North American Sweeper Magazine

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 [...]

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 [...]

Schwarze Industries, one of the world’s largest street sweeper manufacturers, today introduced the updated A4000 Street Sweeper.
The 2010 chassis-mounted, regenerative Schwarze model A4000 street sweeper boasts a new hopper design to increase capacity, as well as a new bolt-on hopper shroud and bolt-in suction tube. Also added is a water nozzle [...]

Elgin Sweeper has introduced a new Road Wizard mechanical sweeper featuring an improved design and available with a choice of chasses – Freightliner, UD, International, conventional or cabover. The new design features improved styling; an improved spray system water pump; more efficient hydraulics; a more robust sweeper, lift and hopper [...]

Every nervous flyer has his or her own checklist before taking off, just as the pilots in the cockpit have theirs.

Flotation device under the seat: check.
Access to the mid-plane emergency exits: check.
Nothing suspicious or odd [...]

As part of its efforts to help provide simple answers to questions about air and water pollution and clear up certain misconceptions in the marketplace about pollution control, Elgin Sweeper recently unveiled a dynamic Internet portal to serve as an information resource for the industry. Launched at the 2009 APWA [...]

Change a light bulb. Install a sign. Patch a pothole. The days of simply sweeping parking lots are long gone for many contractors. Instead, most shopping center and apartment managers are looking for “one-stop” maintenance.
That means that sweeping contractors, long at the forefront of parking lot work, are [...]