Although widely used in Europe since the 1920s, auger-type compactors are quite rare in The USA and Canada in mobile collection bodies. The few other examples to ever cross the Atlantic include the Krupp rear loader in the 1920s, and the Norba-designed Gruncher built by Wayne Engineering from about 1977-1985 as a rear loader or automated side loader (ASL). Ginove is credited with brining the auger-compaction automated side loader back to North America with the revolutionary Roto-Pac, which debuted in 2013.
Sometimes marketed as an organics collection unit, the mono-screw Roto-Pac is is also quite capable on household refuse collection routes as well. Stablemate to Roto-Pac is a mini side loader with a conventional pusher blade which was first produced in 2010. The Roto-Pac has been distributed in the USA since 2017 by New-Way of Scranton, Iowa. In early, 2020, Ginove was acquired by the parent company of New-Way, with production scheduled to commence at a new plant in Booneville, Mississippi. In a separate agreement, Durabac (owner of Chagnon and Inpak) has taken control of the Saint-Casimir shop and will assume Canadian distribution of the product line.
Early Ginove Roto-Pac circa 2014
Ginove Mini side loader
MWS-700 cart washer
2013 Ginove Roto-Pac demonstration
Ginove team celebrate the 150th Roto-Pac built in 2018
