About EMD Chemicals

EMD Chemicals Inc. represents the North American chemical affiliate of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany. Along with our sister company, EMD Crop BioScience, we are an international organization with more than 1,000 employees in sites across the U.S. and one site in Argentina.

With 2007 revenues of more than $US 360 million, EMD Chemicals provides specialty chemicals for pharmaceutical, biotech, cosmetic, automotive, plastics, electronics, agricultural and other industrial applications and is also engaged in the development, manufacture and distribution of a broad array of research reagents used for life science research. Our customers include major manufacturing, chemical, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, academic and research institutions, hospitals and government laboratories.

EMD Chemicals is the market leader of innovative effect pigments for coatings, packaging, plastics, automotive, and printing applications, and the world's leading manufacturer of Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) materials. EMD Chemicals is known in the market by its product brands including Iriodin^®, Xirallic^®, Rona^®, Calbiochem^®, Novabiochem^®, and Novagen^®, among others.