Waters Acquires MOBILion Systems, Bringing Advanced Ion-Mobility Separation to its Mass Spectrometry Portfolio with the Speed and Resolution AI Workflows Require for Proteomics Biomarker Discovery

MILFORD, Mass., Nov. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), a global life sciences and diagnostics leader, today announced that it has acquired MOBILion Systems, Inc., the pioneer of SLIM high-resolution ion mobility separation technology for complex molecular analysis. The acquisition broadens Waters' entry into the proteomics market, pairing SLIM's separation power with Waters' Xevo™ MRT MS speed and resolution enabling superior bottom-up analysis of complex proteomes versus LC-MS alone.