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 area of technology which has been dominated by the Italians with a strong manufacturing industry supporting this product category.
Some time ago, there were as many as 60 different manufacturers of pressure cleaners still operating in Italy which is disproportionately much higher than any other country 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.
Whilst the entry of China into the pressure cleaner market has been very quick, 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. With manufacturing costs more attractive than anywhere else, the petrol pressure cleaners allow for a more affordable quality option compared to the smaller machines made from this machine.
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 heats its own water within the unit, is a much more complicated unit than the much simpler, less complex cold water pressure cleaner. When the overall quality control process and the quality of steel 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 large pressure cleaning manufacturers are not interested in sharing technologies and world wide figures, therefore have no want for an overseeing 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. These sales numbers may be the same elsewhere in the world, although there’s no statistical data to prove this.
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