North American Sweeper Magazine

TYMCO Equipment Gets Into Every Nook and Cranny Tom Rokas of TYMCO said, “A Regenerative Air Sweeping System is the best means of sweeping on a runway. It gives a very clean sweep.” Any situation where expansion joints are present on a surface, a sweeper must have the ability to get into all the cracks [...]

Denver International Airport (DIA) has six runways, five of which are 12,000 feet in length. But the sixth, stretching 16,000 feet in length, gives DIA the bragging rights to having the longest runway in the country. “It’s hard to put into words the size of it,” Ron Morin, DIA’s Director of Field Maintenance, said. DIA [...]

This year’s National Pavement Expo (NPE), held February 2-5 in Nashville, Tennessee, was a bevy of activity. The highlight, perhaps, was Schwarze’s massive unveiling of their updated S-Series Model Sweeper Trucks. Models raffled off prizes as they sashayed around three revamped Schwarze trucks, redesigned with the customer in mind. But that wasn’t all there was [...]

Johnston Sweepers has engineered the ideal solution to the problem of dealing with Britain’s sporadic and troublesome snowfall. They have launched the new, super-quick demountable winter packs for its C400 midsize and CN101 sub-compact sweepers. The winter equipment, which includes a snow plough for the C400 and a grit spreader and snow blade for the [...]

Mike Lucht, President of Eagle Eye Tracking, Inc., developed a GPS event tracking system for his own use at Progressive Sweeping in Toledo, Ohio. He wanted something that would help his company work more efficiently on a job by being able to track exactly how long a particular job was worked automatically. Being able to [...]

Why Get Certified? The North American Power Sweeping Association (NAPSA) has set the bar for professionalism within the power sweeping industry. Those who have stepped up to the challenge of certification are designated as Certified Sweeping Companies (CSC). The certification formally recognizes those firms who operate in a professional manner and contribute to the overall [...]