It was an exciting week for Aztec Products during the ISSA/INTERCLEAN North America trade show, which was held at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando November 9-12, 2010. The trade show brought the Jan/San industry together for a week of networking, education and special events.

While Aztec’s trade show booth featured the ever-successful Sidewinder system and the ProScrub autoscrubber, the all new dust-control Answer buffer and the Aztec UltraGrind concrete grinder and polisher were no doubt the highlights of the show. Contractors and distributors were all a-buzz about these two new machines that are taking Aztec’s reputation for serious high speed floor care to a whole new level. The new dust control Answer buffer/burnisher solves the concern of IAQ (Indoor Air Quality). Meanwhile the UltraGrind concrete floor grinding, honing and polishing machine is truly something to see. Weighing over 800 pounds, it caught everyone’s attention.

If you would like to see Aztec’s dust control Answer and UltraGrind machines in person, stop by our outdoor booth # O30226 at the upcoming World of Concrete show in Las Vegas, January 18-21, 2011 at the Las Vegas Convention Center; you will even get to use the machines yourself!

Visit our Facebook page for pictures from the ISSA tradeshow: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Aztec-Products-Inc/83048477383?v=app_2373072738#!/pages/Aztec-Products-Inc/83048477383?v=wall

The 3rd annual International Concrete Polishing & Staining Conference (ICPSC) in Atlanta was Aztec’s first. Traditionally Aztec has only gone to the larger shows with more attendees, but since the successful launching of Aztec’s new concrete polishing line of machines, we decided to give this conference a shot. Unlike the ISSA or World of Concrete (WOC) shows where there are 15,000+ attendees, the ICPSC had only about 300. However at this conference every one of them was interested in polished concrete, and therefore was a potential customer.

The ICPSC was a very successful show for Aztec. In spite of all of the accelerants and hardeners put in trade show concrete slabs, we managed to get our 10×15 concrete slab cut and polished very quickly with our new UltraGrind machine. Some competitors (who shall remain unnamed) had a much harder job of opening up their floor. Some even resorted to riding on their machines to generate additional weight.

After we got the floor polished with the diamonds, we hit it with our new dust control burnisher, which really brought up the shine. It worked so well that we ended up lending it to 3-4 other competitors to get their shine up. You can see a picture of the floor with our logo reflecting in the floor, check it out on our Facebook page. The crazy thing is we got this level of shine only going to 800 grit.

The other great thing about the Aztec buffer was how fast it heated up the concrete. An infrared thermometer revealed that our new dust control buffer increased the floor temperature by 10 degrees per pass. We actually got the floor up to 127 degrees. This is significant because heat is a necessary ingredient to optimize many guard products.

People also liked the idea of the VCT crossover products that Aztec manufactures. The Guzzler is made to pick up floor wax slurry on a VCT tile floor, but works really well on concrete slurry too. The Grand Finale was designed to apply floor wax quickly and evenly to large VCT tile floors, but works great for densifier and guard products.

Last but certainly not least, Aztec was able to hire Skip Edwards as a new manufacturer’s rep for concrete polishing equipment. Skip has extensive experience with concrete over the years and is currently also a rep with Ameripolish. He will be covering concrete products sales in CA, NV, AZ and HI for Aztec.

It was not all work at the ICPSC either. Steven, Whit, Joe and Skip were able to catch a Phillies – Braves game on Friday night. The Phillies win was punctuated by a Grand Slam homerun by Jimmy Rollins.

We are now looking forward to the ISSA Jan/San show November in Orlando and the World of Concrete Expo January in Las Vegas. At the World of Concrete, we will have a 20ft x 30ft outdoor slab where you can try all of our machines for yourself. Please come and visit!

With the Labor Day holiday’s recent fly-by, we look ahead towards the cascade of falling autumn leaves that lead into dusty and salty floors. Stop by our product pages to see how Aztec can help make the transition from summer to the fall and winter seasons more profitable!

We will be introducing the all new UltraGrind propane powered, planetary head, gear driven, concrete grinding machine at the World of Conctrete show in Las Vegas, February 2-5, 2010.

The UltraGrind is the newest addition to Aztec’s extensive line of floor stripping, buffing and polishing machines.  The Aztec UltraGrind has been designed for the more aggressive concrete floor grinding applications, where the goal is to both remove material and highly polish concrete floors. The UltraGrind machine is complementary to the DiamondShine, which is specifically designed for ultra high speed, large area concrete polishing applications.

Weighing more than 500 pounds, the UltraGrind provides the ideal 40 pounds of head pressure per diamond abrasive for maximum results. The UltraGrind has industry-standard 2-inch exhaust ports for concrete dust vacuums.  The UltraGrind also has an 8 gallon water tank, potentially adding up to 80 additional pounds of head pressure, and allowing the user to re-wet the floor while grinding.  Like all of Aztec’s machines, it is made entirely in the USA.

The Aztec UltraGrind is powered by the new 26hp Kawasaki FX730V engine, featuring a heavy duty canister air filter.

Aztec’s VP of Sales, Steven Spengler said, “Our customers have requested for some time now that we manufacture a heavy duty concrete grinding machine.  Aztec is known industry-wide for quality, value and serious time and labor savings.  The propane powered UltraGrind is powerful, and will prove to be a valuable addition to the Aztec line-up for our contractor friends in the concrete floor industry”.

Whit Beverly, President of Aztec Products said, “We are really excited about having a gear driven concrete grinding machine to complement our DiamondShine polishing machine.  The gear drive of the UltraGrind will allow it to be used in the most aggressive floor grinding applications”.

Aztec Products, Inc. is a family-owned business based in Montgomeryville, PA.  For over 30 years, Aztec has developed a series of innovative floor cleaning machines that are engineered for quality work at high speeds, and has become known as the problem-solver for the floor cleaning industry.  Aztec is proud to manufacture all of its products in the USA.