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the business: mechanics and mill-
wrights, technicians and engineers.
There is constant activity here, and
constant innovation,” DiCristofaro
comments. The best people execute
AVL’s daily operations under all three
companies: AVL Manufacturing, ONE-
POWER and ECO-H Technologies Inc.
AVL MANUFACTURING
In 2006, AVL Manufacturing
spread its wings in oil and gas. The
market had a need for a “one stop
shop” for full assembly and AVL Man-
ufacturing still “provides its customers
with experienced project management,
design, supply chain management/
resources and procurement for assem-
bly and manufacturing solutions.” The
company’s high bay can facilitate up to
80
ton assemblies with 30’ under hook
clearance. AVL boasts a 95,000 sq. ft.
total clean work space.
The company is one of Canada’s
largest privately owned assembly fa-
cilities, and AVL Manufacturing has
been the spring board for all corporate
development since.
We used to manufacture one
part or one module. But many of
the products we created parts for,
in the early days of AVL, were cre-
ated by companies who had been
putting those machines together for
many years, but without traditional
blueprints and drawings besides the
memories of their founders. What we
brought to the table is the ability to
manufacture a part or machine AND
produce the drawings for those com-
panies, so that if something happened
to the “memory” of the company, the
customer would have the knowledge
to assemble the parts the same way,”
DiCristofaro continues. “AVL Manu-
facturing steps in to engineer and pro-
vide redline drawings to customers
when they build a part, and this is how
we got into the market’s we’re in.”
The reason AVL moved into the
development of state-of-the-art equip-
ment? It was simple: demand from
customers. Many companies in Can-
ada’s more “traditional” industries,
especially oil and gas, have a practice
of doing things the same way they’ve
always been done. Oil and gas is now
the company’s bread and butter.
Oil and gas is really the biggest
industry in Canada that’s been left
dormant for so long—there is just so
much innovation you can bring to it.
It’s still raw and in its infancy. You can
make a small change to a product and
boom: you’re changing the landscape,”
DiCristofaro explains.