Dionex Corporation (Dionex) designs, manufactures, markets, and services analytical instrumentation, related accessories, and chemicals. Its products are used to analyze chemical substances in the environment and in a range of industrial and scientific applications. Dionex designs, manufactures, markets, and services a range of liquid chromatography systems, sample preparation devices, and related products used by chemists to separate and quantify the individual components of chemical mixtures relevant to many industrial, research, and laboratory markets. Its liquid chromatography systems are focused in two product areas: ion chromatography (IC) and high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). Dionex offers a mass spectrometer detector coupled with either IC or HPLC systems. For sample preparation, it provides accelerated solvent extraction (ASE) systems and AutoTrace instruments. In addition, it develops and manufactures consumables, detectors, automation, and analysis systems.