Waters Corporation

Waters Corporation
FormerlyWaters Associates
Company typePublic
IndustryLife sciences
Founded1958 (1958) in Framingham, Massachusetts, U.S
FounderJames Logan Waters
HeadquartersMilford, Massachusetts, U.S.
Key people
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)
Websitewaters.com
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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.