Cleaning various items used in ultra-trace analysis work is a critically important laboratory routine. To minimize contamination, traditional cleaning methods require soaking items in hot acids, often for several hours. To be effective large volumes of acid are consumed and need to be changes regularly. There is also a substantial risk of exposure to hot acids and acid vapors using traditional soaking techniques.
To address these issues, Milestone has developed the traceCLEAN, a fully automated, self-contained, acid steam cleaning system for trace metal analysis accessories. The cleaning process with the traceCLEAN takes about an hour, enhancing the overall lab workflow. Digestion vessels, ICP accessories, volumetric flasks, and other glassware can be cleaned, even multiple times during a day.

• Versatile
  For all laboratory apparatus, either TFM, glass and quartz parts
• Fully automated and safe
  No operator exposure to acid vapors.
• Highly productive
  Fast, convenient, clean, and fully automated.
• Cost-effective and productive
  No changing of acids or soaking required.

The chemical reagents used during the analysis are an important source of the analytical blank. Sub-boiling distillation systems has been demonstrated to be the the leading method of acid purification.
In contrast to acid purification through conventional distillation, where strong boiling action generating aerosolized particles results in contamination of the original liquid with the distillate, acid distillation system using sub-boiling technology prevents the formation of spray or droplets and yields to a very high pure acid.
subCLEAN is a compact and easy-to-use sub-boiling system, where all parts in contact with acids are made of high-purity fluoropolymers. Offering an optimal purification method for preparation of high purity reagents, our subCLEAN system is therefore suitable for HF, as well as for HNO₃ and hydrochloric acid purification.

• Up to 90% cost saving of ultrapure acids
• High productivity
• ‘On-demand’ acid purification
• Re-purification of contaminated acids

The latest generation of dedicated microwave reactors enables a fast screening of reaction conditions by means of parallel tests, selecting the best catalyst, solvent and conditions bringing microwave assisted synthesis to new levels. Since its introduction, it has allowed chemists to run experiments faster than ever before and with higher yields. Today microwave synthesis instrumentation has become an optimal choice across the pharmaceutical, biotech, polymers and agro-chemical industries, with thousands of units installed worldwide. Microwave organic synthesis plays a key role for both organic or microwave inorganic synthesis performed simply with our dedicated platform. Its intuitive software always guarantees precise control of your reaction parameters to perform microwave chemical synthesis according to your demands saving time and efforts.

Flexibility
In combination with specific accessories, allows the chemists to perform classic glassware and high pressure synthesis, as well as solid-phase reactions.

Improved yields
Reactions completed in minutes instead of hours.

Lower by-products formation
and sample contamination.

Fast and homogeneous
heating of samples thanks to a rotating diffuser.

Sample preparation is the least evolved and most error-prone step in chromatographic analytical procedures. Many laboratories still use the Soxhlet method that was developed in 1879.
Microwave-assisted extraction uses closed vessels to heat the extraction solvent above its atmospheric boiling point. Working at elevated temperature increases the solubility of the analyte of interest and decreases the solvent viscosity, leading to more efficient sample preparation and lower extraction times. Microwave extraction is selective, fast and produces more accurate and precise results than other methods.
Typical applications of microwave-assisted solvent extraction include organic pollutants from environmental matrices, fat determination in food samples, contaminants from food and extraction of additives from plastics.

• Reliable GC or GC-MS analysis
• High sample throughput
• Low running costs
• Efficiency and consistency
• Ease of use

Milestone’s PYRO Microwave Muffle Furnace Ashing System offers an excellent alternative to conventional muffle furnace techniques. Our solution helped laboratories to optimize processes like residue on ignition and loss on ignition (LOI) in a variety of industries to improve their efficiency.

• Fast heating – 8 minutes only from room temperature to 1.000°C!
• High sample throughput – up to 24 samples simultaneously!
• Three interchangeable configurations for several applications

The Milestone DMA-80 has been at the forefront of direct total mercury analysis for almost two decades. The challenges in mercury determination are well known to analysts who often face a number of issues connected with tedious sample preparation process or the mercury analysis steps causing memory effect even after long cleaning cycles performed using latest generation of ICP-MS or cold vapor systems.

The DMA-80 mercury determination system can analyze any matrix (solid, liquid or gas) without any pre-treatment or chemical additions in as few as 6 minutes in full compliance with EPA method 7473. With thousands of units installed, Milestone defines the benchmark for direct mercury determination a wide range of industries: environmental, food energy, cement, cosmetics, agriculture, mining and petrochemical.

• Improved design from the outside out for superior performance event at the ppt level.
• Easy-to-use technology with a single long-lasting calibration for all matrices.
• No memory effect thanks to the revolutionary autoblank feature.
• Milestone Connect for 30-years of experience at your fingertips
• Fully compliant with US EPA Method 7473, ASTM method D-6722-01 and D-7623-10.
• Maximize your ROI with an easy-to-maintain system and reliable components.

Sample preparation is a central part of elemental analysis and includes several manual and time-consuming steps. Reagent addition into digestion vials or vessels is a tedious and often unpleasant process that, in high throughput labs, requires a significant amount of time.

The easyFILL Automated Dosing Station addresses these latter challenges using a single platform that ensures the automation of reagent addition and dilution, finally ensuring superior workflow for the lab and higher safety for the operator.

• Less handling time
• Enhanced safety
• Consistency of results
• High flexibility

Sub-boiling distillation has been demonstrated to be the best method and the most effective approach in acid purification. Offering an optimal purification method for preparation of high purity reagents, this type of acid distillation uses contactless infrared lamps to vaporize the surface liquid at a temperature typically 20°C below the boiling point. The duoPUR allows the purification of the most common acids such as HNO3 and HCl.

In contrast to conventional distillation systems, where strong boiling action generating aerosolized particles results in contamination of the original liquid with the distillate, the duoPUR acid purification system using sub-boiling technology provides gentle surface evaporation preventing the formation of spray or droplets and yields to ultrapure acids. The duoPUR offers an alternative to the purchase of expensive high purity acids for trace elemental analyses.

• Up to 90% cost saving of ultrapure acids
• High productivity
• ‘On-demand’ acid distillation
• Single or double distillation upon on requirements