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VACTOR MANUFACTURING INC.
High-Pressure Competitor
A history of technological innovation has allowed sewer cleaning company Vactor Manufacturing Inc. to
become the leading manufacturer in its market, serving customers worldwide.
F or more than 45 years, Vactor Manufacturing Inc.
has been the leader in the production of sewer
cleaners, the company says. Vactor attributes its
success to its “rich history” of almost 100 years and a ded-
ication to technological innovation and custom config-
urable design.
The company says its strengths in this field have
allowed it to sell more than 10,000 units worldwide, which is
far more than any other sewer cleaner manufacturer.
“Vactor Manufacturing Inc. is committed to being the
leading provider of innovative environmental solutions
[and] delivering quality and value to our customers while
continuously improving our quality and environmental
management system,” the company says.
Vactor Manufacturing Inc. Founded in 1911 under the Myers-
www.vactor.com Sherman name, the company’s early oper-
Headquarters: Streator, Ill.
Products: Sewer cleaners ations focused on designing and manu-
Dan Schueller, general facturing agricultural products such as
manager: “We take the best milking machines, hammer millers, feed
technology in the industry and
build every Vactor with care blenders and mixers, as well as total grain
and precision.” storage and conveying systems. “What
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Vactor says the use of pneumatics
in its sewer-cleaning trucks results
in quality systems.
most of these products had in common with today’s prod-
ucts is that they used pneumatic conveyance in their
design,” the company says.
In the early 1960s, using its expertise in pneumatics,
Vactor began to design, patent and manufacture a line of
sewer and catch basin cleaners for the municipal public
works market. These units were designed to remove
obstructions from clogged or plugged sewer lines, culverts
and catch basins, the company says.
In 1969, Vactor introduced the first combination sewer
cleaner to combine water jetting and vacuuming action,
which, the company says, resulted in the fastest, most-thor-
ough cleaning job possible.
In that same year, the Vactor Jet Rodder Water Pump was
introduced, which is the only pump specifically designed
for sewer cleaning, Vactor explains.
“The Vactor Combination Sewer Cleaner 2100 Series was
first introduced in late 1989 and has been continuously
improved since then,” the company says. “This series of
sewer cleaner features ModulFlex Design that allows every
customer to build a machine engineered to his specifica-