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Two of the biggest buzz words you may be hearing right now are diversification and green. The pavement maintenance industry is no different. Millennium Maintenance & Power Sweeping, Medford, MA, is one company that has put both of those buzz words into action.

Millennium started 10 years ago as a power sweeping company, says Owner and President Dave Ross. But it didn't take long for him to realize that the company needed to offer more than just sweeping services. Today, the company offers total facilities maintenance, Ross says. Services include striping, sealcoating, crack sealing, pothole repair, snow plowing, and even lawn maintenance. But sweeping has remained the company's "bread and butter."

In fact, Ross says sweeping comprises 50% of the company's business. Millennium's sweeping services include parking lot, construction, industrial, and parking garage sweeping with retail shopping centers being the main customer.

However, the diversification and addition of maintenance services has helped the company stay busy even when the economy is down - Millennium typically does about $5 million of work each year. It has also helped Ross stay ahead of his competition that do not offer as many services as Millennium and are therefore limited in what they can do. "I found that my customers like to use one vendor," Ross says. "We're able to bundle services together, offer a good price, cut down on all their paper work, and it's really starting to come about."

After 10 years in business, Millennium has grown to a company with 70 employees and 25 sweeping trucks. Ross's sweeping fleet consists of both mechanical broom and regenerative air sweepers from Elgin and Nite-Hawk. Millennium uses the mechanical broom sweepers for heavier sweeping jobs and the regenerative air sweepers for the lighter ones.