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Business Profile

WATERS TECHNOLOGIES

What James Waters began in traded corporation with more than and they essentially perform
an office basement of a police 7,000 employees; operating directly chemical analysis. They separate
station in Framingham, MA, in 31 countries, its products are and measure the constituents of
USA, has evolved into a $2.2 available in more than 100. a sample; this could be water,
billion corporation serving tens Celebrating 20 years in Wexford, blood or a pharmaceutical
of thousands of scientists all Waters Technologies employs 330 mixture, and our technology
over the world, and its company people, having grown from just 20 deciphers what is in that sample
values of ‘Delivering Benefit’ staff upon opening in 1997. The and how much of each element it
have not wavered since. contains. Simply put, an HPLC
plant is a state of the art 145,000
Almost 60 years in business, sq ft manufacturing facility, which system will separate a sample
into its chemical components
Waters Technologies is the world’s is instrumental to Waters’ global and an MS system identifies
leading specialty measurement manufacturing strategy. compounds by their molecular
company, delivering benefit weight. The Wexford product
through innovations and people output is used in laboratories
that enable customer success AT WATERS, WE STRIVE around the world to test materials
in the life, materials and food in the pharmaceutical, food,
sciences. Specifically, the company TO CREATE A WORKPLACE environmental and other sectors.
designs, manufactures, sells and CULTURE THAT REWARDS
services ultra performance liquid “Our technology has many
chromatography (UPLC), high HIGH PERFORMANCE important applications, for
ABOVE:
Waters performance liquid chromatography AND ENCOURAGES AND example, it is used to determine
Technologies (HPLC), chromatography columns the results of newborn baby
and chemistry products, mass FACILITATES INCLUSION, screening. It plays a fundamental
spectrometry (MS) systems, thermal PARTICIPATION, AND role in quality control testing
analysis and rheometry instruments. of many products including
RESPECT
With a hard-earned reputation for pharmaceuticals such as the
applications expertise, dedication common Aspirin tablet. When
to customer success, and post-sales Senior Director of Wexford there is a scare with food
support, Waters stands out among Operations Liam Hore tells product contamination, Waters
its peers and year after year is one us that, in terms of operations Technologies instruments are used
of the best-performing companies at the Wexford facility, “Our to check if proper standards and
in the industry. It is a publicly products are quite complex specifications are being adhered to.”

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