Millipore Corporation
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| Subsidiary of Merck KGaA | |
| Industry |
Life sciences Biotech |
| Founded | 1954, Merck founded 1668 |
| Headquarters | Billerica, Massachusetts, United States |
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Key people
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Udit Batra, President and CEO |
| Products |
Filtration Pharmaceutical equipment and consumables |
| Revenue |
 $991 million USD
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Number of employees
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10,000 |
| Website | www.emdmillipore.com |
Merck Millipore (known as EMD Millipore in the United States and Canada) is the life sciences subsidiary of Merck. It was formed when Merck acquired the Millipore Corporation in 2010.
Merck Millipore is active in Europe, Asia, the Americas and Africa. Divided into three business units – Bioscience, Lab Solutions, and Process Solutions – Merck Millipore 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, was an international biosciences company, known widely for its micrometer pore-size filters and tests.
In 2015 Merck finalized its acquisition of Sigma-Aldrich, and merged Sigma-Aldrich with Merck Millipore. The combined business of Merck Millipore and Sigma-Aldrich will be known as "Merck KGaA, Darmstadt Germany".
In 1954 Jack Bush started a filtration company that would grow from a handful of employees to a multinational Life Science corporation with 6,000 employees and annual sales of $1.53 billion by 2007. This new company pioneered the use of membrane technology in hundreds of applications. Through strategic acquisitions, substantial R&D investments, and international expansion, Millipore broadened its technology and market base to become a leader in the Life Science industry. In the early 1950s Lovell Corporation won a contract from the U.S. Army Chemical Engineers to develop and manufacture membrane filtering devices and systems used to separate the molecular components of fluid samples. When the membranes were declassified in 1953 and offered for commercial use, Jack Bush, a Lovell employee, bought the company’s right to the technology for $200,000 and established the Millipore Filter Company which later changed its name to Millipore Corporation to reflect its growing range of products.
In 2010, Merck KGaA the world's oldest chemical and pharmaceutical company- acquired Millipore Corporation to form EMD Millipore.
By 1959, Millipore made porous membrane filters of cellulose esters or other materials which resembled paper in sheet form, and were brittle when dry but friable when wet.
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