FMC
Corporation
(NYSE:FMC),
is an US -based diversified chemical company also focusing on
lithium compounds from the Salar
del Hombre Muerto In 2004 and
in 2011, FMC Lithium began construction of a 30 percent capacity
expansion at its Argentina brine resource. FMC's lithium hydroxide
capacity rose 80 percent in 2017 to 18,000 tonnes a year, and it has
plans to boost that to 30,000 tonnes by the end of 2019. In
May 2017, it announced a three-phase expansion plan to triple its
annual production capacity of lithium hydroxide to at least 30,000
MT by 2019. The first part of the three-phase expansion started
coming on line in the second quarter. FMC claims that it's the most
vertically integrated company in the lithium industry. It owns its
lithium source, the Salar del Hombre Muerto in Argentina, and
processing and production facilities, where the lithium carbonate
that is produced from lithium chloride is further refined into such
products as lithium metals and lithium hydroxide, bromide, and
hypochloride.
