After many years working as an engineer in the nuclear industry, our next guest and his partner, decided to take the entrepreneurial leap in 1999 and start a company that designs and builds specialized products and services for the wastewater treatment industry. Since then, the company has worked with more than 150 nuclear facilities in 14 countries including helping in the recovery and clean-up of the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan in 2011. In South Carolina, the company annually recycles more than 50 million gallons of wastewater and 800 million gallons of nuclear wastewater.
Mike Switzer interviews Jim Braun, President and CEO of AvanTech, Inc. in Columbia, SC.