date:Mar 11, 2014
will hold the company's soda ash and lithium businesses, are expected to rise 19 percent to $153 million, based on the midpoint of FMC's 2014 outlook. Revenue is expected to grow 7 percent to $1.0 billion.
Demand for soda ash, which FMC makes for a number of industrial customers, has been cyclical due to an uneven global economic recovery.
But FMC is upbeat about its lithium business, which makes chemicals used in electric car batteries.
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