Almost immediately after receiving the call last month from Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal for clean-up equipment, Okahumpka, Florida-based Vac-Tron, the world's largest portable industrial vacuum equipment manufacturer, sent a fleet of equipment to the Gulf Coast region. Now the company is gearing up to increase production of specially-outfitted oil spill cleanup equipment - including a product called "Beach Vac"- to be deployed immediately for the extensive effort in the Gulf and beyond.
"The industrial vacuum is a safe, simple and cost-effective method of cleaning oil from the surface of the water as well as tar balls that wash ashore," said Don Buckner, CEO of Vac-Tron. "Using a skimmer held above the surface, the Vac-Tron equipment rapidly collects oil into a tank which can then be transported to a processing facility."
The Lake County-headquartered company's products are distributed in all 50 states through 40 plus national dealers and 120 dealer outlets. Equipment is available for dozens of wet and dry industrial, private and municipal uses including physical location of underground utility lines; industrial cleanup, man-hole, lateral and storm drain clean-out; and natural disaster cleanup.
To view video of this local company's efforts in the oil spill cleanup, click here.
