Singapore: the clean city
A fleet of Allianz sweepers was the contractor’s (Onyx Asia) choice for the latest street-cleaning contracts in central Singapore, internationally recognized as having some of the highest standards of cleanliness in the world.
Allianz helps Westminster
Twenty-one Allianz sweepers also service England’s city of Westminster, where the world famous Oxford Street hosts a million plus visitors per day. In fact, thanks to our incredible machines, the city of Westminster was recently voted Britain’s cleanest city.
New York City loves Allianz
The city of New York recently awarded Allianz Sweeper Company an order for 89 new street sweepers. The city is the world’s biggest sweeper customer with a fleet of 550 Allianz 4000 model sweepers. The 4000 models were used to clean up after the tragic events of September 11, 2001.
Award from Caltrans
The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has recently awarded Allianz Sweeper Company another order for 34 new sweepers. This is in addition to its existing fleet of 85 Allianz 4000 model sweepers.
Allianz wins hands up the Caltrans test
In 1990, the California Department of Transportation introduced what is now known in the sweeper industry as the toughest sweeper performance test in North America. The purpose of the test was to allow Caltrans a means of selecting only those sweepers that were tough and reliable enough to meet the brutal demands of sweeping more than 16,000 miles of the most diverse highways in the world—stretching to California’s borders with Oregon, Nevada, Arizona and Mexico. The machines that passed the test were put into service, sweeping the winding High Sierras, performing post winter clean up and cleaning the wind blown desert roads and highways throughout the entire state.
Caltrans staff conducted the test like this:
- 15% moistened sand was spread over a chosen test site, to a maximum depth of 1 1/2.”
- Sufficient sand to cover a 100 ft. long track was spread so that one full hopper load could be swept up in a single continuous pass.
- The sweeper was required to take five separate tests and comply with the following requirements each time:
- Sweep a width of not less than ten feet with both gutter brooms operating.
- Pick up not less than 90% of all sand from the swept path.
- Fill the hopper with a minimum of three cubic yards.
- Be randomly stopped twice, all sweep gear switched off, be re-started and continue with no stalling or jamming of brooms or conveyor system at any time.
Allianz was the only manufacturer ever to pass this test — each and every time!
