NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Waters today announced a land-purchase agreement with the Royal Bank of Scotland where it will build a new mass spectrometry headquarter in Wilmslow, Cheshire in the UK.
The new facility, to be situated on the 37-acre Stamford Lodge site, will bring together Waters' mass spec operations located on four separate sites in South Manchester and Altrincham. The facility will include state-of-the-art customer demonstration laboratories, R&D capabilities, and expanded manufacturing capacity.
The new headquarters "will be designed to accelerate the fate of innovation with increased access for the world's scientific thought leaders," said Brian Smith, Waters' vice president of MS business operations, said in a statement.
Final sale of the land is subject to planning and building permission from the Cheshire East Council. It is expected to open in 2013.