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Waters Expands YMC Distribution Deal Worldwide

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) — Waters has expanded an American distribution agreement with YMC that now gives Waters rights to sell YMC’s column products worldwide, Waters said today.  
 
Waters had been YMC’s distributor for North, South and Central America and the Caribbean for three or four years, Waters spokesman Brian Murphy said, and now will sell their products globally.
 
YMC makes HPLC packing and columns used in liquid chromatography. Waters also said it is offering YMC’s HPLC columns application notebook, which is a database of applications for research and analysis.
 
Financial terms of the agreement were not released.

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