Article: Cleaning up with Parker plumbing. (installing Parker Hannifin Corp.'s fluid connectors to floor scrubbers)(Fluid Control)

How do you plumb the world's largest floor scrubber? Ask Parker Fluid Connector's technical team and they'll be glad to show you. They'll even do it with you - and bring their own parts and equipment.

That's what happened at Star Industries, Inc., a manufacturer of rider-type floor scrubbers based in Highland Park, IL. Star designed and built a remarkable floor scrubber with a 108-inch scrubbing path. The scrubber weighs close to 6,000 lbs. and can clean over three acres an hour.

"Our prototype scrubber measures 75 inches wide, 150 inches long, and stands about seven feet tall," explained Bernie Siegele, Star's President. "It can do many, many things ...

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