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compliant, have strong relationships with<br />

local vendors, and are headed for their<br />

best year ever.<br />

“It’s working out really well for us so<br />

far,” says Sundell with both pride and<br />

relief. “It’s really starting to take off.”<br />

LEANEST, MEANEST, GREENEST<br />

“We are definitely the greenest vehicle<br />

wash system company out there,” says<br />

Sundell. “We have the greenest bus<br />

washes and truck washes.”<br />

In Sweden, where Sundell learned<br />

his trade, there’s strict regulation<br />

about collecting and purifying<br />

runoff from industrial washes. This<br />

spurred innovation into low-usage,<br />

cost-effective technologies, resulting<br />

in machines that use nearly half the<br />

water, chemical and electricity of<br />

Water Recycling<br />

Westmatic’s competitors in North<br />

America. Operating costs are also<br />

nearly half of what they’d be for<br />

conventional machines.<br />

Sustainable water policy is still in<br />

its infancy in the U.S., so together<br />

with their patented water purification<br />

system, Westmatic is ten or fifteen<br />

years ahead of the industry, in<br />

Sundell’s estimation. “Changing the<br />

regulation, making it mandatory to<br />

have a wash water purifying system,<br />

that would be big for Westmatic NA,<br />

and the environment as well” he says.<br />

“That’s going to take time. We think<br />

it’s definitely going to happen – it’s<br />

just when it’s going to happen, really.”<br />

Westmatic also offers a unique<br />

self-service system called the <strong>Wash</strong><br />

Control 3000, which allows their

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