Waters Corporation

Waters Corporation

December 1, 2010

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Company Description

Waters Corporation is unique in that it is the only company to meet the challenges of today's discovery, development, process support, and quality control scientists by combining its own advanced separation technologies and powerful mass spectrometers in many novel ways. Our instruments, informatics, and chemistry products are designed specifically to meet the needs of laboratories for quality data and data management. Waters' post-sales support personnel consistently receive the highest marks for their breadth of knowledge and their ability to deliver support services.

Chief Chromatographic Techniques Supported

Waters has pioneered a new category of liquid chromatography — UltraPerformance LC®, or UPLC®. UPLC offers dramatic improvements in analytical resolution, sensitivity, and speed and brings new levels of productivity to laboratories, while significantly reducing solvent consumption. Compared with conventional HPLC, UPLC results are significantly better. Peaks are narrower and sharper, signal-to-noise ratios are higher, peak capacity is greater, run times are shorter. Combined with MS, UPLC reduces the effects of ion suppression and enhances the performance of virtually any mass spectrometer, allowing laboratories to run more efficiently. Other products and services include the following:

UltraPerformance LC® (UPLC® )

UPLC® –MS

LC–MS

Mass spectrometry: MALDI, TOF, QTOF, Quadrupole, Tandem Quadrupole, Ion Mobility MS

MS^E Technology

Gel-permeation chromatography

Preparative-liquid chromatography

Supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC)

Thermal analysis

GC–MS

Rheology

Microcalorimetry

Mycotoxin testing

Proficiency testing

Markets Served

Whether they work to protect the world's food and drinking water supplies, the world's art treasures, endangered wildlife, or the environment, or create therapeutics that battle disease and improve the quality of life, scientists rely on Waters technologies to help them unravel the complexities of chemistry and of life itself. Waters operates 100 offices and serves scientists in 54 countries.

Major Products/Services

Waters' main products are instruments, software, chemistries, and support services for UPLC, HPLC, and MS.Our best-known brands are:

Instruments

ACQUITY UPLC® systems

ACQUITY UPLC® H-Class systems

Alliance® HPLC systems

Xevo® mass spectrometers

SYNAPT® High Definition MS™ Systems

PATROL UPLC® Process Analyzer

MassTrak™ Clinical Solutions

MassTrak™ Forensic Solutions

TRIZAIC™ UPLC® Systems

Chemistries

ACQUITY UPLC® columns

ACQUITY UPLC® BEH Glycan columns

ACQUITY UPLC® CSH™ columns

XSelect™ columns

XBridge™ columns

Atlantis® columns

SunFire™ columns

Preparative Optimum Bed Density (OBD™) columns

Viridis™ SFC columns

Symmetry® columns

XTerra® columns

Certified vials and filtration products

DisQuE™ sample extraction products

Oasis® sample extraction products

Ostro™ sample preparation products

PoraPak™ Rxn cartridges

Sep-Pak® SPE products

Sirocco™ protein precipitation plates

Amino acid analysis columns

NanoEase™ capillary, trapping and nano-scale columns for LC–MS

Peptide, protein, and oligonucleotide separation columns

Protein-Pak™ IEX columns

RapiGest™ SF surfactant

MassPREP™ reference standards and kits

TRIZAIC UPLC nanoTile™ technology

Informatics

Empower™ chromatography software (21 CFR Part 11 compliant-ready)

MassLynx™ MS software

NuGenesis® SDMS software

Services and Support

Empower™ Driven Services

Compliance Services

Waters Quality Parts®

Waters Global Services

Educational Services

To order our chemistries on-line or to check product availability, order status, delivery timetables, and company-specific pricing, please visit www.waters.com.

In addition, Waters sells a complete line of standalone detectors, pumps, autosamplers, injectors, fraction collectors, and accessories.

Facilities

Waters operates cGMP, ISO 13485: 2003, and ISO 9001-2008-certified manufacturing plants in Milford, Massachusetts (instruments, parts); Manchester, UK (mass spectrometers), Taunton, Massachusetts (chemistries); and Wexford, Ireland (chemistries/mass spectrometers). Waters Milford facility is also approved for Part 1, Canadian Medical Device Regulations (CMDR).

Subsidiaries

TA Instruments, Inc., New Castle, Delaware.

Recent Awards

BusinessWeek Top 50 Company (2009)

Boston Globe Top 100 Places to Work (2009)

Instrument Business Outlook (IBO) Best New Product at ASMS for the XEVO TQ MS System (2008)

CustomerSAT's ACE Award for Achievement in Customer Excellence (2008)

Pittcon Editors Gold Award for the SYNAPT HDMS System (2007)

R&D 100 Award for ACQUITY UPLC System (2005)

Pittcon Editors Gold Award for the ACQUITY UPLC System (2004)

A Shortcut to Methods Development

Separations scientists looking for help developing a separation or characterization method need not look any further than waters.com. For it's here they'll find one of the largest applications databases of its kind, surpassing 50,000 individual references, abstracts, and downloadable applications literature and scientific articles. Best of all it's free.

Waters maintains the database as a service to the scientific community and continues to add new references to the database at a rapid pace. The site gives scientists the option of requesting a paper copy of articles in the database for which Waters has copyright permission.

Waters, UltraPerformance LC, UPLC, ACQUITY, ACQUITY UPLC, Alliance, Xevo, SYNAPT, PATROL UPLC, XTerra, Symmetry, Atlantis, Oasis, Sep-Pak, NuGenesis, and Waters Quality Parts are registered trademarks of Waters Corporation. High Definition MS, MassTrak, TRIZAIC, CSH, XSelect, Viridis, Protein-Pak, XBridge, SunFire, DisQuE, Ostro, OBD, RapiGest, NanoEase, MassPREP, Sirocco, nanoTile, PoraPak, Empower, MassLynx, and The Science of What's Possible are trademarks of Waters Corporation.