BeachTech—removing oil and tar balls from your beach!

Removing oil from the sand is not easy and not all beach cleaning manufactures are successful in oil clean-up operations. One valuable piece of information gained from the major clean-up efforts around the world is that beach cleaning machines that don’t pick up the entire sand surface, (and instead use raking tines to rake the surface), are incredibly destructive when placed into this type of hazardous oil clean-up. By raking the beach, the tines will smash the oil clumps, staining the surface and burying the oil into deeper layers of sand—areas that may not have been affected before!

On the BeachTech machines used in oil response clean-up, these tines are deactivated and the pick-up blade is used to carefully "scrape off" the entire contaminated surface layer—something a raking machine just cannot do. By scraping the layers of sand, (imagine a 6’-8’ wide shovel) and then bringing the entire sand surface layer onto the tried and tested screening system, the sand is separated from the oil clumps and the clean sand is returned to the beach.

With our patented and uniquely adjustable cleaning technology, the BeachTech equipment is perfect for removing oil slicks and tar balls from the beach. By carefully picking up and removing only the top layer of sand, the BeachTech machines can remove the oil without destroying the oil clumps, insuring the least amount of environmental damage possible.

Worldwide references for cleaning oil spills from beaches.
Around the world and from coast to coast, BeachTech has the most experience of all beach cleaning manufacturers when it comes to removing oil slicks and tar balls from sandy beaches. The BeachTech machines where the only type of beach cleaning equipment to successfully operate after the four large oil spills over the past 20 years.

• 1990 after the disaster from the damaged oil tanker "ERIKA", there were 48 BeachTech machines used in cleanup-efforts.
• 2003, after the sinking of the tanker "PRESTIGE", an even higher number, 98 machines, were used to successfully remove the oil from Spanish and French beaches along the Atlantic Ocean.
• 2009 after the oil spill along the Sunshine coast in Australia, there were 6 BeachTech machines in operation.
• 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico, the beaches were restored to their original beauty and normality within several weeks, using more than 30 BeachTech machines.