About our company
Avalon grew out of a simple belief: better tools create better mines—not just richer ones. Founded in Geneva and anchored in Swiss engineering discipline, we design, prototype and refine drilling solutions that push productivity while shrinking environmental impact.
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The story of how our company was founded
A group of metallurgists, data scientists and field engineers joined forces in 2015, frustrated by the trade-off they saw between tool life, cost efficiency and sustainability.
The values that drive everything we do
To empower mining teams with tools and insights that make each metre drilled faster, safer and cleaner than the last.
Quality
We refuse to release a product that we would not trust on our own rigs. Each component endures multi-axis fatigue testing, salt-spray corrosion cycles and 100 % dimensional inspection.
Innovation
Performance gains no longer live in single “eureka” moments. They emerge from relentless iteration—smarter alloys, sensor-embedded sleeves, AI-driven parameter tuning.
Security
Operational security starts with physical tool integrity and extends to the data layer. In the field, vibration-damping sleeves and fail-safe shank locks reduce incident risk for crews.
Teamwork
Great engineering is a team sport played across pit floors and design tables. We pair our specialists with your operators, mechanics and planners, listening first and prototyping second. Success is measured in collective metres drilled—not in isolated lab metrics.
Leadership
We lead by example, setting ambitious performance targets and publishing the results—good, bad or surprising. Leadership at Avalon means accountability: when we promise a 15 % tool-life gain, we stay on site until the data confirms it.
Sustainability
Every extra rebuild cycle, every kilogram of steel saved and every hour of compressor fuel spared reduces mining’s footprint. We calculate the Scope-3 impact of our tooling and design for circularity: extended wear life, regional refurb hubs and streamlined logistics that cut emissions as well as costs.
Visit our location
Wherever you drill—Europe, Asia or Africa—there’s an Avalon team ready to keep your rigs turning.
Europe
Corporate office, prototype machine shop, metallurgy lab, executive briefing centre.
ASIA
24 h parts dispatch for Asia-Pacific, regional data-support desk, training classroom for OEM operators.
AFRICA
72-hour hammer rebuild facility, field-engineering base, inventory of critical spares for sub-Saharan mining corridors.
SOUTH AMERICA
48-hour parts dispatch for Chile, Peru, Brazil and Argentina - hammer rebuild cell with ultrasonic flaw detection.