North American Sweeper Magazine

Determined—that’s what Marigale (“Gale”) Maly is. She is determined to be the best at what she does as CEO of Tucson’s Maly & Associates, her full-service property management, facilities maintenance, and construction company for commercial and residential properties. And she is just as determined to meet her own and her customers’ [...]

NAPSA needs you! The North American Power Sweeping Association is the premier trade organization for the power sweeping industry. Our membership is comprised of small one truck operators to some of the largest companies in the profession. The combined knowledge and dedication of our members allows NAPSA to provide a wealth [...]

Schwarze Industries, one of the world’s largest street sweeper manufacturers, announced today a Load Leveler option available for all M6000 Mechanical Street Sweepers.
The Schwarze patent pending Load Leveler increases usable capacity by evenly distributing debris inside the hopper. An on-demand switch activates the load leveler, which works with both wet [...]

If you want clean streams, you need clean streets. That’s the message Brian Giles, sweeper product manager for Elgin Sweeper, shared with the municipal officials and consulting engineers who comprise the DuPage River Salt Creek Workgroup of The Conservation Foundation. The Chicago-area organization focuses on helping local governments understand and apply [...]

The Wall Street Journal published a study indicating that the average U.S. executive loses six weeks per year, or one hour per day, retrieving information from messy desks and files. This statistic can apply to any disorganized person. In today’s highly competitive environment, those who learn how to organize their time, [...]

What is “vision” but the ability to see through the distractions to the treasure hidden beneath it all? To achieve success, then, is a matter of discarding the distractions and going forward with the vision and the treasure intact.  Over three years ago, newly hired Operations Manager Alicia Powell had a [...]

Within the next few weeks, and maybe even by the time you read this article, NAPSA will launch a mentoring program. This program will be offered ONLY to NAPSA members. The purpose of the program is to bring members together to exchange information and to provide value to your NAPSA membership.
NAPSA members [...]

Schwarze Industries, one of the world’s largest street sweeper and asphalt patcher manufacturers, today introduced the upgraded SP-550 Spraypatcher.
Already packed with exclusive features like a power assisted boom and fully shrouded unit, the re-designed Schwarze SP-550 now includes a host of upgrades designed to increase productivity and reduce operation costs for the end user.
“We are [...]

Gradall Industries, along with EJ Equipment of Manteno, IL, has announced that Chicagoland Speedway will feature two Vacall Street Sweepers during the track’s three major racing events this summer.
The Vacall VS10 Street Sweepers will be used for clean up duties during the following events: National Hot Rod Association Full-Throttle Pro [...]

Schwarze Industries, one of the world’s largest street sweeper manufacturers, today introduced the new GS6 Regenerative Air Street Sweeper to the North and South American markets.
The Schwarze model GS6 is a heavy duty, chassis-mounted, regenerative air sweeper. Engineered with a completely new approach to sweeper frame design, the GS6 can [...]