Company Waters Corporation

Waters Corporation specializes in the conception, the manufacturing and the marketing of analytical instruments. Net sales break down by activity as follows:

- sale of instruments and analytical systems (63.6%): chromatographic analysis instruments (59.5% of net sales; instruments high performance liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry), chemistry consumables (28.9%; including columns chemical separation) and thermal analysis, rheometry and calorimetry instruments (11.6%) ;

- services (36.7%): support services, training, etc.

Net sales are distributed by market between pharmaceutical (58.6%), industrial (29.9%), academic institutions and governmental agencies (11.4%).

Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (28.7%), Americas (5.1%), China (17.1%), Japan (7.6%), Asia (13.3%) and Europe (28.2%).

Number of employees: 7,900