Waters Corporation, headquartered in Milford, Massachusetts, provides analytical instruments and software used for chromatography, mass spectrometry, laboratory informatics, and rheometry by the life, materials and food sciences industries. The company has primary manufacturing facilities in 9 U.S. locations as well as 11 international locations including Wexford, Wilmslow, Birmingham, Hüllhorst, Singapore, Bangalore, Beijing, and Shanghai. Major brands include ACQUITY UPC² / UPLC Systems and columns, Xevo mass spectrometry systems, Synapt MS / HDMS systems, Zodiac HPLC columns, XTerra HPLC columns, XBridge columns, Alliance HPLC systems, Empower chromatography software, MassLynx mass spectrometry software, Oasis sample preparation products, and NuGenesis lab management system. The company's primary competitors are Agilent Technologies, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Revvity, and Danaher. Wikipedia