Business View Magazine | January 2020

125 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JANUARY 2020 James explains, “One day I was asked, ‘How would you clean an oil tank from outside the tank?’ I didn’t know, but after thinking about it, I configured something with parts off the shelf and other pieces of equipment and built a swivel. We call it the Twister. The company that requested it tried it out and it worked. And then they showed us, on paper, that the first three tanks they cleaned with it, saved them $2.8 million in tank cleaning costs. It’s a really simple device – working from a manway instead of being on the tank. Another advantage is that it’s built to get close to the floor in a horizontal cleaning pattern, but not aimed at the floor. That worked well.” Another of his patented inventions was the Kraken vacuum-fed, positive displacement system, which was a godsend at the time of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. In 2010, Triton Industries received national attention, including a number of awards for the role its equipment played in helping clean up that spill. James TR I TON INDUSTR I ES , LLC