Pressure Cleaners – What Is The Current State Of The Industry
Pressure cleaners, also referred to as water blasters, high pressure water cleaners, is an industry generally dominated by the Italians with large manufacturing support.
As recent as ten to fifteen years ago, there were over 50 manufacturers of pressure cleaners 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 more different companies manufacturing pressure cleaners but they are almost all manufacturing clone copy machines of pressure 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 petrol pressure cleaners allow for a more affordable quality option compared to the smaller machines made from this machine.
Small electric pressure cleaners have been manufactured in China in small numbers with different degrees of reliability success, but they have been limited in producing hot water pressure cleaners. The hot water pressure cleaner which heats its own water within the unit, is a more complicated machine to clone compared to the much simpler cold water units. When quality control improves and the quality of steel is also improved, 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 electric machines for the domestic market, other solely on large machines for the industrial market while others manufacture for all 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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