ArcelorMittal Ostrava Implements Unique Cleaning Car
02/15/2011 - ArcelorMittal’s Ostrava's facility in the Czech Republic recently implemented a unique cleaning car, sucking bulldozer GapVax 9000, to support cleaning of its premises.
ArcelorMittal’s Ostrava's facility in the Czech Republic recently implemented a unique cleaning car — sucking bulldozer GapVax 9000 — to support cleaning of its premises. The new car, which has been in operation since late January, is not a typical bulldozer but rather a large mobile vacuum cleaner.
"This vehicle combines several benefit,” said Augustine Kochuparampil, CEO of ArcelorMittal Ostrava. “During the day it can clean our roads and in the afternoon we can use it to suck up dust at facilities such as the sinter plant. This combination makes it unique and the surrounding communities will immediately feel the positive environmental impact of this equipment.”
According to the company, the new car’s biggest assets include an extremely high sucking output and a high degree of versatility. Sucking tubes have an outreach up to 300 meters, and are able to suck in solid as well as liquid dirt from depths of up to 30 meters.
"It is a world class device which unlike all other sweeping cars does not scatter dirt into the surroundings but sucks it all into its filters," explained Eduard Blahut from the Transport plant of ArcelorMittal Ostrava.
The company anticipates numerous possibilities for use of the new car, including the facilitation of dust-free loading of potentially dusty material, and the cleaning of ooze tanks and pools as well as trenching.
