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Pressure cleaners, also referred to as water blasters, high pressure water 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, around 60 manufacturers of pressure cleaners existed 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 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 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. While the developing Chinese market is lucrative due to the low manufacting costs, the machines in various sizes and performance ranges have made a high performing pressure cleaner a very affordable option to the small electric pressure cleaners which cannot match the performance of the gasoline/petrol units.

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 lot more complicated than the cold water pressure cleaner. Once 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 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.

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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