Defining

THE SCIENCE OF WHAT’S POSSIBLE

1958. James L. Waters founded Waters Associates in the basement of a town police station. His entrepreneurial spirit drove him to explore all of the possibilities that his “what if?” questions conjured up. Exploring the answers led him to build a core of connections — some who would become colleagues and others who would become customers — whose love of scientific exploration and discovery matched his own.

Today, Jim Waters’ restless spirit and demanding intelligence still guides the worldwide organization we have become. We are committed to our culture of science in service to humanity.

We are in daily pursuit of:

THE SCIENCE OF WHAT’S POSSIBLE.

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Push the boundaries of WHAT’S POSSIBLEand unleash THE SCIENCE to make it a reality in:

ChemicalMaterialsFoodPharmaceutical Environmental Health Sciences

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Having a keen understanding of our customers’ business challenges is the essential first step to solving their challenges. Listening and questioning are fundamental to our process, and our science begins with “what if?”

It’s this environment of restless imagination that

leads us to breakthroughs in analytical instruments.

We’re constantly looking for ways to expand the reach of research for customers through our core technologies:

CUSTOMERS ARE THE KEY TO PURPOSEFUL INNOVATION

Chromatography systems that separate and analyze complex compounds.

World-class instruments that enable you to detect compounds by mass, charge, shape, and/or size.

Chromatography Mass Spectrometry

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CUSTOMERS ARE THE KEY TO PURPOSEFUL INNOVATION

Purposeful innovations are always the result of collaborative vision.

Our daily mission is to provide scientists with the

analytical laboratory tools to advance the scientific

understanding that drives real-world decisions. This

insistence on purposeful innovation has resulted in

many game-changing breakthroughs:

n UPLC,® which changed the landscape

of the separations industry

Waters Analytical Standards and Reagents

Informatics

Highly engineered chemical consumables for use in sample preparation and chromatographic columns.

Innovative software for data and workflow management in the lab and throughout the enterprise.

Waters Service

Combining technology

expertise with a deep

understanding of each

customer’s needs,

Waters Service works

with customers to help

them realize the full

benefit of every Waters

product they use.

A comprehensive portfolio of reference materials, calibrators, and other reagents created by our analytical scientists.

Chemistry Consumables

n Empower,® the de facto standard chromatography

data software

n Ion mobility within mass spectrometry, which

enabled researchers to determine molecules

in multiple dimensions

n The first commercial quadrupole time-of-flight

mass spectrometer

n Innovations for separations at the micro-scale

and on the manufacturing floor

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PURPOSEFUL INNOVATION RESULTS IN MEANINGFUL IMPACT

In our company, leading-edge science takes its direction from where our customers point us.

Energized to meet a challenge, we often find the

solution takes us to unanticipated discoveries, one

following another like a trail that seems inevitable

in hindsight, but in reality was a product of our

scientific curiosity.

Listening to the outside world… to change the world from inside our customers’ labs. THAT’S HOW WE DEFINE IMPACT.

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We take seriously our responsibility to every organization that depends on accuracy and reliability from its labs.

And we are very conscious of the fact that for any

analytical technology in a working laboratory to be

truly useful, it should be easy to use.

COBALAMIN

Waters’ early LC instruments led to the first total synthesis of Vitamin B-12 (cobalamin) — vital to the proper function of human nervous systems.

PEDIGREE

From the very beginning, Waters attracted blue-chip customers, including Dow Chemical, B.F. Goodrich, and Mobil.

PURPOSEFUL INNOVATION RESULTS IN MEANINGFUL IMPACT

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Our business is all about What’s Possible.

Not too long ago, we could not safely assume that

our drinking water was reliably safe… or that our

medicines had the necessary quality controls…

or that our food supplies were uncontaminated.

Today, all of those critical aspects of life are not

only possible, but in many parts of the globe they

are expected. A natural part of daily life. And

every year, these improvements are brought to

more countries, more communities, and more

individuals as these possibilities become realities

for more parts of the world.

That’s Waters at work.

SCIENCE IN THE SERVICE OF IMPROVING LIVES

MELAMINE

When hundreds of thousands of infants in China became seriously ill, Waters instruments identified this additive as the cause. Its use was banned.

LIPITOR®

One of the most successful medicines ever introduced, it was developed using Waters instrumentation and chemistries.

GAMBIA

Waters’ gift of the first mass spectrometer in West Africa enabled early detection and treatment of people with hepatitis B infection in the region.

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Our business is all about The Science.

What we do only matters when it impacts the

world. Waters served as the driving force behind

the creation of International Food Safety Training

Laboratories (IFSTL), a groundbreaking network

of public-private partnerships that apply govern-

ment, university, and private industry expertise and

resources to the global food safety challenge. Every

day, we focus our science on improving lives.

