Merck Opens New OLED Materials Production Plant in Darmstadt
Investment of around € 30 million
Merck announced that it has opened its new production plant for OLED materials in Darmstadt. After a 14-month construction period, high-purity OLED materials for use in state-of-the-art displays and lighting systems are being produced in the approximately 2,000 square meter building. With a total investment of around € 30 million, this is one of the largest single investments Merck has made at the Darmstadt site in recent years. The plant enables a fivefold increase in production capacity and can be started up stepwise. By 2018, Merck aims to be one of the leading suppliers of OLED materials and deliver from a single source all the chemical materials necessary for OLED displays.
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“We invested considerable resources in OLED technology early on and are excellently positioned. This applies to Darmstadt, where our OLED materials are developed and manufactured, and to countries such as Japan, Korea and China, where we operate application labs to work closely with our customers,” said Walter Galinat, CEO Performance Materials and member of the Executive Board of Merck.
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