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Merck Sharp &
Dohme (Singapore) Ltd and Merck Sharp & Dohme Technology Singapore
Pte Ltd are wholly owned subsidiaries of Merck & Co.,
headquartered in Whitehouse Station, NJ., USA. Merck is a global
research-driven pharmaceutical company that discovers, develops,
manufactures and markets a broad range of innovative products to
improve human and animal healths, directly and through its joint
ventures. Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD) is the name Merck uses for
conducting its business outside the USA.
Located
at Singapore Tuas Biomedical Park, the manufacturing facilities of
MSD Singapore comprise of a bulk active pharmaceutical ingredient
(API) plant and a pharmaceutical formulation plant. The API plant
is a flexible and multi-product operation capable of producing
various APIs including etoricoxib and montelukast
sodium. The pharmaceutical formulation plant is a tableting
operation with a planned product combining simvastatin and
ezetimibe.
Merck
& Co., Inc. also has established a local sales and marketing
subsidiary in Singapore known as Merck Sharp & Dohme (I.A.)
Corp. Singapore, which markets and sells prescription pharmaceutical
products to doctors and pharmacists. For
more information on MSD (I.A.) Corp. Singapore, please visit their
home page by clicking here.
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