Oil Purification Systems, Inc. (Oil Purification Systems) has signed an agreement with Waste Pro USA, Inc. (Waste Pro) to deliver oil purification systems (OPS)-1 on-board fluid cleaning system. The OPS-1 system will be installed on Waste Pro’s fleet of over 800 collection vehicles. The OPS-1 system will enable Waste Pro to extend the time between oil changes, saving time and money on maintenance costs, while also minimizing negative effects to the environment.
Waste Pro will roll out the implementation state by state at its 31 locations across Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and Alabama.
The OPS-1 system has allowed us to immediately triple the useful life of our lube oil. As we consistently see clean samples at that level, we expect to extend our drain intervals even further, said Steve Judge, corporate maintenance director for Waste Pro.
Waste Pro is focused on achieving continuous improvements throughout the company and in the services we provide to our customers, said John Jennings, CEO of Waste Pro. By implementing the OPS-1 system on our fleet, we will be able to increase our equipment uptime with fewer oil changes, and also do our part to protect the environment by decreasing our waste oil. This is something that will not only benefit our company by lowering costs, but will also help us better serve our customers.
The OPS-1 agreement is the latest environmental initiative undertaken by Waste Pro. As the company has grown and evolved, it has pro-actively entered the green age by purchasing environmentally-conscious vehicles to help reduce the carbon footprint and creating LEED certified pick-up for its customers. In the summer of 2008, Waste Pro acquired American Recycling with operations in Atlanta and Birmingham, Alabama. As a result of this acquisition, Waste Pro was awarded a long-term contract for the Atlanta Hartsfield airport to manage its recycling and waste collection. This will be the first large U.S. airport with such an extensive recycling program.
We are seeing more and more waste and recycling companies take an interest in environmental sustainability in relation to their own fleets, and Waste Pro is definitely a leader in this initiative, said Greg Slawson, chief operating officer for OPS. As the company has grown through the years, it has continued to seek out innovative approaches that will help the business be more efficient and better serve its customers. The OPS-1 technology is yet one more way to help this successful company stay ahead of its competition.