials segment provides engineering polymers, packaging and industrial polymers, films, and elastomers. The safety and protection segment provides specialty and industrial chemicals, nonwovens, aramids, and solid surfaces. Charles O. Holliday Jr. has been the chief executive officer of EI du Pont de Nemours for more than eight years. He has been with the diversified chemical company for over 36 years. Holliday earned a BSIE from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. DuPont is a Fortune 500 company, and is headquartered in Wilmington, Del. It operates more than 40 research and development and customer service laboratories in the United States, and over 35 laboratories in other countries.

Church & Dwight, founded in 1846, is one of the world s leading producers of sodium bicarbonate, popularly known as baking soda, a natural product that cleans, deodorizes, leavens and buffers. The company offers a wide range of consumer and specialty products developed from the base of bicarbonate and related technologies under its Arm & Hammer brand. It provides consumer products under various categories, including deodorizing and household cleaning, laundry and personal care. Church & Dwight s specialty products segment, one of the leading suppliers of specialty inorganic chemicals and animal nutrition, is organized into three categories, including specialty chemicals, animal nutrition and specialty cleaners. Church & Dwight is headquartered in Princeton, N.J.

FMC Corporation, established in 1883, is a diversified chemical company serving agricultural, industrial and consumer markets globally through various subsidiaries. The company s agricultural products segment provides crop protection and pest control products, such as insecticides and herbicides. Its specialty chemicals group, FMC BioPolymer is one of the world s leading producers of alginate, carrageenan and microcrystalline cellulose. In the industrial chemicals segment, FMC Alkali Chemicals offers natural soda ash, sodium bicarbonate, sodium cyanide, sodium sesquicarbonate and caustic soda. FMC Active Oxidants supplies persulfate products, and produces peracetic acid and other specialty oxidants. FMC Foret, a chemical producer, provides a wide range of products, including hydrogen peroxide, peroxygens, phosphates, silicates, zeolites and sulfur derivatives. FMC Corporation is headquartered in Philadelphia.