MERCK KGaA

The Merck Group, commonly known as Merck, is a German multinational and one the oldest and largest chemicals supplier in the world. The portfolio of thier Performance Materials business is diverse and covers materials like liquid crystals and OLED materials for displays, materials for integrated circuits, effect pigments for coatings and color cosmetics or functional materials for energy solutions.
Merck Life Science (ex Millipore) offers up to 400 active pharmaceutical ingredients, excipients and biopharmaceutical materials under the EMPROVE® programme. The products offer comprehensive application-specific documentation, allowing customers to reduce qualification costs and accelerate time-to-market processes. Depending on the application, the EMPROVE documentation can contain information such as manufacturer and manufacturing process details, testing procedures, purity and stability data. The active pharmaceutical ingredients are manufactured according to cGMP guideline ICH Q7, the excipients are EXCiPACT certified and the biopharmaceutical materials can be used in both upstream and downstream process steps.