Agilent Technologies Deutschland GmbH

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A), headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., is a global technology leader in electronic and bioanalytical instrumentation for communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis. The company's approximately 17,000 employees support customers in more than 110 countries. In 2009, Agilent generated sales of $4.5 billion. Agilent in Germany Agilent Technologies in Germany employs around 1,200 people, most of them in Böblingen near Stuttgart and in Waldbronn near Karlsruhe. At the Böblingen site, optical and high-frequency digital technologies are developed and produced. Whether component or system manufacturers, network operators or service providers - they all rely on agile instruments when it comes to developing and manufacturing extremely powerful network elements. Agilent's optical and electronic signal generators as well as its protocol testers are among the world's leading test and measurement products. Up to 100 Gigabit fast digital signals (100 billion bits per second) are generated and analyzed. The subsidiary of the Life Sciences and Chemical Analytics business unit in Waldbronn develops and produces market-leading complete analytical solutions for liquid chromatography and other separation technologies used by the pharmaceutical and chemical industries as well as research institutions. These systems can be used to separate substances in the liquid phase, for example to detect and analyze proteins in nano-quantities (billionths of a gram). Agilent's customers benefit from these technologies in research into the genetic causes of diseases, in the search for new active ingredients and in the development and quality assurance of drugs.