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Olympus NDT is one of the leading manufacturers of nondestructive testing instruments that are used in industrial and research applications, including aerospace, energy, automotive and consumer products. The company provides inspection systems used in various applications and in the analysis of defects caused by welding, extrusion and casting. Additionally, it offers ultrasonic testing equipment, such as corrosion-thickness gauges, flaw detectors, pulser receivers and transducers. The company s ultrasonic instruments include portable and modular flaw detectors and bond testers. It offers various other products, such as probes and manual, motorized and industrial scanners. Olympus NDT has branches at various locations, including Houston; State College, Pa.; Kennewick, Wash.; East Hartford, Conn.; and Waltham, Mass.

Established in 1901, Harvard Bioscience is one of the leading developers, manufacturers, and marketers of a broad range of scientific products in the United States. It offers various scientific instruments and apparatus, used for life science research at pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, molecular, cellular and physiology universities, and government laboratories worldwide. The company sells its products in more than 100 countries through direct sales, the Internet, and various distributors. Its distributors include General Electric Co. and Fisher Scientific. Harvard Bioscience is headquartered in Holliston, Mass., and has sales and manufacturing divisions in the U.S., the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, France and Canada.

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.