Fresenius Medical Care
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{{Infobox Company|
| company_name = Fresenius Medical Care
| company_logo = [[Image:Fresenius Medical Care.svg|200px]]
| company_type = Public ([[Frankfurt Stock Exchange|FWB]]: [http://deutsche-boerse.com/dbag/dispatch/en/isg/gdb_navigation/home?module=InOverview_Equi&wp=DE0005785802&foldertype=_Equi&wplist=DE0005785802&active=overview&wpbpl= FME])
| foundation = [[1996]]
| location = {{flagicon|Germany}} [[Bad Homburg]], [[Germany]]
| key_people = Ben Lipps ([[Chief executive officer|CEO]]), Gerd Krick (Chairman of the [[supervisory board]])
| industry = [[Health care]]
| products = kidney [[dialysis]] products
| revenue = [[United States dollar|$]]8.499 [[1000000000 (number)|billion]] ([[2006]])<ref name="figures">{{cite web
|url=http://www.fmc-ag.com/gb_2006/en/index.html
|title=Fresenius Medical Care Annual Report 2006
|last=Fresenius Medical Care
|accessdate=2007-08-12}}</ref>
| num_employees= 56,800 (2006)<ref name="figures" />
| homepage = [http://www.fmc-ag.com www.fmc-ag.com]
}}
'''Fresenius Medical Care''' is a [[Germany|German]] company specializing in the production of medical supplies, primarily to facilitate or aid renal [[dialysis]]. It is 37%-owned by the [[health care]] company [[Fresenius SE]].<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.fmc-ag.com/internet/fmc/fmcag/agintpub.nsf/Content/Capital+structure
|title=Capital structure
|last=Fresenius Medical Care
|accessdate=2007-08-12}}</ref> The company was formed in 1996 from the [[mergers and acquisitions|merger]] of Fresenius Worldwide Dialysis, then a division of Fresenius SE, and [[United States|American]] company [[National Medical Care]]. This sector is very complex, and has many different divisions, each with a number of plants.
== Manufacturing ==
These plants, which fall under the ''concentration'' division, manufacture the finished products from raw materials, such as [[sodium chloride]], [[dextrose]], and [[magnesium]], to name a few. These all go through a complex mixing process, and then through a complex packaging process. Most of it is automated, with humans only at monitors.
Interestingly enough, the most important part of any package, besides chemical makeup of the substance, are the labels. There must be a label on all four corners of a box of powder. No one box can be missing a label, have an incorrect barcode, be human-unreadable, or have more than the proper amount of labels. This is because of the need to be able to locate and identify any of the boxes as the need would arise.
== Distribution ==
Distribution is where the finished product, from Manufacturing, comes in on Semi-Trucks to be distributed to dialysis clinics and [[hospitals]]. These products are then used in the [[dialysis]] Process.
On 30 Oct 06, the manufacturing facility (Fresenius Hemocare) in Redmond, Washington was shut down.
==References==
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== External links ==
Company Sector Website [http://www.fmc-ag.com www.fmc-ag.com]
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[[Category:Manufacturing companies of Germany]]
[[Category:Companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange]]
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