The Cleaning Industry

The cleaning machines industry is highly technology driven and extremely export oriented. The European turnover amounts to 1.5 billion Euros, the worldwide turnover to 3.5 billion Euros. State of the art technology, excellent processing and the development of new areas of application, secure the European manufacturers a good position within the scope of international competition.

Our Members provide machines and systems within commercial floor and high pressure cleaning. Cleaning systems posses a wide spectrum of applications:
Cleaning of buildings (floors, ceilings, walls)
Cleaning of land plots, productions sites and firms in the food industry
Cleaning of ships, aeroplanes and cars
Cleaning of receptacles and apparatus for the manufacturing technology
Applications for the area of building restoration and removal of paint and layers

Within the cleaning technology field, one differentiates between the four different basic processes: sweeping, vacuuming, scrubbing and high pressure cleaning.
Basic tools used for mechanical cleaning are, rotating brushes and vacuuming airflow (suction). Water has an outstanding importance which on one hand, operates as a solvent for dirt and on the other hand is used as a tool. A combination of several cleaning processes is possible and essential to economic use.

The most important floor cleaning machine groups are sweeping machines, vacuum cleaners and sweepers, floor scrubbers, single and multiple disc machines, layer removal machines and spray extraction machines. In the area of high pressure cleaning, high pressure water jets are used as a cleaning tool. A difference is made in this process between high pressure cleaning (25 – 250 bar) and maximum pressure cleaning (more than 250 bar).

In addition to machines manufacturing, detailed services are expected by the market. Based on the various possibilities of use of cleaning systems, a qualified consultation and customer care is carried out by the manufacturers. Furthermore, our industry offers a broad range of services: maintenance and repair, service and service-hotline, disposal /recycling of machines, used machines-trading, leasing / renting of machines and additional special services such as object consultancy.