03 March 2023
ACEA lab profile
The ACEA Group deals with waste management, handling
over 1 million tons of waste every year. Its activities are mainly
concentrated in Italy but they
are also present in some Latin
American countries including
Colombia, Honduras, Peru and the
Dominican Republic. The main reason why they decided
to switch to microwave assisted
extraction technique was the need
to reduce time per analysis and
to process some of the most
difficult and polluted matrices
avoiding high maintenance costs
and tedious cleaning steps. With the ETHOS X implementation,
ACEA could process a full suite
of matrices,even those with high
plastic content that could not be
processed with PLE. This allowed
ACEA to expand its department’s
application range and increase its
productivity.