Waters Corporation
| Formerly | Waters Associates |
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| Company type | Public |
| Industry | Life sciences |
| Founded | 1958 in Framingham, Massachusetts, U.S |
| Founder | James Logan Waters |
| Headquarters | Milford, Massachusetts, U.S. |
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| Revenue | US$2.958 billion (2024) |
| US$826 million (2024) | |
| US$638 million (2024) | |
| Total assets | US$4.553 billion (2024) |
| Total equity | US$1.828 billion (2024) |
Number of employees | c. 7,600 (2024) |
| Website | waters |
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Waters Corporation is an American company headquartered in Milford, Massachusetts that provides analytical instruments and software used for chromatography, mass spectrometry, laboratory informatics, and rheometry by the life sciences, materials, and food industries.
The company has primary manufacturing facilities in 9 U.S. locations as well as 11 international locations including Wexford, Wilmslow, Birmingham, Hüllhorst, Singapore, Bangalore, Beijing, and Shanghai.
Major brands include ACQUITY UPC2 / UPLC Systems and columns, Xevo mass spectrometry systems, Synapt MS / HDMS systems, Zodiac HPLC columns, XTerra HPLC columns, XBridge columns, Alliance HPLC systems, Empower chromatography software, MassLynx mass spectrometry software, Oasis sample preparation products, and NuGenesis lab management system (LMS).
Its primary competitors are Agilent Technologies, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Revvity, and Danaher.