Easy-to-handle 14-position rotor with large-volume PTFE vessels. The ideal solution for environmental and organic samples such as soils, wastewater, and beverages.
Compact Microwave Labstation ETHOS LEAN
With ETHOS™, Milestone introduces the latest and most advanced evolution of closed-vessel microwave digestion technology, delivering outstanding performance and excellent reproducibility.
Highlights
Performance and flexibility to support your growth
The ETHOS LEAN, now in its 2nd series, represents the Milestone expertise in microwave sample preparation: it is a compact, affordable labstation delivering full digestion capabilities without compromise. Beyond digestion, ETHOS LEAN supports solvent extraction for chromatography, solvent-free extraction of natural products, and even microwave synthesis workflows, offering unmatched versatility in its class.
ETHOS LEAN offers a complete range of rotors to adapt to any laboratory workflow. All the Milestone vessels are engineered from high-purity PTFE-TFM and protected by reinforced safety shields to ensure maximum resistance, durability, and structural integrity. This robust design guarantees reliable performances even with challenging samples.
- COMPLETE DIGESTION CAPABILITY - Reliable results across a wide range of samples
- FLEXIBLE ROTOR OPTIONS - To match any matrix requirement.
- SAFETY BY DESIGN - Peace of mind on every run.
- COMPACT & COST-EFFECTIVE - Optimized for space, performance, and budget.
- VERSATILE LABSTATION - Suitable for multiple sample preparation processes.
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Vent-and-reseal technology
Milestone’s patented pressure-release mechanism.
During normal operation, it maintains stable digestion pressure (1) it vents in a controlled way (2) and automatically reseals the vessel (3), ensuring continuity of the run.
Sensor reaction
Milestone's easyTEMP
| Ease of use: | ★★★★★ |
| Direct control: | ★★★★★ |
| Precision and accuracy: | ★★★★★ |
| Control in all vessels: | ★★★★★ |
| Safety: | ★★★★★ |
| Run any number of vessels: | ★★★★★ |
In-Situ approach
| Ease of use: | ★★★☆☆ |
| Direct control: | ★★★★★ |
| Precision and accuracy: | ★★★★★ |
| Control in all vessels: | ★☆☆☆☆ |
| Safety: | ★★★★☆ |
| Run any number of vessels: | ★★★★★ |
Infrared approach
| Ease of use: | ★★★★★ |
| Direct control: | ★★★☆☆ |
| Precision and accuracy: | ★★★☆☆ |
| Control in all vessels: | ★★★★★ |
| Safety: | ★★★★★ |
| Run any number of vessels: | ★☆☆☆☆ |
Option for rotor
Confidence across every sample
Digestion vessels are at the core of every microwave system. Their ability to withstand demanding temperature and pressure conditions defi nes the success of each digestion run. Milestone vessels are engineered from high-purity PTFE-TFM and protected by reinforced safety shields to ensure maximum resistance, durability, and structural integrity. This robust design guarantees reliable performances even with challenging samples. ETHOS LEAN offers a complete range of rotors to adapt to any laboratory workflow
Advanced control
ETHOS LEAN features easyCONTROL 3, Milestone’s latest user interface shared across our most advanced platforms. Most runs require only two steps: select a method and press START. All digestion parameters are managed automatically in real time, ensuring safe and reproducible results across all vessels.
The intuitive touchscreen combines clean design with powerful functionality, supported by a library of methods that reduces setup time and simplifi es method development. For regulated environments, easyCONTROL 3 provides full traceability with secure data management and compliance with CFR 21 Part 11.
Options and upgrades
One platform, multiple applications
Versatility at its best
ETHOS is more than a digestion system: it is a microwave labstation designed to support laboratories across many different sectors.
With the appropriate selection of rotors and accessories, ETHOS can address diverse and demanding sample preparation processes, ranging from the analysis of organic pollutants, PFAS, microplastics, and other environmental contaminants, to the determination of fat, FAMEs, and amino acids in food and feed, as well as MOAH & MOSH analysis.
Its scope extends further to advanced materials and geological studies, where hightemperature fusions and fire assays are required, and even to synthetic chemistry workflows.