Pressure cleaners, also known as steam cleaners, waterblasters, is an industrial area which has been dominated predominately by the Italians.

Ten to fifteen years ago, over 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 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.

China have made a particularly large entry into the petrol powered pressure cleaner market, especially cloning motors such as Honda. 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. When the quality of the steel improves and the quality control process in manufacturing improves, the Chinese will quickly become large manufacturers 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 electric machines for the domestic market, other solely on large machines for the industrial market while others manufacture for all markets.

Small electric pressure cleaners dominate the market share in Australia based on sales numbers. This could also be similar around the world, although as noted above, there are no statistical evidence to prove this.

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