Merck Performance Materials’ portfolio includes pigments, active ingredients and high-quality chemical raw materials. The agreement underlines Azelis’ commitment to organically grow with its key partners in Asia-Pacific.

Laurent Nataf, CEO and President Asia Pacific at Azelis, said, “Merck Performance Materials’ high-quality range will be a great asset for Azelis Vietnam, enabling us to offer innovative, tailor-made solutions to customers for their entire lateral value chain. Our dedicated application laboratories in Vietnam will play a critical role, allowing us to support our customers in formulation of innovative concepts that shorten their time to market and help them become and remain market leaders in their industries. This new agreement is also an important acknowledgement of our continuous efforts to be a preferred and trusted partner on a global scale.”

Panutin Tantichuwet, Head of Commercial Southeast Asia and Australia/New Zealand at Merck, added, “Azelis is a global leader in specialty chemicals distribution. Their local technical sales team will help us focus on enhanced services to our customers in Vietnam, where we aim to improve customer intimacy, innovation and technology effort. We are confident that thanks to our strong collaboration with Azelis, we will be able to serve Merck’s customers even better for future business growth.”

Azelis has significantly grown in Asia-Pacific during the last five years, establishing presence in 11 countries and opening more than 25 laboratories.