Although new extraction technologies have been developed in recent years, they have fallen short on addressing the needs of environmental labs. The ETHOS X with fastEX-24 overcomes productivity limitations of other conventional approaches by enabling the extraction of a large number of samples in a single workday. Other technologies process one sample at a time sequentially, requiring long extraction cycles. The ETHOS X simultaneously processes 24 samples in only 40 minutes and eliminates cleaning steps by using disposable glass vials. The graphic below compares the typical daily productivity using the Milestone ETHOS X, Sequential Pressurized Liquid Extraction and Soxhlet.