Company type | Private formed by Merck KGaA |
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Industry | Life sciences Biotech |
Founded | Merck founded 1668 (Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany) |
Headquarters | , United States |
Key people | Matthias Heinzel, CEO |
Products | Filtration Pharmaceutical equipment and consumables Chemistry Biotechnology |
Revenue | EUR€ 6.86 billion (2020)[1] |
Number of employees | More than 22,000 |
Website | www.sigmaaldrich.com |
Merck Millipore was the brand used by Merck Group's (not US-based Merck & Co.) global life science business until 2015 when the company re-branded. It was formed when Merck acquired the Millipore Corporation in 2010. Merck is a supplier to the life science industry. The Millipore Corporation was founded in 1954, and listed among the S&P 500 since the early 1990s, as an international biosciences company which makes micrometer pore-size filters and tests. In 2015, Merck acquired Sigma-Aldrich and merged it with Merck Millipore. In the United States and Canada, the life science business is now known as MilliporeSigma.[2][3]