Waters Corporation
| Waters Corporation | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | US9418481035 |
| founding | 1958 |
| Seat | Milford, Massachusetts , USA |
| management | Christopher O'Connell |
| Number of employees | 7,000 (2017) |
| sales | US $ 2.3 billion (2017) |
| Branch | Laboratory equipment manufacturer |
| Website | www.waters.com |
Waters Corporation ( NYSE : WAT) is an American technology company based in Milford, Massachusetts . The company has around 6,500 employees and production facilities in Milford, Taunton (Massachusetts) , Wexford in Ireland, Manchester in England, Frechen in Germany and has contract manufacturing in Singapore .
Waters Corporation's main products are analytical devices from the areas of HPLC , mass spectrometry coupling, laboratory information technology, rheometry, thermal analysis and microcalorimetry.
history
Founded in 1958 by James (Jim) Logan Waters in Framingham , Massachusetts. In 1972 it merged with Millipore Inc. (now Merck Millipore ). In 1993 Waters became independent again under President and CEO Douglas A. Berthiaume . In May 1996, TA Instruments Inc. , a leading manufacturer of rheometry , thermal analysis and micro calorimetry , became a subsidiary of Waters Corporation. In 1997, Waters acquired the British mass spectrometer manufacturer Micromass , based in Manchester, for US $ 176 million.