Equipment

This equipment is expensive, with the average vacuum truck or street sweeper costing $200,000, and the average sewer jetter costing $100,000. As highlighted in the table below, K2 has over 2,500 pieces of equipment located across the country, allowing it to compete more effectively against smaller, regional players who lack the financial resources to make substantial and recurring investments in new equipment. Many regional competitors typically have a total fleet of only five to twenty-five pieces of cleaning and/or coating equipment, limiting their ability to provide the same level of customer responsiveness and technical capabilities.

Summary Listing of K2's Equipment:

• Industrial Cleaning Equiptment
  • Dry Vacuum Trucks
  • Wet Vacuum Trucks
  • Hydroblast Pumps
  • Hot Pressure Washers
  • Sewer Jetters
  • TV Camera Vans
  • Vacuum Tankers
  • Front End Loaders
  • Street Sweepers
  • Soda Blasters
  • Box Trailers
• Sandblasting Equipment
  • 600 # Blast Pot
  • Canned Sand Unit
  • Sand Hopper
  • Remote Switch
  • Air Manifold
  • Sandblast Hood
  • Turbo Units

• Pick-Ups and Stake Bed Trucks
  • 1/2 Ton
  • 3/4 Ton
  • 1 Ton
  • 1 1/2 Ton
• Painting Equipment
  • Paint Pots w/Mixers
  • Conventional Guns
  • Airless Pumps
  • Airless Guns
  • Air Compressors
• Fireproofing Equipment
  • Fireproofing Pumps
  • Guns
  • Mixes
• Roofing Equipment
  • Kettles
  • Metal Breaks

In addition to its extensive equipment, K2 makes ongoing investments in the latest industrial cleaning and coating technologies as they become available on the market. Investments in high technology equipment provide K2 with a competitive advantage because the new equipment typically has improved safety characteristics, and enhanced performance/quality characteristics. Following are two examples of K2's recent investments in high technology equipment, and the advantages that are realized by the Company when compared to more traditional methods of performing the same service.

K2 utilizes the Idro-Jet, a unique, hydraulically driven, trailer mounted tube lancer from Italy that cleans up to eight heat exchanger tubes simultaneously. Most other cleaning contractors use single hand-lancers that only allow for the cleaning of one heat exchanger tube at any given moment.

For the removal of lead-based paint from large petrochemical storage tanks, K2 utilizes the Hydro-Cat, a highly advanced blasting and vacuuming machine that robotically climbs up and down the sides of tanks, performing 100% of the removal of lead based paint while simultaneously vacuuming all paint chips and debris into an enclosed vacuum tube. The Hydro-Cat deposits all waste material into nearby collection boxes for ease of disposal without exposing the environment to any potentially hazardous materials. To perform similar work, most other coating contractors have to erect large, expensive containment enclosures around the tanks and hang employees out of spider baskets who attempt to remove the paint through sandblasting techniques. This procedure is much more dangerous for employees and more time intensive.