Waters Becomes First Liquid Chromatography Column Provider to Receive My Green Lab ACT Ecolabel Certification

"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. 

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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.

Contact:

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

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