| Year | Detail |
| 1958 |
Waters Corp. was incorporated as Waters Associates in 1958. |
| 1961 |
Waters Associates received its first patent. |
| 1967 |
Waters started Liquid Chromatography segment. |
| 1980 |
Waters Associates merged with Millipore Corp. |
| 1994 |
Introduced Symmetry High-Performance Liquid Chromatography. |
| 1996 |
Waters purchased TA Instruments Inc. |
| 1999 |
It launched the revolutionary Xterra. |
| 2002 |
Waters and Micromass merged. |
| 2014 |
Waters opens mass spectrometry facility in Wilmslow, U.K. |
| 2019 |
Launched Cyclic IMS. |
| 2020 |
Acquired Andrew Alliance. |
| 2021 |
Launched ACQUITY Premier System and SELECT SERIES MRT. |
| 2022 |
Opened Taunton facility: First LEED-certified chemical manufacturing facility in Massachusetts, U.S. |
| 2023 |
Acquired Wyatt Technology. |