The company gained recognition for its "Baker Analyzed" labels, which provided detailed analyses of trace impurities in its products.
[8] The company extended its international market with the 2011 acquisitions of the Indian laboratory reagents supplier RFCL and the Polish lab supply firm POCH.
[8] As of December 2023, the top shareholders of Avantor included Vanguard Group Inc., Dodge & Cox Inc., T. Rowe Price Investment Management Inc., and BlackRock Inc.[11] That same year the company expanded further into Asia with the opening of an innovation center in Shanghai, which focuses on monoclonal antibodies and cell and gene therapy.
[12] In 2020, Avantor doubled the size of its Bridgewater, New Jersey innovation center, expanding its research and development capabilities and cell and gene therapy reagent manufacturing.
Avantor added employees and extra shifts in order to increase capacity for producing synthetic lipids that are formed into nanoparticles, which carry mRNA into human cells.
Bloomberg also found evidence that Avantor's compound was used in cartel drug labs, and that regulations implemented in 2018 didn't stop it from being widely available.
In 2021, Texas Senator John Cornyn, who serves on both the Judiciary Committee and the bipartisan Caucus on International Narcotics Control claims that Avantor should have known better, selling acetic anhydride within Mexico's unregulated market.