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Milestone Labstations are designed to provide many years of high performance and superior results, processing sample for a variety of applications. The systems and the accessories are developed based on application’s needs and the environment in which they will be used.
Whatever your needs are, we have the experience to help you choose the right Milestone high quality product.

Microwave Digestion

Reliable and professional sample preparation is as important as the analysis itself.
In conventional digestion procedures, the highest temperature of the acid is the boiling point of the acid itself. The time required to digest a sample is mostly a function of the temperature of acid used for reaction. In closed vessel digestion procedures the sample and the acid are added in a microwave transparent vessel. The vessel is closed and safely contained. When microwave energy is applied the pressure in the vessel increases, with a corresponding increase of the boiling point of the acid, thus dramatically reducing digestion times.
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 1

Advanced Microwave Digestion Labstation

The ETHOS 1 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 1 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

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.

Open vessel digestion

ETHOS 1

Advanced Microwave Digestion Labstation

START MOD

Microwave Open-vessel Digestion System

Milestone’s innovative START MOD system allows rapid simultaneous microwave digestion of 8 large organic samples in open vessels, with sample size up to several grams.
Large samples, are desirable in a variety of applications, to serve as a more representative portion of a larger sample bulk, or to compensate for limitations in the sensitivity of the analytical instrument.

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.

Mercury Determination

The hazards of mercury contamination make accurate mercury's detection extremely important. In fact, over the past century the amount of mercury released into the biosphere has dramatically increased. Contamination sources include medical and hazardous waste incineration and industrial waste.
Milestone has developed a new instrument that exploits an innovative method which generates accurate and repeatable results in a quickly, simply, and waste-free manner, in substitution of traditional Cold Vapor methods.

DMA-80 and Tri-cell DMA-80

Direct Mercury Analyzer

Milestone’s DMA-80 Direct Mercury Analyzer effortlessly analyzes liquid and solid samples without sample digestion and wet chemistry pre-treatment steps, and without any waste disposal.
The DMA-80 is fast. Just 5 minutes per sample are required. 40 samples can be automatically processed in less than 4 hours, start to finish.
An intuitive controller uploads sample weights, controls the analysis and processes data with built-in report generation and networking capabilities.

DMA-80L

Direct Mercury Analyzer for Liquids

The new Milestone DMA-80L is designed to perform fast, precise and extremely sensitive determination of mercury from 0,01 to 1.000 ng in water-based samples and digestates, from the digestion of solids with high Mercury content.
The entire working process lasts less than 2 minutes!

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 1

Advanced Microwave Extraction Labstation

The ETHOS 1 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 1 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.

Microwave Ashing

Microwave ashing is a breakthrough for quality control and rapid sample preparation.
The determination of ash content is an important test procedure, performed in thousands of laboratory each day, for process and quality control purposes. Ashing tests are also carried out on different kind of samples, as a prerequisite in analytical procedures.
Milestone offers microwave ashing systems to meet the needs of your laboratory in alternative to conventional muffle furnaces that are time consuming and require tedious task to be accomplished operating in unsafe and uncomfortable laboratories.

PYRO

Microwave Ashing System

The PYRO represents a highly efficient alternative to conventional muffle furnaces. The PYRO dramatically reduces ashing times, from hours to minutes. The PYRO systems' unique design eliminates equipment corrosion and acid fume pollution, greatly reducing analyst exposure to acid fumes. This labstation offers you the fastest and most versatile way to ash your samples.

PYRO SA

PYRO SA Sulphate Ashing System

The PYRO SA Sulphate Ashing system is identical to the PYRO, but it is equipped with the Sulphate Ashing Module and the VAC-1000 Acid Scrubber. Preliminary charring step, tedious handling and monitoring of samples, and operator exposures to acid fumes, are eliminated.

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.

From µL to mL

MultiSYNTH

Single- and Multi-mode Microwave Synthesis System

The MultiSYNTH features both single-mode and multi-mode technologies in a single unit.
It offers magnetic stirring capabilities and an exclusive vessel ‘shaking’ system, to ensure homogeneous temperature distribution throughout the reaction mixtures in single or multiple vessels.
High-efficiency cooling capabilities contribute to enhance reaction yield during microwave irradiation.

MicroSYNTH

Microwave Synthesis Labstation

The MicroSYNTH offers unmatched flexibility of operation; it allows operations in both open and closed vessels and chemical reactions can be optimized in small volumes and then taken to larger scale within the same microwave unit.
Chemists can achieve uniform results in a wide range of vessels and can process multiple reactions simultaneously or explore large reaction volumes.

From mL to L

MicroSYNTH

Microwave Synthesis Labstation

RotoSYNTH

Rotative Solid-Phase Microwave Reactor

From L to Production Scale

Building the Future: One versatile system for parallel, batch and continuous flow scale-up reactions

MicroSYNTH^plus

Parallel scale-up reactor

BatchSYNTH

Large batch reactor

FlowSYNTH

Continuos flow reactor