Merck Millipore Opens Lab Water Production Facility in China

The site will manufacture the Ming Che series of tailor-made lab water purification systems and consumables, which will be sold exclusively in China.

Merck Millipore, the life science division of Germany's Merck, has opened its lab water production plant in Shanghai, China.

The site will manufacture the Ming Che series of tailor-made lab water purification systems and consumables, which will be sold exclusively in China.

The Ming Che products will cater to laboratories at private research facilities, contract research organisations, universities, government and academic institutes, as well as clinical centres, with applications ranging from in vitro diagnostics to pharmaceutical vaccine production and sterile food packaging.

Robert Yates, president of Merck Millipore said,"The rapid growth of the pharmaceutical, healthcare and life science