The company provides analytical instruments, software, services and consumables for the entire laboratory workflow.Agilent focuses its products and services on six markets: food, environmental and forensics, pharmaceutical, diagnostics, chemical and energy, and research. From 1999 to 2014, the company also produced test and measurement equipment for
electronics; that division was spun off to form Keysight.
Operations
Based on 2003 information, Agilent maintained four locations in the San Francisco Bay area: San Jose, Santa Clara, Santa Rosa and Rohnert Park. Santa Clara is an R&D site, containing the Agilent Research Laboratories group.Based on 2006 information, Agilent maintained seven sites in China: an office in Beijing, and branches in Shanghai, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Shenyang, Shenzhen and Xi’an. Agilent also has several manufacturing facilities across Europe, most notably in Waldbronn Germany, Oxfordshire U.K. and Glostrup Denmark.
Products and services
Agilent serves analytical laboratories and the clinical and routine diagnostics markets with a full suite of technology platforms. These include: automation, bioreagents, FISH probes, gas and liquid chromatography, immunohistochemistry, informatics, mass spectrometry, microarrays, spectroscopy, target enrichment, and vacuum technologies.
Agilent also provides the lab management services and lab supplies: enterprise asset management, laboratory business intelligence, equipment management and service, software maintenance, regulatory compliance, sample preparation, genomics and cloning, GC and HPLC columns, spectrometry and spectroscopy supplies, and general laboratory supplies.
Agilent Technologies was created in 1999 by the spin-off of Hewlett-Packard’s (HP’s) “Medical Products and Instrument Group”, including instrumentation and chemical analysis,
electronic components, and medical equipment product lines. The split was predicated on the difficulty of growing HP’s revenue stream and on the competitive vigor of smaller, more agile competitors. The company’s launch slogan was “Innovating the HP Way”, which capitalized on the strong HP corporate culture. The starburst logo was selected to reflect “a burst of insight” (or “spark of insight”) and the name “Agilent” aimed to invoke the notion of agility as a trait of the new firm. The Agilent spin-off was accompanied by an initial public offering which raised $2.1 billion, setting a record at the time.
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