We are a leading science and technology company in healthcare, life science and electronics. We’ve been around for 350 years – 1668! Since then, we have become a truly global company, with 63,000 employees in 67 countries working on breakthrough solutions and technologies. Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, holds the rights to the name and the trademark “MERCK” internationally except for the United States and Canada, where we operate in the biopharma market as EMD Serono, in life science as MilliporeSigma, and in the specialty chemicals and high-tech materials business area as EMD Electronics.