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Fall Foliage and Fleet Maintenance: Why Quality Brooms Matter

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As we welcome the fall season, it’s crucial for our distributors to be equipped with the right in-stock items for municipalities. At Keystone Plastics, we recognize the unique challenges that fall presents, and we are committed to providing distributors with the highest quality street sweeper brooms to keep communities clean and safe. If you need an in-stock street sweeper brush quickly, we take pride in our fast shipping and are confident you’ll be satisfied with your purchase.
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The Keystone to Efficiency: How Keystone Plastics Masters the Art of Shipping

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At Keystone Plastics, we understand the importance of getting our product to our customers quickly and affordably. Our shipping department plays a vital role in our success and is one of the reasons we stand apart from our competition. We handle it all with a customer-first mindset, from start to finish. We know and understand how to reduce shipping costs for our brooms because it’s been the backbone of our company model since day one. Continue reading “The Keystone to Efficiency: How Keystone Plastics Masters the Art of Shipping” →

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Gutter Brooms – Everything You Need To Know

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Welcome to Part 3, of our series Everything You Need To Know About Street Sweeping Brooms featuring Gutter Brooms.

Gutter brooms, or side brooms are the brooms on the side of street sweepers, usually pick-up sweepers or vacuum sweeper.  There are a few sweeper attachments that also have an option for a gutter brooms. Gutter brooms are round in shape and rotate to pull debris from the curb line into the center of the sweeper.

The most common bristle type used in a gutter broom is wire. The wire gives an aggressive sweep and cuts through the curbside debris. There is also a poly bristle option for a gutter broom. Poly is typically used for sweeping airport runways and other applications that require a less aggressive sweep.

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Tube Brooms – Everything You Need To Know

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Welcome to Part 2, of our series Everything You Need To Know About Street Sweeping Brooms featuring Tube Brooms.

Tube brooms have been around for a long time and have always been a standard in street sweeping. There are three different tube broom styles in order to accommodate the various types of sweepers and different applications within the industry.

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Everything You Need to Know About Street Sweeping Brushes – Part 1: Wafer Brooms

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Brooms are the core of any street sweeper. There are many different types of street sweepers for different sweeping applications and each one uses a replacement broom. There are four main styles of street sweeping brooms. We’ve developed an educational series called Everything You Need to  Know About Street Sweeping Brushes to help educate folks in our industry on the different types of broom options. This post will focus on Wafer Brooms. 

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