In order to optimize the cost of your supply chain, it is not enough to reduce raw material costs alone.
Merck´s aim is to reduce your overall expenses by providing innovative chemicals – closely geared to your process and convenient to use. Our brochure shows examples how we can customize just the chemistry you need.

This page presents just a few of the application fields where Merck Chemicals can make your processes more secure, reliable and economical:

Special Glass Manufacturing

Producing glass for high-performance applications requires high-purity ingredients for your formulation. Moreover, you need guaranteed limits for certain trace metal impurities. Merck can offer you the specification you need – with assured constancy over time and consistent quality around the world.

View our product list: Products for the glass manufacturing industry

What’s more, Merck offers you a full range of surface treatment solutions for your glass product: from structuring to etching to coating.

Does your process require something unique? Do you have special demands? Then take a look at our brochure and see what we can do for you! Or just contact us directly to discuss your requirements!

Performance Ceramics

In producing high-performance ceramics, chemical purity is not the only crucial condition for your success. Particle size and shape also play an important role. Merck offers just the right kind of chemicals for you – with particle qualities modified to fit your needs. Accordingly, Merck also offers a wide range of inorganic nanomaterials with a huge source area.

Does your process require something unique? Do you have special demands? Then take a look at our brochure and see what we can do for you! Or just contact us directly to discuss your requirements!

Etching

Many industrial processes need to prepare material surfaces. From polishing to cleaning to increasing the roughness of metal, glass or ceramic surfaces, Merck provides any kind of acid in any feasible concentration. We also offer to create etching mixtures with custom-designed etching properties for your application.

View our product list: Products for etching

You manufacture solar cells or displays (e. g. touch panels) and want to use an economical printing technology for surface structuring? Then take a look at our new line of etching pastes isishape^™  – innovative structuring solutions for environmentally friendly processes using highly efficient etch pastes.

Does your process require something unique? Do you have special demands? Then take a look at our brochure and see what we can do for you! Or just contact us directly to discuss your requirements!

Pyrotechnics / Tracer Ammunition

To create reliable special effects, you count on constant purity and specific particle qualities. Optimal particle characteristics are also the key to success in producing tracer ammunition, especially with Barium peroxide.

Merck offers a wide range of heavy metal salts suitable for your application and in particle sizes adopted to your needs.

View our product list: Products pyrotechnics / tracer ammunition

Does your process require something unique? Do you have special demands? Then take a look at our brochure and see what we can do for you! Or just contact us directly to discuss your requirements!

Photovoltaics

In solar cell production, highest purity of raw materials is as relevant as logistic convenience and supply safety. In all these respects, Merck is your reliable partner. We provide high-quality chemicals for the production of solar cells based on both silicon technology or the new thin-film CIS technology.

View our product list: Products for CIS/CIGS technology

In order to help making your production processes of solar cells faster and more efficient, Merck has developed various innovative product lines. Under the brand name isishape™, we provide structuring solutions for silicon solar cells using highly efficient etch pastes. lisicon™  and isitron™ are novel printable polymers for the production of lightweight, flexible, and cost-efficient organic solar cells.

Does your process require something unique? Do you have special demands? Then take a look at our brochure and see what we can do for you! Or just contact us directly to discuss your requirements!

Metal Processing / Electroplating

Merck provides all it needs for preparing metal surfaces for further processing: acids and caustics as well as a wide range of detergents. Merck also designs etching mixtures according to your requests – just right for your purpose and with exactly the desired aggressiveness.

And after the surface is prepared, you can also draw on high-quality chemicals from Merck for any further treatment – provided, of course, in the right purity and ready to use for your convenience.

View our product list: Products Metal Processing / Electroplating

Does your process require something unique? Do you have special demands? Then take a look at our brochure and see what we can do for you! Or just contact us directly to discuss your requirements!