Milestone, a Company with a Caring Goal
 

Milestone mission is to reduce patients' anxiety and stress by providing pathologists and histologists with innovative technologies to enable same-day diagnosis results.

Our DNA

Milestone was founded in 1988 as a company specializing in advanced microwave instrumentation for analytical and organic chemistry labs. We are an industry leader in that field, with a worldwide installed base of over 13,000 systems, including 70% of  Fortune 500 companies, as well as large and small research institutions, universities and laboratories.
In 1994, Milestone established a separate Medical division, to transfer our expertise in laboratory grade microwaves to the world of histopathology. We were the first company to design and build a microwave tissue processor specifically for use in the histology lab, and subsequently created the first fully automated, high-throughput microwave processor. Today, our microwave histoprocessors are used every day in hundreds of medical laboratories around the world, making them the most widely used microwave processors in the field.

Technology Leadership

Milestone’s pioneering work in vacuum histoprocessing resulted in 1998 in a European Patent EP 822 403 and US Patent 6042.874. Milestone’s process is described in the article “Ultra-Rapid Microwave/Variable Pressure-Induced Histoprocessing: Description of a New Tissue Processor” Journal of Histotechnology, Vol. 21, No. 3, Sept. 1998 by F. Visinoni et al.

U.R.M. First microwave rapid histoprocessor. European Patent EP 0822403 US Patent 6,042,874	Pathos Automatic microwave histoprocessor. European Patent 1605243 US Patent 7,075,045		FineFIX Fixative For molecular biology studies.

Worldwide organization

Milestone headquarters are based in Sorisole (Bergamo), Northern Italy, with facilities covering over 4,000 sq meters (40,000 sq ft).
Milestone Medical  North American headquarters are located in Kalamazoo, Michigan, with direct sales, service and application support/labs to give expert support to Milestone US users.

Application laboratories