MARTIN, Tenn. (AP) -- A bedding company in West Tennessee is swamped with work because of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Dan Chadwick -- vice president of Regency Pads Corp. in Martin, Tenn. -- told Kentucky newspaper The Paducah Sun the company's pads sop up floating oil while pushing away water.
Chadwick says he demonstrated the pads to BP engineers at Orange Beach, Ala., in early July and says the company is now trying to keep up with demand for them.
Regency shipped its first order on June 16 and has an order for 840,000 square yards of the mops, which are wrung out to collect the oil. The plant in Martin is shipping two tractor-trailer loads of mops per week and plant officials hope to double that amount.
