Merck KGaA says lab 供給（する）s 商売／仕事 can grow by up to 10% per year
By Ludwig Burger
FRANKFURT, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Germany's Merck KGaA on Thursday 問題／発行するd a more ambitious medium-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 growth 予測（する） for its Life Science 部隊, as 製造業者s of COVID-19 ワクチンs and 治療s snap up its 構成要素s and gear.
Life Science 分割 歳入s are now 推定する／予想するd to grow 7% to 10% per year until 2025, 除外するing the 影響 of 通貨s and 取得／買収s, 意味ありげに above market growth and higher than a previous goal of 6% to 9%, the diversified company said.
Pandemic-関係のある 需要・要求する would 沈下する until 2025 but underlying 需要・要求する for lab 供給（する）s would continue to be driven by the 開発 of new biotech 麻薬s and by 中国's ambitions to 養育する an innovative 製薬の 産業.
"Life Science will sharpen its 焦点（を合わせる） on the Asia-太平洋の 地域, 特に 中国, 同様に as on 革新s and 数字表示式の 解答s in all 商売／仕事s," the company said in a 声明 on its 資本／首都 markets day on Thursday.
The 株 were up 2.4% at 0730 GMT, outperforming a 0.6% 拒絶する／低下する in the STOXX Europe 600 Health Care 索引.
需要・要求する from the biotech 産業 has also fuelled the rise of フランス系カナダ人-German lab gear and 供給（する）s 製造者 Sartorius , competing with Merck in コンビナート／複合体 器具／備品, to soon join Germany's blue-半導体素子 索引 DAX.
Family-controlled Merck said it 推定する／予想するs group sales to grow organically by more than 6% per year on 普通の／平均（する） through 2025, driven by 需要・要求する for the Life Science 部隊's bioprocessing 製品s, new 製薬のs and 半導体 化学製品s.
That would 解除する 2025 group sales to about 25 billion euros ($30 billion), up from 17.5 billion in 2020.
Having 減ずるd its 負債 from the 5.8 billion euro 引き継ぎ／買収 of electronics 構成要素s 製造者 Versum in 2019, Merck will now 上げる 投資s in 工場／植物s and 器具／備品 and 研究 and 開発 through 2025 by more than half compared with the previous five years.
It will also have の近くに to 10 billion euros to spend on ac quisitions from the end of next year, though smaller and medium-sized 取引，協定s are more likely.
The Life Science 部隊, mostly made up of 商売／仕事s 以前は known as Millipore and Sigma Aldrich, has より勝るd the 製薬のs 部隊 as Merck's main 収入s driver, now accounting for about 45% of adjusted group 収入s. ($1 = 0.8457 euros) (報告（する）／憶測ing by Ludwig Burger, editing by Thomas Escritt and Elaine Hardcastle)
