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Waters Corporation manufactures and distributes high-performance liquid chromatography instruments, chromatography columns and other consumables and related services. The HPLC products are utilized in a broad range of industries to detect, identify, monitor and measure the chemical, physical and biological composition of materials, and to purify a full range of compounds. Through the subsidiaries, the corporation develops and distributes mass spectrometry instruments, used along with other analytical instruments. It also provides thermal analysis for analyzing polymers. Its customers include pharmaceutical accounts, food and beverage companies, environmental testing laboratories, other industrial accounts, universities, and government agencies. Waters Corporation is headquartered in Milford, Mass., and markets HPLC products in the United States, Europe and Asia.

Our mission at Thermo Fisher is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We help our customers accelerate life sciences research, solve complex analytical challenges, improve patient diagnostics, deliver medicines to market and increase laboratory productivity.

Medica uses its proprietary knowledge of ion-selective electrodes and analytical microchemistry to manufacture a line of blood-testing analyzers. The company is engaged in the development of new technology that it will use to base future analyzers with the same characteristics. Its growth is a result of strategic focus on the worldwide need to lower health care costs. Medica is located in Bedford, Mass.