SCIENCE IN THE SERVICE OF IMPROVING LIVES

BRINGING RELIEF

Global biopharm giant UCB employs a key Waters technology — HDX — to help develop medicines for those suffering from Epilepsy, Parkinson’s, and Crohn’s.

DRINK UP

Waters’ solutions provide complete and efficient water quality analysis, making sure the water we drink is safe.

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SCIENCE FOR A SAFER, GREENER, AND CLEANER WORLD

quality worldwide. Waters customers are able to

take our technologies and push the boundaries of

discovery. The results — improved upon daily —

are better medical care, breakthrough medicines,

more carefully screened foods, and purer water.

The powerful combination of Waters and our

customers is making a safer, greener, and cleaner

world possible.

With the world’s population at well over seven billion and increasing every day, the role of science is critical in addressing the challenges to the health and well-being of both people and planet.

Our mission is to provide scientists with

analytical laboratory solutions that advance

scientific understanding in healthcare delivery,

environmental management, food safety, and water

DOPING

The integrity of world records is no game. Waters ACQUITY UPLC/tandem quad MS instruments make sure the athletes are clean.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Because packaging should never become part of food content, Waters technologies enable the characterization of polymers and polymer additives in packaging.

EDIBLE?

To protect the food supply, Waters developed a method to test a food sample for 402 different pesticides in a single -minute experiment.10

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SCIENCE FOR A SAFER, GREENER, AND CLEANER WORLD

CLEANER

Scientists seeking ways to assure the water quality in Lake Geneva, Switzerland, rely on Waters instruments to search for and identify contaminants in the water.

Thinking long-term sustainability

Waters’ mission is inherently a sustainability mission.

Our brand, The Science of What’s Possible, is a daily

reminder of our commitment to provide the technolo-

gies that enable our customers — scientists from a

broad range of disciplines — to address the most

challenging problems facing human health and

progress while remaining good stewards of our earth.

The Science of What’s Possible means the search for

the best resolution of all possibilities.

GREEN

ACQUITY UPLC® uses an average of 75% less solvent per sample while exceeding performance expectation of our demanding customers.

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ACHIEVING TRUE PARTNERSHIP

Customer success demands more than supplying analytical instruments.

It requires us to have a deep comprehension of the

business environments and competitive pressures

that each customer faces. It means establishing

and maintaining a level of confidence in Waters

so they can rely on us in determining their business

decisions. It means providing all of our customers

— businesses, academic, and research institutions

— with the tools and collaborative expertise to

answer long-standing scientific questions and

have complete certainty in their discoveries.

Every stakeholder has a view as to what is

important, and we have to listen carefully,

thoughtfully, and honestly to each one’s goals.

HIGH GRADES

How do you measure exceptional ease of use? Waters Open Access software makes it easy for students in UC Irvine (CA) to run mass spectrometry experiments.

HERBS

Researchers are using Waters ACQUITY UPLC and SYNAPT

® HDMS™ to profile specific ingredients in Chinese medicinal herbs for possible use in new pharmaceuticals.

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All of this requires an open and intelligent dialogue

among professionals with the highest degree of

respect for one another. That’s how one success

builds to another, and then more beyond those.

At Waters, we take the long view of our professional

relationships. A true partnership is one that endures.

UNITY OF PURPOSE

Waters partners with the world’s top 50 pharmaceutical companies.

HIV

An ACQUITY® TQD System is helping the University of Buffalo to accelerate research into the treatment of HIV and AIDS-related illnesses.

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The Waters way of doing business

…was established right from the beginning:

listen closely to customers’ needs, remain open to

all possibilities, and move forward together.

We understand our strengths: using laboratory

science to bring broad-ranging benefits to

businesses, the environment, the well-being of

the world’s inhabitants, and to the advancement

of science itself.

From five employees to a presence in countries

around the globe, Waters has consistently focused

on growing to meet the needs of our customers.

We are a company based on proving our mettle

every day and building relationships that last

through decades.

Even as we strive to continually bring innovation

to our core technologies, we are very aware that

technology is only part of our mission. From our

research scientists to our service organization,

we are committed to directing all of our energy

to our customers’ success.

WATERS + YOU = ENDURING SUCCESS

PURE BEAUTYPurity is critical in food, medicines, and even cosmetics. University researchers used Waters mass spectrometers to develop methods of identifying adulterations of high-end perfumes in minutes.

WATERS + YOU = ENDURING SUCCESS

From the first GPC-100 to today, the drive for purposeful innovation, meaningful impact, and the enduring success of our customers defines who we are. It’s a message taken to heart by our thousands of employees in dozens of countries around the globe.

Take care to listen to our customers.

Make sure to see beyond today.

Pursue:

THE SCIENCE OF WHAT’S POSSIBLE.

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