March 2005
At 336 years of age, Merck is the oldest chemical/pharmaceutical company in the world. Over 150 years ago Heinrich Emanuel Merck was the first to guarantee the quality of his reagents and chemicals, and this tradition is continued in the 'Guaranteed Reagent' (GR) product line covering hundreds of acids solvents and salts.
Merck South Africa is also able to offer the well known BDH and Saarchem ranges of chemicals which give the analyst a wide choice of purity and prices to enable the best price/quality choice to be made.
The fields of biotechnology and microbiology are covered by Merck's companies and manufacturing facilities, overseas and in South Africa.
In order to provide the widest possible service to laboratories Merck also offers a very comprehensive range of instruments, apparatus and consumables, selected from manufacturers with a reputation for high quality, to cover most applications.
The Speciality Chemical division of Merck supplies pigments, active ingredients, raw material and high purity chemicals for the manufacture of pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and paints.
The whole company is ISO 9001-certified to ensure quality is maintained in all aspects of the business.
Laboratory Supplies Division of merck Chemicals
Regular Features
Front cover story
Comment (Glynnis Koch)
SAIChE news
Forum
Et cetera
Envirowatch
Air Emissions
Freezing out air emissions
Jon Trembley
Process Control
Increasing the flexibility of automated start-up procedures with the inclusion of a fault accommodation strategy
L du Plessis (Sasol Technology, South Africa) ,P L de Vaal (Dept of chemical Engineering, University of Pretoria),
Safety Standards and Risk Analysis
The Bhopal tragedy - multinational corporate negligence
Daniel J E Rademeyer (ISHECON) ,
Process safety - sharing best practice - HAZARDS XVIII SYMPOSIUM, MANCHESTER, UK, NOVEMBER 2004 - Trends and implications for South Africa
Rod Prio (SHExcellence) ,
Focus on safety, standards and risk analysis
Separation
Expanding the operation leaves in distillation columns
Michael Tapp, Brendon Hausberger, Diane hildrbrandt and David Glasser (Modelling and Process Synthesis, School of Process & Materials Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand) ,
