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|Articles|December 1, 2013
- Spectroscopy-12-01-2013
- Volume 28
- Issue 12
Waters
Waters Corporation, the premium brand in the analytical instruments industry since 1958, creates business advantages for laboratory-dependent organizations by delivering practical and sustainable scientific innovation to enable significant advancements in such areas as: healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, chemical materials analysis, and water quality worldwide.
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Company Description
Waters Corporation, the premium brand in the analytical instruments industry since 1958, creates business advantages for laboratory-dependent organizations by delivering practical and sustainable scientific innovation to enable significant advancements in such areas as: healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, chemical materials analysis, and water quality worldwide. Waters helps customers make profound discoveries, optimize laboratory operations, deliver product performance, and ensure regulatory compliance by providing a connected portfolio of separations and analytical science, mass spectrometry, laboratory informatics, as well as thermal analysis products.
Technical Services
- UltraPerformance Convergence Chromatography™
- UPC2™
- UPLC®
- LC–MS
- Mass spectrometry
- Informatics
- Preparative SFC
- Purification/SFE
- Sample preparation
- Thermal analysis
- Rheology
- Microcalorimetry
- Mycotoxin testing
- Proficiency testing
Facilities
Waters operates cGMP, ISO 13485: 2003, and ISO 9001-2008-certified manufacturing plants in Milford, Massachusetts (instruments and parts); Manchester, UK (mass spectrometers); Taunton, Massachusetts (chemistries); and Wexford, Ireland (chemistries and mass spectrometers). Waters' Milford facility is also approved for Part 1, Canadian Medical Device Regulations (CMDR). The company's subsidiary, TA Instruments, Inc., is located in New Castle, Delaware.
Major Products
Instruments
- ACQUITY UPC2® systems
- ACQUITY UPLC® systems
- ACQUITY UPLC® H-Class systems
- ACQUITY UPLC® I-Class systems
- HDX technology
- ACQUITY APC™ systems
- Alliance® HPLC systems
- ACQUITY QDa™ mass detector
- Xevo® mass spectrometers
- SYNAPT® mass spectrometers
- Ion Mobility technology
- PATROL UPLC® Laboratory Analyzer
- PATROL UPLC® Process Analyzer
- MassTrak™ Clinical Solutions
- MassTrak™ Forensic Solutions
- TRIZAIC UPLC® systems
Chemistries
- ACQUITY UPC2™ columns
- ACQUITY UPLC® columns
- ACQUITY APC™ columns
- CORTECS™ solid-core UPLC columns
- XP columns
- XSelect® columns
- XBridge® columns
- Bioseparation Products
- DisQuE™ sample extraction products
- Oasis® sample extraction products
- Ostro™ sample preparation products
- TruView™ LC–MS certified vials
Analytical Standards and Reagents
- More than 200 pre-formulated reference materials and reagents for the scientific laboratory including Waters Certified Containers.
Informatics
- NuGenesis®
Software
- Empower® chromatography software (21 CFR Part 11 compliant-ready)
- MassLynx™ MS software
Services and Support
- Paradigm™ Scientific Search Software
- TransOmics™ 2.0 Informatics
- Empower® -Driven Services
- Compliance Services (IQ,OQ,PQ)
- Waters Quality Parts®
- Waters Global Services
- Educational Services
Waters Corporation
34 Maple Street
Milford, MA 01757
TELEPHONE
(508) 478-2000
(800) 252-4752
FAX
(508) 872-1990
WEB SITE
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
Worldwide: 5700
DATE FOUNDED
1958
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