We’re starting to hear from manufactures in the liquid waste industry who are being called on to provide equipment that will be vital to the Gulf oil disaster long-term cleanup operation.For the past three weeks, tank manufacturer Imperial Industries Inc. has dedicated its production capacity to building 450-gallon aluminum slide-in vacuum tanks that are being used on boats and barges in the Gulf to skim oil from the ocean’s surface. According to general sales manager, Tom Aerts, the Wisconsin company has produced about 40 units destined for the Gulf, 25 of them in one order through distributor TankTec (Tank Technologies
