The AVN Blog

At AVN, we’ve always believed in the power of science and innovation to transform how we manufacture, build and create. Today, we’re proud to share another milestone in that journey: AVN is now an official member of BioMADE, the Bioindustrial Manufacturing and Design Ecosystem, and the first corporation headquartered in… Read More

Achieving Profitable Growth at Mid-Sized Chemical Companies   The business and market realities for mid-sized chemical companies are simple to state, but difficult to deliver.  Technical and business leaders at these organizations face pressure to deliver profitable growth in hypercompetitive, low-growth, global environments.   In those cases where market and competitive opportunities… Read More

A customer needed to have a difficult separation demonstrated at pilot scale. AVN designed the distillation system and constructed it on a skid. The system was operated under a range of conditions with authentic feed to develop operating information and performance data. After finishing the initial studies, the skid-mounted unit… Read More

A company wanted to test the performance of a number of custom-designed specialty surfactants. AVN prepared samples of these products by reaction of selected starter molecules with ethylene oxide and propylene oxide. Reaction parameters were varied in statistically designed experiments. The block copolymers produced were provided for application testing to… Read More

An Australian company experienced two explosions in its chemical manufacturing unit and made contact with AVN for assistance. Within 10 days of initial contact, AVN had assembled a project team and sent a contingent to Australia. The root cause of the incidents was identified and a revised process with inherent… Read More