Agilent Technologies
| Agilent Technologies, Inc.
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | US00846U1016 |
| founding | 1999 |
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Santa Clara , United States
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| management | Michael R. McMullen |
| Number of employees | 14,800 |
| sales | $ 4.9 billion |
| Branch | scientific equipment |
| Website | www.agilent.com |
| As of October 31, 2018 | |
The Agilent Technologies, Inc. , also briefly Agilent , is an American technology company , headquartered in Santa Clara , California , the analytical instruments manufactured.
history
Agilent was founded in 1999 as an offshoot of five divisions of Hewlett-Packard, which was founded in 1939 . Since June 2, 2000, Agilent Technologies has been an independent company. The Healthcare / Medical Products department, which emerged from the takeover of Sanborn by HP in 1950, was sold to Philips Medical Systems in 2001 , and in 2005 the Agilent Technologies Semiconductor Products Group was acquired by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) and Silver Lake Partners Semiconductor manufacturer Avago (now Broadcom ) founded. In 2006, the department for SOC and memory testers was founded into an independent company, which was listed as Verigy on NASDAQ from mid-2006 (today bought by Advantest). In June 2007 Agilent took over the German adaptif PHOTONICS GmbH, in May 2010 Varian Inc. In 2014 the company spun off the electronic measurement technology division. The Keysight Technologies company emerged from this .
Currently (2016) around 14,800 people are employed in all locations worldwide. Agilent Technologies in Germany employs around 1000 people, most of them in Waldbronn . Further Agilent offices are located in Frankfurt , Ratingen and Munich .
Mike McMullen has been CEO of Agilent Technologies since 2015, succeeding William P. Sullivan. Agilent describes itself as "a developer, manufacturer and supplier of devices, systems and solutions in the field of analytical measurement technology."
Products
Agilent's main products are gas chromatographs (GC), high-performance liquid chromatographs ( HPLC ), UV / VIS spectrometers , mass spectrometers and optical emission spectrometers with inductively coupled plasma (ICP-MS or ICP-OES), capillary electrophoresis devices (CE) and DNA / RNA microarrays . Also, vacuum pumps , automatic sampler and sample preparation systems are available.
Various detectors are available for HPLC, for example a UV diode array detector (DAD), a refractive index detector (RI), a fluorescence detector (FLD), and a light scatter detector (ELSD).
A flame ionization detector (FID), thermal conductivity detector (TCD), electron capture detector (ECD) and various special detectors are offered for the GC .
Both classic capillary electrophoresis (CE capillary electrophoresis ) and microfluidic products such as bioanalyzer and chip LC / MS (chip liquid chromatography / mass spectrometry) are offered.
An important business area is the coupling of GC, HPLC and CE with mass spectrometry (GC-MS, HPLC-MS, CE-MS). The numerous coupling technologies offered by Agilent for mass spectrometers and chromatography devices make the company one of the world's leading manufacturers of mass spectrometers. Among other things, mass spectrometers with quadrupole ( MSD ), ion trap and flight tube technology ( TOF , time of flight ) are available both in the form of single and multiple mass spectrometers (Q-TOF: quadrupole with flight tube, QQQ: three quadrupoles in series).
GC, HPLC and CE can also be coupled with the ICP-MS .
The investment subsidiary Agilent Ventures supports high tech start-up companies .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c 2018 Annual Report. (PDF) Agilent, December 20, 2018, accessed October 26, 2019 .