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Microwave Digestion

Reliable and professional sample preparation is as important as the analysis itself.

Microwave digestion has become the benchmark technology in preparing samples for AAS, ICP and ICP-MS. One of the most obvious reasons is the time saving associated with microwave technology when compared to heating blocks or other techniques.
Milestone makes microwave digestion faster, easier, safer, and ever affordable than before. Milestone revolutionary microwave instrumentations offers solutions able to:

Decrease digestion times from hours to minutes
Avoid loss of volatile elements
Avoid acid fumes in laboratory’s environment
Avoid sample contamination
Low blanks since minimal quantities of acids are used
Avoid sample contamination
Run 100% unattended operations thanks to the terminal-controlled digestion program

Closed vessel digestion

ETHOS One

The right choice in Microwave Sample Preparation

The ETHOS One is built to offer the highest performance and best safety features in the industry; it offers fast vessel heating together with homogeneous microwave distribution throughout the cavity.
The ETHOS One can process any kind of samples, with full digestion quality control thanks to reaction sensors and a friendly and intuitive user interface that runs the new EasyCONTROL software.

START D

Microwave Digestion System

The START D, the new Milestone microwave system, combines sophisticated design and high technology with ease of use and safe operation. With the Milestone START D, microwave digestion becomes more affordable than ever before.
With its wide selection of rotors, the START D can process any kind of samples, from the relatively easy environmental, such as wastewater or sludge, to the most challenging, such as ceramics or refractories materials.

UltraCLAVE

The Next Generation Microwave Digestion System

The UltraCLAVE offers a completely different approach to microwave sample preparation.
Thanks to its unique design, the UltraCLAVE enables the simultaneous processing of up to 77 samples or the complete digestion of extremely large sample size. Automatic operations require minimal labor and reduce running costs.

UltraWAVE

Benchtop Single Reaction Chamber (SRC) Digestion System

With higher performance, higher sample throughput, improved workflow, plus lower labor and consumables costs when compared with conventional closed vessel systems, the UltraWAVE is transforming microwave digestion. UltraWAVE can replace open vessel digestion, high pressure ashing and even block digestion in many applications.

Open vessel digestion

ETHOS One

The right choice in Microwave Sample Preparation

Clean Chemistry

During trace and ultra-trace elemental analysis a number of external factors (such as reagent purity, cross contamination, etc.) that can critically impact the quality of the results.
The inability to control the analytical blank (its chemical composition, its measurement, its effective control) is often the primary source of error and the limiting factor for trace analysis.

Milestone has developed an innovative and complete line of systems and accessories for control and reduction of the analytical blank in ICP-MS, ICP-AES and GFAA.
These instruments are dedicated to acid purification, ultratrace cleaning of vessels and reduction of contamination from vessel surface.

DuoPUR and SubPUR

The DuoPUR is sub-boiling distillation system which enables laboratories to produce ultra-pure acids from reagent-grade stock to keep the overall blank at the lowest level.
The DuoPUR is the most economic, efficient and safe purification system: up to 90% of the costs are saved and high productivity is granted (up to 3 liters in 8 hours).

TraceCLEAN

Automatic acid reflux system

Milestone’s new TraceCLEAN is an automated, closed, acid reflux system that thoroughly and safely cleans digestion vessels, inserts and AA, ICP, ICP-MS accessories.
The main benefit of this system is that any trace metal contaminants that are present in the cleaning acid stay within the reservoir and do not come in contact with the cleaned trace accessories.

Microwave Extraction

The use of laboratory microwave ovens for organic extraction elevates sample preparation to the same level of sophistication as sample analysis.
It is now possible to speed up extraction, reduce costs, boost effectiveness, consistency and simplicity of reactions.

ETHOS One

Advanced Microwave Extraction Labstation

The ETHOS One is built to offer the highest performance and best safety features in the industry; it offers fast vessel heating together with homogeneous microwave distribution throughout the cavity.
The ETHOS One can process any kind of samples, with full extraction quality control thanks to reaction sensors and a friendly and intuitive user interface that runs the new EasyCONTROL software.

START E

Microwave Extraction System

Milestone's START E extraction labstation is a high-performance microwave-accelerated system with advanced process control and safety features.
The START E system was created to give analysts a technologically advanced extraction platform.
Speed, economy, effectiveness and simplicity are part of this unique instrument.

NEOS

Rapid, Solvent-Free Microwave Extraction (SFME) of Essential Oils

The NEOS system allows rapid extraction of essential oils from aromatic herbs, spices and dry seeds. These novel processes can produce essential oil in concentrate form, free from any residual solvents, contaminants, or artefacts.
The NEOS system confirms that microwave isolation offers net advantages in terms of yield and selectivity, with better isolation time,
essential oil composition, and is environmental friendly.

NEOS GR

Microwave Hydrodiffusion and Gravity (MHG) System

The NEOS-GR is based on a new and green technique for the extraction of essential oils. This green extraction is an original “upside down” microwave alembic combining microwave heating and earth gravity at atmospheric pressure without solvents. This green method allows to extract essential oils without distillation (80% of the total analytical procedure) and evaporation which are the most energy consuming between the unit operations. It requires no more than 30 minutes, instead of 3 hours!

Microwave Synthesis

Microwave enhanced chemistry represents a fundamental step forward in the capabilities of synthetic chemists. Since its introduction, it has allowed to run reactions faster than ever before, with higher yields and reliably from milligrams to much larger quantities, without the need of reaction re-optimization.
Milestone provides appropriate solutions also for many undergraduate laboratories, providing students with an in-depth view on the new advancements of the modern synthesis.

Solutions for academia

StartSYNTH

StartSYNTH

Microwave Synthesis Labstation

The Milestone’s StartSYNTH platform offers a unique application flexibility: thanks to its highly homogeneous field, chemists are able to reliably perform all kind of syntheses.
The StartSYNTH finds its specific working environment in academic laboratories for undergraduate teaching, as well as for research.

RotoSYNTH

Rotative Solid-Phase Microwave Reactor

The Milestone innovative RotoSYNTH combines all the "traditional" advantages of microwave-enhanced synthesis, with the unique capability of physically rotating the reaction vessel, to achieve very homogenous bulk heating of heterogeneous reaction mixtures.
The RotoSYNTH system represents an excellent platform for method optimization and for scale-up.