For over 50 years, Waters Corporation has been involved in the supply of laboratory equipment in healthcare, water quality, food and environmental markets. Today they offer a portfolio of instrumentation and laboratory products specialising in separation sciences, LIMS, mass spectrometry and thermal analysis for companies and institutions worldwide.
Publishing their results for Q2 2013, Douglas Berthiaume, the Company’s Chairman, President and CEO said that it had been “… an overall disappointing performance in the second quarter.” Allowing for foreign currency effects, sales were down 2% on the previous year. When considering the fist half of the year, sales were $881 million which represents a 3% fall compared with the previous year when allowing for foreign currency effects.