Pressure Cleaners – What Is The Current State Of The Industry
Pressure cleaners, also known as steam cleaners, waterblasters, is an industry generally dominated by the Italians with large manufacturing support.
Some time ago, around 60 manufacturers of pressure cleaners existed in Italy which is the largest manufacturer in the world by far. Only recently, China has begun manufacturing and now have many manufacturing bases cloning pressure cleaners based on cleaners from Italy.
While China has entered the pressure cleaner market quickly, the overall quality of manufacturing still has a long way to go to challenge the Italian industry in this field.
In the area of pressure cleaners, China have made large inroads into the market of petrol powered pressure cleaners by cloning mostly Honda motors. While the developing Chinese market is lucrative due to the low manufacting costs, the pressure cleaners in this area of the market provide an affordable options compared to the smaller electric cleaners that do not match the quality of other manufacturers.
The Chinese market has yet to enter the hot water pressure cleaner market in large numbers, although their entry into the smaller cold water cleaners marker has seen mixed success in relation to reliability. The Hot Water pressure cleaner which basically heats it’s own water in the unit after it has been pressurized, is a much more complicated unit than the much simpler, less complex cold water pressure cleaner. Once the quality of the steel improves and the quality control process in manufacturing improves, the Chinese machines will make very fast inroads into the Commercial/Industrial market of Hot Water Pressure Cleaners.
The Pressure Cleaner industry world wide is enormous but the Industry as a group is very disorganised as a collective body and as such there is very little statistical data available on realistic market size, market share and joint manufacturing research and development.The larger companies are concerned about sharing technologies and sales figures, therefore have no immediate want for an all encompassing body.
The other difficulty with obtaining statistics from the different companies is that not all of them concentrate on the same markets in the pressure cleaner industry.Some focus solely on the small domestic markets with electric cleaners, others on the industrial markets with large petrol machines while the main companies manufacture machines for all types of markets.
Domestic or hobby machines make up most of the market, especially in Australia based on number of sales alone. These sales numbers may be the same elsewhere in the world, although there’s no statistical data to prove this.
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