Pressure Cleaners - What Is The Current 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.

Some time ago, over 60 manufacturers of pressure cleaners existed in Italy which is the largest manufacturer in the world by far. Recently, China has entered the market of manufacturing and now have many more different companies manufacturing pressure cleaners but they are almost all manufacturing clone copy machines of pressure cleaners from Italy.

Whilst the entry of China into the pressure cleaner market has been very quick, the quality of both the materials and the quality control of the manufacturing process still has a long way to go to seriously challenge the years of research and development which has put the Italians at the top of the tree as an industry.

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 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.

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, Chinese machines will quickly become take over the marker share in relation to hot water pressure cleaners.

The pressure cleaner industry is enormous world wide, but there is no collaborative work done between companies leaving very little statistical data or 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 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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