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ANAHEIM, Calif. and MILFORD, Mass. , June 3, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- 72 nd ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics – Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT ) announced that more than 40 products within its liquid chromatography (LC) chemistry portfolio have obtained Accountability, Consistency, and Transparency ( ACT ) Ecolabels from My Green Lab , a nonprofit organization dedicated to building a global culture of sustainability in science. For more than 50 years, Waters has built a world-class reputation as a single-source manufacturer of LC column chemistries, with expertise in stationary phase synthesis, column hardware fabrication, and column packing.
Laboratory products that obtain the ACT Ecolabel make it easier for scientists to make more sustainable choices.
Waters offers a wide array of column choices and formats, including HPLC, UHPLC, GPC, SFC, and SEC, all built on reliable quality manufacturing that ensures that methods developed today will have the same repeatable results tomorrow.
Waters pioneered ultra performance liquid chromatography (UPLC) in 2004 with the launch of the ACQUITY™ UPLC™ Column, enabling the optimal use of sub 2-µm particles for the first time. With up to 9x faster separations and 80% reduction in solvent usage compared to HPLC, it is estimated that Waters ACQUITY UPLC Column and system users have saved more than 300 million hours of operational runtime i and 27 million liters of mobile phase. ii In addition, Waters is continuing to improve the sustainability of chromatography columns by redesigning packaging to replace the non-recyclable foam inserts with recycled and recyclable plastic and reducing column box sizes by 50%. iii
The Environmental Impact Factor (EIF) criteria, forming the basis for the ACT Ecolabel, was crafted with insights from scientists, sustainability directors, procurement specialists, and manufacturers. By emphasizing Accountability, Consistency, and Transparency (ACT) around manufacturing, energy and water use, packaging, and end-of-life, ACT makes it easy to choose more sustainable products. Waters ACQUITY and CORTECS Chromatography Columns are the first such products to earn the ACT Ecolabel from My Green Lab following a rigorous third-party verification process.
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About Waters Corporation ( www.waters.com )
Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT ), a global leader in analytical instruments and software, has pioneered chromatography, mass spectrometry, and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, food, and environmental sciences for more than 65 years. With approximately 7,700 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 35 countries, including 15 manufacturing facilities, and with products available in more than 100 countries.
Waters, ACQUITY, CORTECS, MaxPeak, and UPLC are trademarks of Waters Technologies Corporation. ACT is a trademark of My Green Lab , Corp.
Kevin Kempskie Senior Director of Public Relations Waters Corporation [email protected]
i Based on a 30-minute HPLC run vs. 10-minute UPLC run
ii HPLC 1.0 mL/min vs. UPLC 0.3 mL/min
iii References: Waters 2020 Sustainability Report, page 9