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FMC Green River facility employs 1150 people and produced 5 million tons of trona ore a year. Recruitment in Green River was easy; the town had about 15,000 people. People traveled long distances for the opportunity to apply and work at the facility. They began operating in 1948 and completed in 1953 producing about 1.3 million tons of a single grade of soda ash. They have the largest sodium tri-polyphosphate plant in the world. Green River was a part of the Alkali Chemicals Divisions of FMC that supplied sodium-based chemicals to the detergent industry, the glass industry and large commercial pants. Daily it sent out a 80-100 ton hopper car train full of product. In essence their freight composed 25 percent of the final cost.
Aberdeen's structure was simple, staff of 100 people and has only one product, and one customer. The two plants are very different in age and industry as well, with Green River as an older company in the chemical industry, and Aberdeen, a......

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