Profile: Laboratory Business Audited by KPMG

The success of the Laboratory Business subdivision is based on a long tradition of offering researchers, teachers and users in industry a broad spectrum of laboratory chemicals in a range of quality grades with certificates of analysis ensuring consistent and comparable results. Today Laboratory Business offers specific solutions and top-rate services for many different laboratory requirements worldwide. It is a single-source supplier serving a global market with its own local companies.

Customers need full-service solutions that exploit the latest technologies. In order for Merck to find the best answers to their requirements, marketing activities are targeted to customer segments. These include, for example, universities as well as the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, food and beverage manufacturing, and chemical industries. Merck is pursuing targeted approaches so that laboratory work can be performed safely and efficiently. Laboratory Business supplies a global market with important laboratory chemicals:

• Reagents for analysis and other applications, particularly standards for instrumental analysis
• Products for analytical chromatography, microbiology, food and environmental analysis
• A broad range of solvents, salts, acids, alkalis and organic chemicals