About Milestone

Milestone vision is to help chemists by providing the most technologically advanced microwave instrumentation for research and quality control.

Milestone has been active since 1988 in the field of advanced microwave sample preparation.
With over thirty patents and more than 10.000 instruments installed worldwide covering large and small research institutions, as well as universities and industrial laboratories, we are the acknowledged industry leader in microwave technology.
Our commitment is to consistently provide the scientific and industrial communities with the most effective, safest, and highest quality instrumentation for chemical applications.
By listening to our customers, we have established a history of developing unique solutions to realworld problems in analytical laboratories around the world.

Our products offer a wide range of applications, for example acid mineralization, acid purification, solvent extraction, ashing, mercury determination, and microwave assisted synthesis.
The key to Milestone’s technological leadership lies in bringing together individuals from diverse scientific and engineering disciplines to solve real world problems with innovative microwave instrumentation.
These facilities are also a perfect place for the training of our customers; here they can participate to seminars and presentations and make practical tests on the different microwave units with the assistance of our technicians.
The excellent support of the Application Team through all these years has highly contributed to the success of our instruments and our company.
All our instruments are produced, assembled and checked by Milestone Production Department according to ISO procedures, to ensure they fully satisfy the needs of our customers.

Milestone organization all over the world

Milestone is operative all over the world through a network of very reliable partners; USA headquarters are located in Shelton, Connecticut. The presence of Milestone in Japan is assured by Milestone General KK, near Tokyo, and in Korea by Milestone Korea, located in Seoul.
All these branches have sales and technical assistance departments, as well as applications laboratories supporting our customers.
Besides this, Milestone is present through over 50 exclusive distributors, who guarantee everywhere high standards of quality and assistance.

Milestone is not a conventional company.

Milestone does not intend to become one.