Business: Waters Corporation, founded in 1958, headquartered in Milford, Massachusetts, is the world's leading supplier of ultra performance liquid chromatography, high performance liquid chromatography, mass spectrometry, thermal analysis and rheology instrumentation and consumables. Around the world, Waters products are used by pharmaceutical, biotechnology, industrial, university, and government research & development, quality assurance, and environmental testing laboratories. For these customers, they provide technology that gives scientists fundamental data on the composition of natural products and synthetic chemical mixtures and the physical properties of materials. Their products are sold direct and through a distributor network in more than 54 countries. Their subsidiary, TA Instruments, Inc., New Castle, Delaware, is the world's largest manufacturer of thermal analysis and rheological testing instruments.