Milestones

Over the past 50 years, Millipore has introduced thousands of new products, expanded its operations around the world, acquired and divested numerous businesses, and reinvented itself several times to keep pace with evolving customer needs. Here are some of the key milestones representative of Millipore’s changes and growth over the past five decades.

1950s

1954: Jack Bush purchases the rights to a new membrane-production process developed by Lovell Chemical Company (his employer) of Watertown, Massachusetts.

1954: Millipore Filter Corporation is officially incorporated (on May 3).

1954: Jack Bush becomes president (and later chairman) of Millipore. Jack is the son of Vannevar Bush, science advisor to President Roosevelt in World War II.

1955: Millipore receives its first patent -- for microporous nylon film invented by Stanley Lovell and Jack Bush.

1958: Millipore moves its headquarters to Bedford, Massachusetts, a site that expanded as the company grew.

1960s

1964: Millipore establishes its first subsidiary in France – the beginning of a robust presence in Europe and around the world.

1964: Millipore publishes its first paper on record in a scholarly journal, on gas chromatographic effluents for infrared spectral analysis -- by Paul Thomas and Jim Dwyer. ("Journal of Chromatography", Volume A, pages 366–371.)

1967: Millipore introduces the Super-Q water purification system.

1967: Millipore establishes a subsidiary in Germany.

1968: Millipore establishes a subsidiary in Japan.

1968: Millipore introduces its Pellicon cassette product, critical in its new iterations to purifying biotherapeutics.

1970s

1971: Millipore introduces the original Millex syringe filter -- the first disposable syringe filter.

1972: Millipore establishes a subsidiary in Spain.

1972: Millipore now employs 700 people, has subsidiaries in 11 countries, markets 3,000 products and boasts annual sales of $25 million.

1972: Millipore opens a manufacturing plant in Jaffrey, New Hampshire – a site that has expanded over the years to meet emerging customer needs.

1973: Millipore starts manufacturing in Molsheim, France, picked for its location in the center of Europe.

1973: Millipore introduces the Milli-Q water purification system, the world’s first lab-scale ultra pure water system (the first of many Milli-Q generations to come).

1978: Millipore reaches the $100 million revenue milestone.

1978: Millipore opens a manufacturing plant in Danvers, Massachusetts – a site that eventually becomes the headquarters of the Life Sciences (now Biosciences) Division.

1979: Millipore acquires Waters Associates Inc. of Milford, Massachusetts – producer of chromatographic media and HPLC instrumentation.

1979: Millipore opens a manufacturing plant in Cidra, Puerto Rico, to help meet the rapidly expanding needs of customers worldwide.

1980s

1980: Millipore introduces its low-protein binding Durapore membrane, used to purify millions of doses of critical pharmaceuticals and biopharmaceuticals over the years.

1980: Dee d’Arbeloff is named CEO of Millipore.

1983: President Ronald Reagan visits Millipore and tours the Bedford, Massachusetts facility. He said, “I have seen the future and it is here.”

1984: John Mulvany is named CEO of Millipore.

1985: Millipore establishes the Millipore Foundation, to oversee the company’s charitable giving activities.

1986: A tragic helicopter crash claims the lives of Jack Mulvany (chairman and CEO), Adrian Reti (director of science and technology), Vincent Mastricola (analytical laboratory manager) and Robert Girouard (helicopter pilot).

1986: John Gilmartin is named CEO of Millipore.

1987: Millipore is listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Previously Millipore had been listed on NASDAQ, but made the switch after “Black Monday”, when NASDAQ stocks plummeted farther then NYSE stocks.

1987: Millipore reaches the $500 million revenue milestone.

1988: Millipore opens a manufacturing plant in Cork, Ireland, to help meet growing worldwide demand for products.

1989: Millipore holds the first satellite teleseminar in the industry, titled “Bioresearch tools for the 90s”.

1990s

1991: Millipore begins implementing Oracle-based business systems, a competitive advantage with the complexity and volume of the company’s products and services.

1994: Millipore divests its Waters Chromatography Division and focuses on its membrane business.

1994: Millipore launches its website (www.millipore.com), becoming the first company in its industry to do so.

1996: Bill Zadel is named CEO of Millipore.

1996: Millipore acquires the Amicon separation sciences business from W.R. Grace and Co.

1997: Millipore acquires Tylan General to expand gas purification offerings for the microelectronics industry.

1999: Millipore acquires Bioprocessing Limited, a developer and manufacturer of chromatography media based in Consett, U.K.

2000s

2001: Fran Lunger is named CEO of Millipore.

2001: Millipore spins off its microelectronics business (Mykrolis) and refocuses exclusively on its biosciences business – a major change in direction and focus.

2002: Millipore opens its Biopharmaceutical Technology Center in Billerica, Massachusetts – an innovative, customer-focused facility.

2002: Millipore moves its corporate headquarters from Bedford to Billerica, Massachusetts, to make room for a new state-of-the-art research center in Bedford.

2002: Millipore expands its facility in Danvers, Massachusetts, new headquarters for the Life Sciences (now Bioscience) Division.

2004: Millipore breaks ground on a new European headquarters facility in Molsheim, France.

2004: Millipore celebrates its 50th anniversary.

2005: Martin Madaus is named chairman and CEO of Millipore.

2005: Millipore acquires MicroSafe, a European contract testing laboratory based in Leiden, The Netherlands.

2005: Millipore acquires NovAseptic, a worldwide supplier of aseptically designed components for critical applications in biotech and pharmaceutical production, based in Gothenburg, Sweden.

2005: Millipore forms an alliance with Gen-Probe, a California-based firm, to develop, manufacture and commercialize products for rapid microbiological and virus monitoring in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries.

2006: Millipore acquires Newport Bio Systems, a California-based company that makes process containers and systems used in biopharmaceutical production.

2006: Millipore acquires Serologicals Corporation (which includes the companies Chemicon, Upstate, Linco, and Celliance), a Georgia-based corporation whose product lines significantly expand Millipore's drug discovery and development footprint.

2006: Millipore opens a new Research and Development Center in Bedford, Massachusetts.

2007: Millipore relaunches its brand to signify the company’s transformation, through acquisitions and organic growth, into a Life Science leader providing technologies, tools and services for bioscience research and biopharmaceutical manufacturing.

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