Aevitas-Ontario

Aevitas Inc. is an industry leader in providing environmentally responsible and cost effective solutions for unique waste streams. It is our company objective to provide safe and permanent treatment and disposal options for a wide range of material.We offer: the only commercial mercury waste treatment system in Canada; transformer oil draining, removal, treatment and recycling; treatment of PCB contaminated electrical equipment and oil; drummed waste packaging and removal; Industrial waste water treatment; an in-house analytical laboratory testing service with trace organic capabilities. Aevitas Inc. is a leading specialist in providing industry and utilities with new quality, recycled transformer oil and mobile transformer oil processing services. We provide customers with the essential maintenance support needed to keep transformers functioning safely and productively. With our fleet of specialized vehicles and skilled field personnel, we are ready around the clock to meet our customers’ needs. Services include: degasification; retrofilling; vacuum filling; transformer dry out; and transformer oil sampling.

Aevitas is a true Canadian entrepreneurial success story.  Beginning in 1993 the co-founders identified a need in the market to deal with the growing storage of PCB lighting ballasts.  There was no disposal outlet for PCB material at this time so Aevitas developed an on-site service to dismantle the ballast isolating the PCB component.  The metals and other materials were recovered and recycled.  The PCB material was safely repackaged and left behind.  Immediate benefits recognized by the customer included minimizing storage and waste reporting requirements.  The long term benefit to the environment was recycling materials previously considered as unrecyclable.  This is how it all began.

As pioneers in the recycling industry the business owners were concerned by the amount of mercury bearing lamps simply going to landfill.  In 1995 Aevitas developed a lamp processing system to separate and recycle the individual components.  In 1997 Aevitas established the first approved commercial retort oven in Canada.  This process safely captures all mercury from the individual components.  The remaining mercury free materials can now be fully recycled.  Nothing goes to landfill. 

The next growth opportunity in the company's evolution was to recycle PCB transformers. Determined to recycle the used transformer oil Aevitas purchased a PCB dechlorination process from Ontario Hydro Research.  This technology renders the oil completely free of PCB contamination and available for reuse in electrical equipment.  From this point Aevitas implemented a growth plan expanding capabilities while holding true to the original goal of developing recycling technologies.  

Twenty years later Aevitas has established itself as an industry leader providing a full spectrum of safe and efficient environmental services.  To meet market demand Aevitas now owns and operates eight (8) facilities across Canada with one (1) strategically located in Detroit MI.