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Fayat Offers Dulevo and Ravo Sweepers in US

Mike Nelson is the USA General Manager for the Fayat Environmental Solutions sweeper product line.

The worldwide Fayat line includes four different sweeper makes, from four different countries: Dulevo, Mathieu, Ravo and Scarab. Fayat Environmental Solutions will continue to offer a full range of products from all manufacturers, but brand and product consolidation will occur and the brands promoted in the US will be Dulevo and Ravo. Read the story and watch the Zoomcast.

JTC Articulated Brings Egholm Sweepers to U.S.

JTC Articulated, LLC was begun in 2023 to represent the Egholm sweeper line in the United States. However, the principals have a 35 year background in the selling of articulated tractors. They now represent Denmark's Egholm line.

Read the info and hear the Zoomcast.

Canada's Holder Tractors Brings Karcher Sweepers to North America

Bridget Trepanier, Product Manager for the Karcher line of power sweepers, provides all the info about the sweepers made by Karcher that are entering the North American marketplace. Both info in an article and an @18-minute Zoomcast between us is at the link.

Holder Tractors has been in the North American market for over 45 years, primarily in the area of snow removal equipment. They have an established dealer network in the U.S., which is one of the reasons that Holder Tractors' distribution company was purchased by German-based Karcher. The year 2021 has been the product launch year for the Karcher products. Read the story.

Bike Lane Sweeper Concept is Bicycle-Pulled Sweepers

This is the story of an avid bicyclist who came up with the idea of making a bike lane sweeper powered by a bicycle, not just a traditionally-powered sweeper designed to pick up debris in a relatively narrow pathway. Pierre Lermant knows all too well the problems created by roadway debris, including flat tires, debris-caused accidents and others that occur when bicyclists swerve into the main roadway to avoid objects in the bike lane. To address these various issues, Lermant's idea is to build a sweeper designed to be towed by a bicyclist. Read about the bike lane sweeper concept.

Learning More About Private Equity Purchases of Sweeping Companies

To provide more information to sweeping contractors about private equity companies in general, and Broadtree in particular, in April of 2021 WorldSweeper's Editor, Ranger Kidwell-Ross, conducted a Zoomcast with the three principals involved in the recent purchase of Contract Sweeping Services LLC and Statewide Construction Sweeping LLC – two of Northern California's largest sweeping companies – by Broadtree Equity Partners, a private equity company. Read about the private equity buyout process.

An Interview With Keystone Plastics' Brian Naftal and Michael Santos

Keystone Plastics has a 50+ year tradition of providing quality, service and competitive pricing to the power sweeping industry's sweeper brush needs. The organization is the inventor of the AllPro Strip Broom, the AllPro Combo Strip Broom and the company's new AllPro Combo Wafer Broom. Read about Keystone.

An Interview With Mark Watje, President of Curbtender Sweepers, LLC

Wayne Engineering was long known as one of the top garbage truck suppliers in the U.S. In 2007 the company branched out into sweeper manufacturing under the name Wayne Sweepers via purchase of the Centurion sweeper from Tennant.

Since then, the company has increased its footprint into the sweeping industry, as well as reorganized with new investment partners and formed Curbtender Sweepers LLC in October 2017. Read the story.

An Interview With Greg Heyer, New President of Old Dominion Brush

For the past seven years Greg Heyer was the Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Customer Experience at Schwarze Industries, Inc., an Alamo Group company. At the first of 2018, Greg Heyer was rewarded for his accomplishments as a Schwarze Industries VP by being selected as the President of one of the sweeping industry's most iconic organizations, Old Dominion Brush Company (ODB). Read the story.

Victory Sweepers, a Roots Multi Clean Company

Victory Sweepers, Inc. went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy and was purchased in late 2017 by Roots Multi Clean (Roots), a family-owned conglomerate with a home base in Coimbatore, India. Robbin Hodges is Vice President of the new Victory Sweepers, now owned by Roots Multi Clean. We caught up with Robbin Hodges at the 2018 National Pavement Exposition in Cleveland. He assented to conducting a video interview at the Victory Sweepers booth. In addition to an overview of the information he provided, you are invited to view the approximately 10-minute video interview. Read the story.

Well Made Manufacturing: Making a New Kind of Parking Area Sweeper

The goal of Wells Ledger, president of Well Made Manufacturing, a new parking area sweeper manufacturer, is to build a sweeper that's low on maintenance. However, says Ledger, we'll also be using as many off-the-shelf parts as possible, to allow our customers to source many replacement parts at low cost locally.

The new sweeper, called the 'Twister Alley F1,' is a twin-engine sweeper mounted onto a Dodge ProMaster chassis and offers a 2.9 cubic yard hopper. The company is also selling its sweepers with a five-year "curb brooms for life" program. Read the story.

Johnston Sweepers, Ltd. Establishes a Foothold in the USA

An overview of the worldwide leader in road sweeper manufacturing, Johnston Sweepers, Ltd. In addition to a synopsis of the company spanning its start in 1904 to the present, we offer a 2012 interview with Bill Ackendorf, the acting general manager of the US affiliate, Johnston North America. Read the story.

Inventor of the miniBRUTE SWEEPER Targets Contractor Cost of Operation

Mike Primeaux has been a sweeping and landscaping contractor for over a decade. Unlike most contractors, though, for much of that time Primeaux has been using a sweeper of his own design. Because of the cost of purchase and operation of sweepers in the marketplace, Primeaux began designing his own number of years ago. Now, after a successful year-and-a-half of testing his current model, he decided he was ready to make his sweeper available for others to use. Read the story.

Profile on Mohawk's 'Labor Saver Dirt Shoe'

If you've owned even one mechanical broom sweeper, chances are you or your operator has run over some type of raised object and bent one of the skids on which the main broom rides. Second generation sweeping contractor, Charlie Ostuni, has developed a product that he says totally eliminates that costly problem. Read the story.

Stewart-Amos Sweeper Co.

In 1938, Al Amos founded what is today called the Stewart-Amos Company, maker of the Starfire line of mechanical broom sweepers. Initially, the firm was a distributor of mineral processing and aggregate production equipment for the limestone quarries located in Pennsylvania. Read the story.

Elgin Sweepers are a World Wide Force

Here's an overview of how the Elgin Sweeper Company got its start, as well as information about some of the sweepers in the company's product line. Read the story.