News Summary:
- Waters becomes the first vendor to obtain ACT™ Ecolabel
Certification for 42 of its liquid chromatography columns,
providing independent validation of the environmental impact of
Waters column manufacturing, use, packaging, and disposal.
- Laboratory products that earn the ACT Environmental Impact
Factor label make it easy for scientists and procurement
professionals to choose more sustainable lab products.
- Waters supplies its columns to tens of thousands of
laboratories worldwide spanning the life, materials, food, and
environmental sciences, used as essential components by scientists,
quality assurance experts, and analytical chemists.
ANAHEIM,
Calif. and MILFORD,
Mass., June 3, 2024 /PRNewswire/ --
72nd 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.
"Today, sustainability is very much a part of our customers'
decision-making process. Certifying Waters columns with ACT
Ecolabels makes it easier for customers to make an environmentally
conscious choice without having to sacrifice analytical performance
and results," said Erin Chambers,
Vice President, Consumables and Lab Automation, Waters Corporation.
"We have always been committed to helping customers find the right
chromatography column to solve their separation challenges. Over
the years, innovations like MaxPeak™ Premier High-Performance
Surfaces and CORTECS™ Solid Core Particles have delivered very high
robustness and efficiency to the analytical laboratory. It is a
real point of pride for us to be leading the way as the first
vendor to provide ACT Ecolabels for our LC columns."
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
runtimei 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.
Additional Resources
- Find and download ACT Ecolabels for Waters Columns in the ACT
Database
- Find the right LC columns for your applications using Waters
Column Coach
- Read the Waters 2023 ESG Report to learn about Waters
commitment to sustainability
- Follow and connect with Waters via LinkedIn, Twitter, and
Facebook
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.
Contact:
Kevin Kempskie
Senior Director of Public Relations
Waters Corporation
pr@waters.com
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
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