WATERS CORP

Waters Corporation is a global leader in analytical instruments and software, with over 65 years of innovation in chromatography, mass spectrometry, and thermal analysis for life, materials, and food sciences. The company primarily designs, manufactures, sells, and services high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), ultra-performance liquid chromatography (UPLC), and mass spectrometry (MS) technology systems. These systems are often used together as integrated LC-MS instrument systems with common software platforms. Waters also provides support products, including chromatography columns, other consumable products, and post-warranty service plans. The company's products are utilized by pharmaceutical, clinical, biochemical, industrial, nutritional safety, environmental, academic, and governmental customers for research and development, quality assurance, and other laboratory applications. LC is a standard technique used across industries to detect, identify, monitor, measure, and purify compounds. MS technology, often with chromatography, is employed in drug discovery and development, clinical trial testing, proteomics, nutritional safety analysis, and environmental testing. Additionally, Waters designs, manufactures, sells, and services thermal analysis, rheometry, and calorimetry instruments through its TA Instruments (TA) product line. These instruments predict the suitability and stability of fine chemicals, pharmaceuticals, water, polymers, metals, and viscous liquids for various industrial, consumer goods, healthcare products, and life science research. Waters Corporation also develops and supplies advanced software-based products that interface with its own instruments and those from other manufacturers. Waters Corporation, a Delaware corporation organized in 1991, is a holding company for its operating subsidiary, Waters Technologies Corporation, and became publicly traded in November 1995.