Pressure cleaners, also referred to as water blasters, high pressure water cleaners, 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. 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 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 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 heats its own water within the unit, is a more complicated machine to clone compared to the much simpler cold water units. 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 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. This could also be similar around the world, although as noted above, there are no statistical evidence to prove this.