Dupont to Purchase Rockland Plant in Agreement

Maine Public | By Ed Morin

Published March 31, 2017 at 5:03 PM EDT

A carrageenan manufacturing plant in Rockland would be purchased by Dupont under an agreement with current owner FMC.

In order to satisfy European regulators, as Dupont seeks to merge with Dow, Dupont plans to divest a portion of it's crop protection business and acquire FMC's health and nutrition business, which includes the plant in Rockland.

In an emailed statement, an FMC spokesman says that, for now, it's "business as usual." Dwayne Roark says FMC doesn't have any specifics about the future of any of its sites at this time.

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Ed Morin

Ed is a Maine native who spent his early childhood in Livermore Falls before moving to Farmington. He graduated from Mount Blue High School in 1970 before going to the University of Maine at Orono where he received his BA in speech in 1974 with a broadcast concentration. It was during that time that he first became involved with public broadcasting. He served as an intern for what was then called MPBN TV and also did volunteer work for MPBN Radio.

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