One Platform, Multiple Applications: Rethinking Microwave Sample Preparation
Webinar Date/Time: Thu, Dec 3, 2026 11:00 AM EST
Many labs still rely on outdated sample preparation technologies such as hot plates and Soxhlet. See how one compact, accessible microwave system adapts to digestion, extraction, alkaline fusion, synthesis, or all of them.
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Event Overview:
Sample preparation directly affects the quality, speed, and cost of every spectroscopic and chromatographic analysis, yet many laboratories still split it across several conventional techniques, each with its own equipment, footprint, and learning curve. Closed-vessel microwave technology has become a proven standard for faster, safer, and more reproducible digestion and extraction, and it can now be applied far beyond a single application. This webinar demonstrates, directly from the lab, how one compact and accessible microwave platform handles demanding acid digestion of matrices from low to highly reactive and, with dedicated accessories, extends to extraction of organic pollutants such as PAHs, PCBs, and dioxins from soils and sediments; fat extraction from food; high-temperature alkaline fusion and fire assay up to 1200 °C; and microwave-assisted synthesis. Whether running an environmental, food or nutraceutical lab, a QA/QC lab, an academic department, or a start-up laboratory, attendees will learn how to start with the application they need today, add others as requirements evolve or as other groups share the system, and scale to higher-throughput platforms as sample volumes grow.
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how microwave sample prep improves speed, safety and data quality.
- See how one platform handles multiple applications, today, or as needs evolve.
- Learn how one compact system can replace multiple conventional techniques.
Who Should Attend:
- Top targeted audience job positions: Laboratory managers and directors, analytical chemists, senior scientists, sample preparation specialists, laboratory technicians, QA/QC managers and analysts, principal investigators, academic research faculty, and founders and technical directors of start-up and contract laboratories
- Next most relevant audience job positions Environmental and food testing analysts (contract and government labs), ICP-OES/ICP-MS and GC/LC-MS operators, laboratory operations and procurement managers, graduate students, postdocs, and core facility managers
Speaker:
Giulio Colnaghi
Product Marketing Manager
Milestone
Giulio Colnaghi is a chemist who joined Milestone in 2003 as an application specialist, developing new sample preparation methods. He then served as an area manager for Latin America, Eastern Europe, and the U.S., and since 2018 has been marketing manager at Milestone headquarters. He has helped hundreds of laboratories worldwide overcome daily challenges in elemental analysis by optimizing their sample preparation workflows and methods.
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