Awards of Excellence in Power Sweeping

At the National Pavement Exposition held in February, the 2011 WorldSweeper.com Award of Excellence in Power Sweeping was awarded to Michigan-based Ray Confer, President of C&J Parking Lot Sweeping, Inc.

For more information about the company and why Confer and his company were chosen, take a look at the PDF press release on the Award.

Click on the YouTube-hosted video, below, to view the presentation.

To learn more about Ray Confer's history and his efforts on behalf of the sweeping industry, you are invited to check out our feature story on the company, which was the result of an interview with Ray Confer – along with his VP of Operations, Rod Moore – prior to them knowing they would receive this Award.

The company's website is located at www.cjsweep.com.

Winner for 2010, Allan Heydorn, editor of PAVEMENT Maintenance & Reconstruction Magazine.

Winner for 2009, South Carolina-based Dale McCaskill and his company, Southco Sweeping.

Winner for 2008, Seattle-based Davidson-Macri Sweeping and SweeperMarket Magazine.

First Award Winner, Gabriel Vitale, owner of C and L Sweeping in New Jersey.

Winner for 2006, Gale Holsman, owner of American Sweeping, Inc. in Kansas City, Missouri.

Eugene Hansen, the founder of Minnesota-based Clean Sweep, Inc.

Mark Carter, co-owner of Los Angeles-based Bill's Sweeping.

Bob Schwarze, founder of Schwarze Industries, Inc., and his son, Mark, were the winners for 2002.

In 2007, the WorldSweeper.com Award of Excellence in Power Sweeping was awarded to the B.W. Young family and the company he founded, The Young Manufacturing Company -- better known in the sweeping industry as the TYMCO sweeper company.

Tom Ostuni is a man who in 1966 looked at an industry in its infancy and saw its potential. He took a single sweeper and a single account and turned it into a full-scale success, helping many others along the way.