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.