Industrial vacuum equipment manufacturer Triton Industries LLC, of Lottie, La., is renting out about 36 of its portable units for use in the Gulf oil cleanup efforts, and through news accounts says it expects to place another 300 units on barges. Popular models for the cleanup duty are 500 Series skid-mounted vacuum pumps, and 1500 and 2000 Series liquid ring pumps, according to Mike O’Rourke, Triton’s general manager. The series numbers refer to the CFM-rating of the units.The company was started by Mike James and has produced skid- and trailer-mounted vacuum units since 1997, O’Rourke says. Triton has posted several
