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What FMC layoffs have meant for employees

FMC said it had implemented substantially all Project Focus activities by December 31, 2025, and its 2025 Form 10-K put the program's charges within a range of about $425 million to $475 million, well above the $180 million to $215 million an amended February 2024 filing had expected. Project Foundation, approved by FMC's board on December 12, 2025, is a separate program, and FMC's 10-Q for the third quarter still gave the end of 2027 as the point when its actions should be substantially complete. Its December 2025 filing tied that program to annual run-rate savings of $175 million or more.

Project Focus's severance figures mix several kinds of exits. The same February 2024 filing set one company-wide range, $85 million to $100 million, for the severance and benefit charges FMC estimated for both the voluntary separation program and the involuntary reductions, and the cost of moving various activities to Switzerland sat inside it too. Beyond the cuts, it said FMC would assess its global location strategy and divest non-core assets, a possible sale of the non-crop GSS business among them.

FMC got smaller along the way. Its 2023 Form 10-K counted about 6,600 people at the close of that year, 24% of them in North America, and the 2025 report counted about 5,500, with North America's share down to 21%. That's a net change, and it spans the November 2024 sale of FMC's GSS business, the divestiture Project Focus had floated, so it isn't a tally of layoffs.

Project Foundation's price has gone up while its severance estimate narrowed. Expected charges stood at about $700 million to $775 million in the 10-Q, against $560 million to $635 million in December, and $490 million to $505 million of the new total is non-cash write-offs and accelerated depreciation tied mainly to leaving production at certain sites. By the 10-Q, the severance estimate had narrowed to $50 million to $70 million, and the third quarter alone booked $36.2 million of severance and separation costs, out of $174.7 million in Project Foundation charges that quarter. By our arithmetic on those ranges, non-cash write-offs make up roughly two-thirds of the expected cost and severance a tenth or less, so the program is first of all about production sites. FMC said the plant exits are meant to help its products better compete with generics. Neither filing names a plant, so if you're at an FMC plant, the filings won't tell you whether yours is among them.

The December plan also pointed at a region. FMC said it was implementing cost cuts in Asia to fit the smaller business left after the planned sale of its India commercial operations, and that it would keep right-sizing its cost base and organizational structure across the company. Asia held 39% of FMC's staff on December 31, 2025.

Separately, the closing FMC announced in Denmark falls on one of its large active-ingredient plants, since the 2025 Form 10-K listed Rønland among those it owned and ran, alongside plants in the U.S., Puerto Rico, China and India. Eurofound reported that FMC tied the decision to optimizing its global production and said affected staff were offered crisis-psychologist support. If you were among the Rønland staff, the help on record is a special employment effort for dismissed workers, which Denmark's employment ministry said in October Lemvig would receive money to set up.