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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, around 60 manufacturers of pressure cleaners existed in Italy which is disproportionately much higher than any other country in the world. Only recently, China has begun manufacturing 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 quality of the manufacturing process as well as the materials used are not the same as used in Italy.

The particular area of the pressure cleaner market that the Chinese machines have made a massive and credible entry into is the gasoline or petrol powered cold water pressure cleaners. 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.

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 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 overall quality control process and the quality of steel improved, the Chinese machines will make very fast inroads into the Commercial/Industrial market of 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. This could also be similar around the world, although as noted above, there are no statistical evidence to prove this.

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