Industrial Vacuum and Cleaning Services

Highly professional industrial cleaning and maintenance solutions provided by the experts

Keep your industrial space in top condition.

Great Lakes Power Vac provides the highest-quality industrial vacuum and cleaning services to meet a wide range of unique and specialized needs.

Specialized Vacuum Services

Industrial Vacuum Services

Tank Cleaning

High-Pressure Washing

Oil-Water Separator Cleaning

Sludge Pumping

Why GLPV is the safest choice for your commercial cleaning needs

GLPV provides industrial cleaning services that require the most advanced equipment and employee competence in the industrial cleaning industry. Our technicians are thoroughly trained in all aspects of equipment operation, site safety, and compliance.

To ensure that highly complex duties are performed safely, our staff are trained in the following areas:

Industrial Vacuum and Cleaning Service Area

Serving the Midwest from our Pewaukee, Wisconsin headquarters.

Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana all have satisfied clients of ours.

Don’t compromise on the safety and cleanliness of your business

Get in touch with us now to take control of your situation by utilizing our top-quality industrial vacuum services.

Specialized Vacuum Services

Great Lakes Power Vac owns and operates a specialized fleet of high-powered, wet-dry vacuum trucks that are used in performing routine scheduled maintenance, plant outage or shutdown projects, as well as emergency response services. We have the right equipment to perform industrial cleaning and maintenance projects that vary in size, scope, and duration. Our main objective for each task is to meet the technical and quality control requirements throughout the process in an efficient, cost-effective, and safe manner.

GLPV vacuum trucks can remove most types of “special wastes” including liquids, sludge, and dry solids from a variety of industrial, agricultural, mining, and manufacturing settings including:

  • Sumps
  • Oil/Water Separators
  • Pits
  • Tanks
  • Silos
  • Clarifiers
  • Cisterns
  • Reservoirs
  • Boilers
  • Elevator shafts
  • Conveyor belts
  • Converting Equipment
  • Material Recovery Facilities
  • Metal cutting and bending
  • Blasting Equipment

Industrial Vacuum Services

Air-moving is a highly efficient and versatile process for removing salvageable materials or industrial waste contained in tanks, containers, surface impoundments, and/or process vessels. With our high-powered industrial vacuum loaders, we can recover, contain, and transport solids, dry-bulk powders, liquids, slurries, and thick sludge from hard-to-reach, hard-to-clean areas. Material or waste is deposited into truck-mounted debris chambers, 55 gallon drums, or other intermediate containers such as vacuum boxes or dewatering boxes, for transportation to the ultimate disposal location.

Tank Cleaning

Through the use of our specialized equipment and technical expertise, GLPV can clean a wide range of materials from waste storage tanks of all shapes and sizes. Vacuum Trucks, dewatering boxes, frac tanks, water blasters and other specialized cleaning and dewatering equipment can be mobilized to your site to clean your tanks and, in some cases, achieve waste reduction, and thus decrease disposal costs, through dewatering or other means.

High-Pressure Washing

High-pressure water washing, commonly referred to as water blasting, hydroblasting, or waterjet cleaning, is a safe and cost-effective method of cleaning interior and exterior surfaces of structures, tanks, silos, pipes, and other equipment and surfaces. The process removes various waste deposits and other built-up material by using water at varying pressures, temperatures, and flow rates. GLPV utilizes both manual blasting equipment as well as some automated equipment to remove the most stubborn and hardened deposits. Water blasting relies solely on the force of water to remove tough dirt and debris, rather than using abrasives or potentially harmful chemicals. Whether you are looking to clean hardened debris from a silo wall, a diesel storage tank, clogged pipes or drains, a food storage vessel, or any other similar vessel or surface, count on GLPV to provide high-pressure water blasting.

Oil-Water Separator Cleaning

Oil-water separators (OWS) can be expensive to maintain. A number of different problems can occur without proper maintenance, including sludge build-up, excessive floating oil, introduction of detergents, or various spilled chemicals reaching the OWS. Whether maintaining a simple system, or a more complex one, with baffles or oil skimmers, GLPV routinely performs OWS cleanings including ancillary services such as confined-space entry, sludge pumping, high-pressure washing, and waste transportation and disposal.

Sludge Pumping

Sludge pumping solves a number of difficult sludge conveyance problems. GLPV uses pumping systems that can move large volumes of highly viscous liquids, with a solids content as high as 30%. GLPV uses stand-alone, self-contained units that can be driven directly from the hydraulic system of an air-mover.