Merck KGaA (EMD Electronics)
Merck KGaA (EMD Electronics) is a major in the Materials segment of the semiconductor & AI supply chain, headquartered in Darmstadt, DE. Its key customers include Intel, Samsung Electronics, SK hynix.
Supplies deposition materials, spin-on dielectrics and specialty gases.
- Ticker
- FWB: MRK
- Headquarters
- Darmstadt, DE
- Founded
- 1668
- Employees
- 60,348
- Revenue
- $24.5B (FY2025) · -0.3% YoY
- Net income
- $3.0B
- Operating margin
- 13.9%
- Market position
- major
- Value-chain segment
- Photoresists & Chemicals, Specialty Gases
- Key products
- deposition precursors, spin-on materials
About Merck KGaA (EMD Electronics)
Merck KGaA (EMD Electronics), headquartered in Germany, operates in the Photoresists & Chemicals and Specialty Gases segments of the semiconductor & AI supply chain and is positioned as a market major there. Its key products include deposition precursors, spin-on materials. wafergraph maps 5 tracked customers for Merck KGaA (EMD Electronics) across the value chain. It has a supply-chain criticality score of 68/100, with 237 companies downstream of it.
The Merck Group, branded and commonly known as Merck, is a German multinational science and technology company headquartered in Darmstadt, with about 60,000 employees and a presence in 66 countries. The group includes around 250 companies; the main company is Merck KGaA in Germany. The company is divided into three business lines: Healthcare, Life Sciences and Electronics. Merck was founded in 1668 and is the world's oldest operating chemical and pharmaceutical company, as well as one of the largest pharmaceutical companies globally.
Role in the chain
Merck KGaA (EMD Electronics) is a market major in Materials (Photoresists & Chemicals), headquartered in Germany. Supplies deposition materials, spin-on dielectrics and specialty gases.
Diligence questions
- The dataset names 5 tracked customers for Merck KGaA (EMD Electronics). How concentrated is demand among those names, and which of them have a documented second source in this graph?
- Merck KGaA (EMD Electronics) is headquartered in Germany. What jurisdiction, export-control or logistics risk sits at that HQ, versus at the fabs or plants the filings actually name?
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Key products
- deposition precursors
- spin-on materials
Customers
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Cite as: wafergraph, “Merck KGaA (EMD Electronics) — supply chain, financials & market position”, https://wafergraph.com/company/merck_kgaa (data as of 2026-09-05).
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