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Pressure cleaners, also known as steam cleaners, waterblasters, is an industry generally dominated by the Italians with large manufacturing support.

As recent as ten to fifteen years ago, there were as many as 60 different manufacturers of pressure cleaners still operating in Italy which is by far the largest in the world. Recently, China has entered the market of manufacturing and now have many companies making pressure cleaners, most of the cloning machine made in Italy.

While China has entered the pressure cleaner market quickly, 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. With the massive price advantage that the developing Chinese market has, the petrol pressure cleaners allow for a more affordable quality option compared to the smaller machines made from this machine.

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 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, the Chinese will quickly become large manufacturers 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 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.

Small electric pressure cleaners dominate the market share in Australia based on sales numbers. These sales numbers may be the same elsewhere in the world, although there’s no statistical data to prove this.

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