The Sapphire Scientific 570 truckmount has earned the Carpet and Rug Institute Gold Seal of Approval. Gold Level certification indicates the highest level of extraction performance. The 570 joins Sapphire’s 370 Truckmount in winning this honor.

According to CRI’s Seal of Approval testing program, the 570 was tested for soil extraction performance, residual moisture and surface appearance change. In all categories the 570 exceeded expectations to obtain the CRI Gold rating.

“CRI’s gold approval confirms what our customers have known about the 570 for a long time,” said Ron Britton, Director of Cleaning Equipment at Legend Brands. “The 570 truckmount delivers world-class cleaning and represents a tremendous value.”

The 570 was introduced in June 2010 as Sapphire’s first truckmount to incorporate a liquid-cooled powerplant – the 31 HP Kubota 972 three-cylinder gasoline engine. Water-cooled engines typically provide greater longevity, a real bonus for high-volume cleaning operations. The Kubota is coupled to the Gardner Denver HF408 Helical Tri-Lobe vacuum blower, which employs helix-shaped lobes instead of straight lobes. This substantially reduces vibration, the primary cause of truckmount failure.

To provide the high steady heat that restorers need for successful cleaning, Sapphire paired a tube-and-shell heat exchanger with Sapphire’s patent-pending Thermal Well system. This setup extracts heat from three sources: the engine exhaust, engine coolant and from the blower. This system keeps the engine and blower cooler, helping to extend component life, and produces the hottest water of any comparable system.

The 570 is one of the six slide-in truckmounts in the Sapphire truckmount lineup, including the 370, the 460, 870, 2500HS, and the Rage, as well as the Pro-1200SE Direct Drive unit and the 3500 and 4500 Big Gulp extraction-only truckmounts.