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Merck KGaA (MilliporeSigma Bioprocess)
German science company (Darmstadt; family-owned since 1668) life sciences division (MilliporeSigma in US) produces Fractogel EMD bioprocess chromatography resins alongside its Millipore filtration products and Sigma-Aldrich research chemicals. Fractogel resins (Fractogel EMD SO3-, Fractogel EMD TMAE) are an alternative to Cytiva's Capto resins for cation and anion exchange steps in biologics purification — primarily used by biomanufacturers seeking to reduce single-supplier dependence on Cytiva. Merck KGaA's same Darmstadt facility that makes sterilizing filters for pharmaceutical manufacturers (Durapore, Millipak) also produces the Fractogel resins used in the same manufacturers' upstream purification trains.
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Did you know2024
Merck KGaA (Darmstadt) is simultaneously: (1) the research chemical company whose Sigma-Aldrich catalog is in every academic chemistry lab in the world — if a chemist needs a reagent, they buy it from Sigma-Aldrich; (2) the bioprocess company whose Millipore filters and Fractogel resins purify the biologics drugs manufactured by Pfizer, Roche, and Amgen; and (3) the semiconductor materials company whose EMD Electronics division supplies the specialty deposition gases, CMP components, and photoresist chemicals used in semiconductor fabs at TSMC and Intel. A 356-year-old German family company supplies the research chemicals in a university lab, the sterility filters in a biopharmaceutical plant, and the atomic layer deposition precursors in a semiconductor fab — three supply chains that share no obvious connection except that a Darmstadt family company is in all three. Sigma-Aldrich's catalog (800,000+ chemical products) may be the world's most comprehensive single-supplier chemistry resource; the same Merck KGaA entity also makes the chip chemicals that pattern the transistors in the computer displaying that catalog.
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