Editorial Articles

The 2010 Pumper & Cleaner Environmental Expo International sticks to a proven formula: Exhibits, education, networking, fun.But this 30th annual show also...

Look up Jet-O-Rooter in the Syracuse Yellow Pages and you’ll see local numbers for the New York cities of Baldwinsville, Skaneateles, Fayetteville-Manlius,...

When I was a plumbing manager, I needed a special type of assistant. He had to be able to estimate jobs of...

After 20 years in business with Rabe Plumbing & Heating, with a service line in sewer and drain cleaning, owner Kevin Rabe...

The City of Ironton, Ohio, has chosen the Mr. Manhole Standardized Chimney Replacement System for a one-year, $12-million project to replace 1,033...

Question:Where is the biggest bang for your buck when it comes to advertising? I have used the local papers with little success....

If your business terminates an employee, that person may be entitled to unemployment benefits. Each state has its own program and rules,...

Rob Rome likes to think of his Guzzler combination truck as a Swiss Army knife of sorts. It’s an industrial dry vacuum,...

In a sink-or-swim move, Jeff McGill took a deep breath in 1995, borrowed $500,000, and plunged headfirst into the industrial cleaning market....

To the Editor: In the same October issue of Cleaner in which you had an article about safety (The Power of Stories,...

The Money Machines column in last month’s issue included one of the best slogans I’ve seen in the plumbing and drain-cleaning business:...

When I first discovered YouTube, I thought it was an amusing time-waster. I could watch TV commercials I loved as a kid...

The WaterJet Technology Association (WJTA) welcomed nearly 900 participants from 34 countries to the 2009 American WJTA Conference and Expo, Aug. 18-20...

Industrial cleaning is a growing field in which manufacturers constantly innovate with new tools for high- and ultra-high-pressure waterblasting. Tools serve a...

The 3-inch cast-iron pipe between the waitress station and bar at Kincaid’s Fish, Chop & Steakhouse in Bloomington, Minn., kept backing up...

Steel process lines and tubes are commonly cleaned using waterjet systems with pressures up to 40,000 psi. The risk of damaging these...

Branching into industrial coatings from commercial painting skyrocketed Service Painting of Florida in Ft. Myers from $3 million to $28 million in...

WJTA Forms Cleaning Association, Elects OfficersThe WaterJet Technology Association has formed the Industrial & Municipal Cleaning Association, a division of WJTA. IMCA...

Hearing loss is a serious issue in workplaces where noise is a constant. But apart from using sound-attenuated equipment and obeying OSHA...