Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Rasmussen College, Bloomington

7:30 to 9 am

willie-hendrickson
Speaker: Willie Hendrickson
Founder, The Aveka Group

Willie Hendrickson, founder of the Aveka Group, began operations as a spin-out from 3M in 1993. Since then, he has grown his business from several hundred thousand dollars of annual revenues to about $20 million in 2012. Willie is an engaging speaker with a knack for charming his audience with colorful narratives.

The Aveka Group is a contract toll processor of particulate-based materials and products. It is a company with a diverse processing base, serving companies from small start-ups to Fortune 500 corporations in the areas of food, personal care products, industrial chemical materials, and everything in between. Aveka works with customers to develop a product or process from its initial conception, to producing pilot quantities, to manufacturing qualified full production amounts. Aveka Group has the equipment and knowledge to meet customer needs in grinding, spray drying, particle coating, microencapsulation, screening, blending, and characterization.