FMC Acquires Global All Product ChemAxon Licenses and Switches Over to JChem Structure Search Platform

The FMC Corporation is one of the world's foremost, diversifiedchemical companies with leading positions in agricultural, industrialand consumer markets. FMC's Agricultural Products Group is responsiblefor discovering, optimising and producing insecticides and herbicidesfor use on a broad range of crops and pests.

ChemAxon is a leading provider of platform independentcheminformatics toolkits and chemical research software. Through theglobal acquisition of ChemAxon's toolkits FMC is able to implementstate of the art cheminformatics platforms useful for insilicostructure design, screening, property prediction and management. Themigration of the structure search at FMC's Agricultural Products Groupis the first step in this integration.

"FMC's APG Discovery Research has evaluated ChemAxon's products,JChem and Marvin, and found the products to be intuitive, easy to use,reliable, and scalable. In FMC's opinion, ChemAxon's tools aretechnically sound and are enterprise solutions. More importantly, theevaluation has, in FMC's opinion, shown that the search results fromJChem Cartridge are more chemically precise and logical than thosefrom the existing search engine. FMC has found that ChemAxon's othersoftware products are also very useful and interesting. In addition,the cost of purchasing and maintaining ChemAxon's products is verycompetitive and ChemAxon's customer service and technical support areamong the best that FMC has found. As a result, FMC's APG DiscoveryResearch has moved its structure search platform to the ChemAxonplatform." said Dr. Ann Orth, Research Director for FMC's AgriculturalProducts Group

"We are very pleased to be working with an organisation like FMC,we were particularly happy with the fast and straightforward platformchangeover process." commented Ferenc Csizmadia, CEO Of ChemAxon.

About ChemAxon

ChemAxon is a leader in providing cheminformatics softwaredevelopment platforms for the biotechnology, pharmaceutical andagrochemical industries. With core capabilities for structurevisualization and management, property prediction, virtual synthesis,screening and drug design, ChemAxon focuses upon active interactionwith users and software portability to create powerful, cost effectivecross platform solutions and programming interfaces to power moderncheminformatics and chemical communication. For more informationplease visit www.chemaxon.com

About FMC Corporation

FMC Corporation is a diversified chemical company servingagricultural, industrial and consumer markets globally for more than acentury with innovative solutions, applications and quality products.The company employs approximately 5,000 people throughout the world.The company operates its businesses in three segments: AgriculturalProducts, Specialty Chemicals and Industrial Chemicals.