Waters Corporation - Entreprise - Milford. Waters Corporation Common Stock Share Price | WAT. Waters Corporation - Investor - Corporate Profile. Waters Corporation, founded in 1958 by James L. Waters and headquartered in Milford, Massachusetts, U.S.A., is the world's leading supplier of ultra performance liquid chromatography, high performance liquid chromatography, mass spectrometry, thermal analysis and rheology instrumentation and consumables. Around the world, Waters products are used by pharmaceutical, biotechnology, industrial, university, and government research & development, quality assurance, and environmental testing laboratories.
For these customers, we provide technology that gives scientists fundamental data on the composition of natural products and synthetic chemical mixtures and the physical properties of materials. An independent company since 1994, Waters and its subsidiaries employ 4,500+ persons around the world each with an average of 10 years service with the company. Our products are sold direct and through a distributor network in more than 54 countries. Waters Corporation. Waters Corporation is a publicly traded laboratory analytical instrument and software company headquartered in Milford, Massachusetts. The company employs more than 5,000 people, with manufacturing facilities located in Milford, Taunton, Massachusetts; Wexford, Ireland; Manchester, England; and contract manufacturing in Singapore. Waters markets to the laboratory-dependent organization in these market areas: liquid chromatography, mass spectrometry, supercritical fluid chromatography, laboratory informatics, rheometry and microcalorimetry.
History[edit] The business was started by James (Jim) Logan Waters as Waters Associates in an office in the basement of a police station in Framingham, Massachusetts, in 1958. Waters enrolled in the V-12 Navy College Training Program, an officer training program, and graduated from Columbia University as an ensign with a B.S. degree in Physics in 1946. In 1967, the ALC 100, the first Waters LC system, was brought to market.
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