Merck is a global pharmaceutical and chemical company based in Germany, with a history that goes back to 1668. The company designs, develops and manufactures a wide range of specialised materials including high performance light emitting materials for OLEDs. The OLED business belongs to Mercks' Liquid-Crystal (LC) unit.
In February 2005, Merck acquired Covion, and in October 2008 Merck acquired all of OLED-T's IP.
In February 2009, we interviewed Dr. Udo Heider, VP of OLED unit at Merck.
Merck-OLED web page