About Millipore Lab Water Systems

What is Millipore Water?

Millipore is a science based company that develops and manufactures products in France for import into the USA and other countries.

In the 1970's a man by the name of Dick Sampson of Continental Water Systems (Texas)invented a method of purifying water using a cartridge filter based system that would produce water significantly purer then the technology of the day which was distillation. This system was called the Milli-Q.

The first Milli-Q Lab Water System

Millipore purchased Continental Water Systems in the early 1980's and was known as Continental/Millipore until it finally became simply know as Millipore.  

As the years went by, several other companies began developing lab water systems including, Barnstead/Themolyne (Iowa) and LabWater.com (Los Angeles) and several others.

Millipore, being a science company marketed these systems in universities and other scientific facilities. As testing and manufacture procedures were being developed, many labs started referring to the pure water in their laboratories to be called "Millipore Water", even when the laboratory did not have a Millipore Water System producing the water they used. The term "Millipore Water" has become a generic term for purified water suitable in a laboratory setting.

Even with much competition, Millipore has become one of the most expensive. There are many other significantly less expensive choices for producing this water and there are other manufacturers of replacement filters for Millipore Water Systems that can help you save a great deal of money while producing the water quality and quantity you need.