Many people know that the fully automatic car wash industry originated in the United States, but do you know the development process?
The development process of fully automatic car wash machines started with the first manual car wash shop in Detroit, USA in 1914, to semi-automatic equipment combined with manual scrubbing in Hollywood in 1940, and finally to the advent of the world’s first fully automatic car wash machine in 1949 by Sonny‘s, the advent of Sonny also marked the official beginning of the fully automatic car washing machine industry in the United States and in the World.
With the industry benchmark in place, other car washing machine brands are also booming. The American brand COLEMAN HANNA was established in 1960, and the German brand WASHTEC was established in the same year. Another industry-leading brand also comes from Germany, that is CHRIST, established in 1963, and in 1969. BELANGER was established in the United States, RYKO was established in North America in 1973, ISTOBAL was established in Spain in the same year, CECCATO was established in Italy in 1980, MACNEIL was established in the United States in 1982, and PDQ, the single arm touchless industry leader was established in the United States in 1984.
From the above establishment time of the world-leading car washing machine brands, it is not difficult to find that the history of fully automatic car washing machines is very important. It is necessary to have at least 30 years of production, R&D, and manufacturing experience to provide consumers with a set of well-operated and stable car washing machine equipment. Continuously collect feedback from car wash users and the frequency of failures to continuously upgrade hardware and software programs, and update the overall configuration and functions of the equipment through the development of the times and the special cleaning needs of users. A professional car wash machine manufacturer must be able to provide a customized car washing plan not only design the length of the equipment according to the customer’s actual installation site but also customize the functional configuration of the car washing machine according to the customer’s specific cleaning needs.
The main products of the brands mentioned above are different, but the product lines will all cover: tunnel car washing machines, rollover car washing machines, and bus and truck washing machines. PDQ has always specialized in single-arm touchless car washing machines, but to expand its customer base, it has also begun to produce equipment with brushes in recent years.
Choosing suitable car wash equipment mainly depends on the investor’s budget and pursuit of brand and craftsmanship. Of course, the above equipment is not cheap! If you want to invest in a car wash shop with less than 100,000 US dollars while ensuring high equipment stability and an extremely high cleaning effect, what other brands can you choose? Please read the next BLOG.