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Setting the Stage for Accurate Data through Quality Sample Preparation

16 September 2019
Application Team

The old adage “garbage in – garbage out” holds true for any lab performing trace metals analysis, regardless of industry. Quality analysis and the ability to provide accurate results, regardless of whether employing ICP-OES or ICP-MS, always starts with quality sample preparation. To achieve superior data, you need to select the right microwave digestion system for your lab. In this eBook, you will learn more about the latest microwave solutions offered by Milestone and discover how labs across multiple industries use this technology to meet their unique sample prep throughput and turnaround requirements.

Tags: Guide, digestion, sample preparation

Expert support from people who know your instruments best

02 September 2019
Service Team

Your Milestone purchase represents an important investment in your lab’s productivity. Only highly trained Milestone technicians will service your laboratory instruments to maintain high performance levels and significantly extend the useful life of you instruments, installed options and major accessories.
Make sure your unit is in optimal condition all year long!

Tags: investorsinpeople, training, customersupport

Discover how Total could achieve optimum recovery of volatile elements with the Milestone ultraWAVE

12 June 2019
Sales Team

Total is a major energy operator, that produces and markets fuels, natural gas and low-carbon electricity. They are the fourth largest international oil and gas producer in the world, the largest retailer in Africa and the largest refiner and petrochemical producer in Western Europe. Total has an extensive portfolio of oil and gas production facilities, service stations and refineries and chemical sites supported by approximately 98,000 employees in 130 countries.
What's their challenge?

Tags: case study, src digestion, petrochemical

Selecting a Microwave Digestion System for the Unique Demands of the Pharmaceutical Industry

03 June 2019
Application Team

Recent regulations on heavy metal testing have required the pharmaceutical industry to monitor a suite of elemental impurities in pharmaceutical raw materials, drug products and dietary supplements.

Tags: digestion, src digestion, application, pharmaceutical

Overcome memory effect in dioxin extraction on environmental matrices

15 May 2019
Application Team

The environmental department of SYNLAB Linköping is focused on the determination of organic pollutants in different matrices, such as Dioxins and Furans, PAH’s and PCB’s.

Tags: extraction, case study

5 Considerations for Microwave Digestion

02 May 2019
Application Team

Read the top 5 things you want to take into account when selecting the optimal microwave digestion system for your lab.

Tags: Tips, digestion

Determination of trace levels of Hg

15 April 2019
Application Team

It is well known that mercury and its multiple forms are critical contaminants to the environment with severe consequences for food chain and humans. The determination of trace levels of Hg is a must and frequently measurements are performed by converting Hg to a vapor and measuring its concentration either by atomic absorption or by atomic fluorescence.

Tags: mercury, scientific paper

The Impact of Illegal Artisanal Gold Mining on the Peruvian Amazon

01 April 2019
Application Team

Benefits of Taking a Direct Mercury Analyzer into the Rain Forest to Monitor Mercury Contamination

Recently published on Spectroscopy, this column describes the work of Professor Luis Fernandez and his team in the Department of Biology at Wake Forest University in Winston Salem, North Carolina, who are leading a project to study the effects of illegal artisanal gold mining using mercury amalgamation extraction on the human and environmental ecosystem of Peru’s Madre de Dios region of the Amazon.

Tags: mercury, article

Safety and reliability

25 March 2019
Customer Support Team

Among the goals for the design of products, the target of ensuring the maximum safety for our users is universally accepted as more compelling issue than other goals of design.
Milestone's Technical Team works hard to achieve this target. That's why we routinely expose Microwave Digestion units to varying combinations of HNO₃, H₂O₂, HCl and HF during the processing of thousands of samples each month.

Milestone's Application Team

14 February 2019
Application Team

Milestone's Application Team works in close contact with lab managers, lab technicians and analytical chemists all around the world.
They are highly specialized in a broad variety of techniques, spending many hours testing and running different samples in our high tech analytical lab.

Tags: application, support

From the President's Voice

31 January 2019
Marketing Team

Franco Visinoni, president of Milestone, founded Milestone in 1988 as the first specialized laboratory instrument manufacturer focusing on advanced microwave technology for sample preparation. Mr. Visinoni says: "Milestone today is a solid company and my co-workers are responsible for their own work. I trust in them and they trust in me. I’ve always tried to create a relaxed climate within Milestone and everyone who visits us can perceive it"

Tags: corporate, investorsinpeople

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