Milestone was founded in 1988 as a company specialized in advanced microwave instrumentation for analytical and organic chemistry labs. They are the industry leader in this field, with a worldwide installed base of over 20,000 systems in large and small research institutions, universities and industrial laboratories.
In 1994, Milestone established a separate Medical division, so as to transfer its expertise to the world of histopathology. In 1998, Milestone was the first company to design and build a microwave tissue processor specifically for histology labs, and subsequently created the first fully automated, high-throughput microwave processor. Today, its microwave histoprocessors are used in hundreds of laboratories around the world, making them the most widely used microwave processors in the field.
Milestone also offers systems for the vacuum transfer of biospecimens, workstations and macro digital imaging systems for both grossing and autopsy rooms, and instruments that improve the cryoembedding and staining processes leading to high quality frozen sections in less than 10 minutes.
