Over the last few years the soda ash industry has been relatively stable as global consumption continued to recover from the effects of the global economic downturn of 2008/09.
In 2014, FMC announced it planned to sell its US operations by mid-2015 as part of its purchase of Cheminova, a multinational crop protection company, from Auriga Industries.This is the largest shake-up in ownership of soda ash capacity in recent years, outstripping the purchase of Brunner Mond by Tata and Searles Lake by Nirma in the late 2000s.
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