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General Information

Agilent Technologies, Inc.
Life Sciences and Chemical Analysis
5301 Stevens Creek Blvd.
Santa Clara, CA 95051

Ph: 1 800 227 9770
Email address: chem@agilent.com
Website: www.agilent.com/chem


Number of Employees:

  • Agilent - 19,000 (WW)
  • Agilent's Life Sciences and Chemical Analysis - 3,700 (WW)

Year Founded: 1999 (Split from Hewlett-Packard Corp. which was founded in 1939)

LSCA Information

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) is a global technology leader in communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis. The company's 28,000 employees serve customers in more than 110 countries. In 2003, Agilent had net revenue of $6.1 billion.

Agilent's Life Sciences and Chemical Analysis (LSCA) group is a world leading provider of instrumentation, supplies, software and services to life science and chemical analysis markets. In 2003, these markets accounted for approximately 40% and 60% respectively of LSCA's $1.2 billion in revenue.

The mission of Agilent LSCA is to contribute to the quality of life by providing innovative analysis products and services to its customers in the industrial, government and academic sectors. Agilent products and services are designed as complete solutions that enable organizations to improve their workflow productivity and efficiency. LSCA's key technology platforms include gas chromatographs (GC), liquid chromatographs (LC), mass spectrometers (MS), microarrays, and microfluidics-based devices. These technologies make possible the identification, quantification, and analysis of the atomic, molecular, physical and biological properties of thousands of substances and products.

LSCA Markets Served

Agilent LSCA is a world market leader in gas chromatography, liquid chromatography, mass spectrometry, microfluidics and compliance services, with product and technology leadership in many areas, including gene expression and proteomics analysis. Agilent's technologies are enabling significant advances in chemical and life science research.

In the life sciences, Agilent is helping organizations to advance basic research, unlock the genetic causes of disease and accelerate the discovery and development of new drugs. Agilent addresses the needs of the entire pharmaceutical value chain with solutions for gene expression, proteomics, informatics, pharmaceutical analysis (for drug development, QA/QC, and manufacturing), and regulatory compliance.

As the leading provider of chemical analysis tools, Agilent develops and markets solutions for the growing environmental, petrochemical, energy, food safety and quality, and AgBio markets, and supports homeland security with instruments and expertise in biochemical detection and forensics. LSCA also provides products to the drug testing, fuel cell, and semiconductor markets.

Major Products/Services

Agilent LSCA offers a broad range of instrumentation, laboratory supplies/consumables, software and services for life sciences and chemical analysis. These products include DNA microarrays and associated scanner, software, and reagents; microfluidics-based sample analysis systems; GC systems, columns and components; LC systems, columns and components; MS systems including quadrupole, ion trap, time-of-flight and ICP-MS; capillary electrophoresis systems; software, laboratory-computing and data networking systems. Agilent also offers multi-vendor compliance services for pharmaceutical companies.

Because uptime, productivity and system performance are critical to its customers, Agilent backs its products with a sophisticated services and support organization. In addition, Agilent provides registered customers with 24 x 7 access to information and shopping at its e-commerce site (www.agilent.com/chem).

Facilities

Agilent LSCA headquarters is located in Santa Clara California. The group has R&D facilities in Folsom and Santa Clara, Calif.; Little Falls, Del.; Waldbronn, Germany; Tokyo, Japan; and Shanghai, China.

 


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