May 27, 2014 (Elk Grove Village, Illinois) – Avant Tecno USA is thrilled to announce its partnership with the Central Cross Country Ski Association  (“CXC Skiing”) headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin.

Avant has been a supporter and sponsor of CXC Skiing over the past two years and, will again, provide its loader equipment to complete the pre-season trail work at Telemark for events this winter season and for the 2016 USSA Nordic Junior National Championships.

Avant’s compact loaders perform a critical role from basic pre-season ski trail maintenance and snow removal to moving natural and man-made snow onto the ski trail to creating top of the line conditions for everyone to safely enjoy cross-country skiing.

“AVANT played a huge role in trail and stadium preparation for the 2013 IPC Nordic Skiing World Cup. AVANT is extremely easy to operate, compact and maneuverable. In a challenging weather conditions in a low-snow December, we used AVANT to move snow on the trail around biathlon range and event was challenged again by weather with 2 inches of rain in mid January two days before the first race.

“AVANT did an outstanding job for moving man-made snow on the washed out sections of the trail and we were able to pull out all events as they were planed,” commented Yuriy Gusev, CXC Executive Director and 2013 IPC World Cup Chief of Competition.