Pressure Cleaners – A Current Look At The State Of The Industry
Pressure cleaners, sometimes also referred to as waterblasters, high pressure water cleaners, steam cleaners (in relation to hot water pressure cleaners), is an industry generally dominated by the Italians with large manufacturing support.
Ten to fifteen years ago, there were as many as 60 different manufacturers of pressure cleaners still operating in Italy which is by far the largest in the world. It is only very recently that China has really entered this industry and now have many manufacturing bases cloning pressure cleaners based on cleaners from Italy.
While China has entered the pressure cleaner market quickly, the quality of the manufacturing process as well as the materials used are not the same as used in Italy.
In the area of pressure cleaners, China have made large inroads into the market of petrol powered pressure cleaners by cloning mostly Honda motors. With the massive price advantage that the developing Chinese market has, the machines in various sizes and performance ranges have made a high performing pressure cleaner a very affordable option to the small electric pressure cleaners which cannot match the performance of the gasoline/petrol units.
The Chinese market has produced a number of small electric cold water pressure cleaners with varying levels of success in relation to reliability but the foray into Hot Water pressure cleaners has been much more limited. The hot water pressure cleaner which heats its own water within the unit, 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 large pressure cleaning manufacturers are not interested in sharing technologies and world wide figures, therefore have no want for an overseeing body.
The other stumbling block with obtaining statistics from companies is that not of them rely on the same markets.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. This could also be similar around the world, although as noted above, there are no statistical evidence to prove this.
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