World Refuse Truck/Body & Street Sweeper Manufacturing Industry

A global profile, analysis, segmentation & trends underlying the manufacture of the bodies and vehicles used for refuse collection and street sweeper applications.

Refuse trucks and street sweepers are highly dissimilar products from country to country, and when combined with local government purchase practices that favor home manufacturers, it is not surprising that cross-border connections are minimal for these types of trucks.

Yet, in this quickly growing global world, these characteristics provide the very ingredients for the market for these products to become increasingly international, with growing trends towards eyeing foreign acquisitions and alliances. Sleeper markets of this type provide unique niche opportunities to companies already in the business that are seeking to apply their product know-how and technology towards international expansion.

This report is a first ever attempt to cohesively research, analyze and put into a structured format, “who is who” in the business of fabricating and assembling refuse trucks ands street sweepers on a worldwide basis.

The study further analyses on a region specific basis, the product characteristics which include vehicle type preferences, vehicle capacities, chassis and axle specifications, special purpose/customized features, export geography and future product outlook, including key product/technological innovations. This project involved eyeballing hundreds of companies in virtually all countries of the world to arrive at a final list of 150 identifiable players that are bona fide manufacturers of refuse trucks and street sweepers.

The report shows for the first time ever, an in-depth competitive and market analysis of the size, segmentation and trends underlying the global manufacture of specialty vehicles for refuse handling and street sweeper applications. The analysis segments the market into different geographic regions and types of vehicles for truck-mounted refuse collection, namely, rear loaders, front loaders, side-automated loaders, side-manual loaders and recyclers and truck-mounted, as well as purpose-built street sweepers, namely, mechanical, vacuum and regenerative.

This is an industry with around $6.4 billion of annual potential output for completed trucks including chassis, body fabrication and purpose-built special trucks (mainly street sweepers) that are built as integrated vehicles. In the refuse truck segment, there are 110 body fabricators, with the top ten accounting for nearly 40% of refuse body production, while in the street sweeper segment, there are 40 body fabricators, with the top five accounting for over 60% of body production and special built trucks.

The INTRODUCTION covers the scope of the report, methodology and statistical notes. The SUMMARY pulls together the study contents into a brief analysis and overview of the industry highlights. The INDUSTRY OVERVIEW is centered on a matrix that shows sales and summary shares across all product types, together with regional inter-comparisons to show an overall world picture.

PRODUCT REVIEW is a brief outline of the different refuse truck/body and street sweeper configurations covered in the report, together with the main features and recent advances in design/technology and materials, with due comparisons by regions.

MARKET SIZE & SHARE ANALYSIS BY PRODUCT TYPE/ SEGMENT presents research on each selected product type covered in the report, beginning with a By Region Market Analysis that focuses on sales figures for all regions for each truck body type. The values are further shown for chassis, bodies and purpose-built trucks, aggregated into a total production estimate for completed vehicles. This is followed with By Country Within Region, in which dollar value estimates are presented by region, further broken down by country shares based on plant location. Lastly, the By Manufacturer Within Region section shows the leading companies manufacturing each product type covered within each region in cumulative rank order.

MANUFACTURER DATA shows a matrix/tabulation of the sales, employees and manufacturing facilities at each company to arrive at a bird’s eye view of the underlying industry structure.

COMPANY PROFILES, based on a mix of interviews and/or other information, seek to describe company operations in a way that adds immeasurably to the overall understanding of this industry.