Condensed Air Cans Annual Sales
I was able to find a brief summary of the survey that gave estimates for total production of the aerosol industry at 4 billion units.
The total figure does not help us out very much, as there are a lot of
alternative uses for aerosol that we do not care about. To narrow
the data down to only condensed dust-cleaners, I found data from the
U.K. that breaks down total aerosol sales into separate categories and
lists the number of units sold within each category. In order to
make the U.K. data be applicable for the U.S., I converted each
category in the U.K. data to a percentage of total sales and then
multiplied this percentage times the total unit sales from the U.S.
data (this assumes that the breakdown of aerosol sales across
categories is similar between the U.S. and U.K.). My results are
on the following pages.
U.S. aerosol production in 2008 was the fifth highest year for the
industry, according to CSPA’s 58 the annual Aerosol Pressurized
Products Survey. North America maintained a one-third market share of
global aerosol production, with personal care and household products
ranked as the two strongest product categories. The survey estimated
overall unit production of 3.643 billion aerosols in the U.S. in 2008 —
a 0.3 percent decrease from 2007, which was the third highest year for
production at 3.655 billion units. The highest year recorded was in
2005 with 3.738 billion units produced. CSPA estimated total North
American aerosol production in 2008 as 4.072 billion units,
representing a 0.8 percent decline from 2007.
The survey, which reports the unit volume of aerosols filled and
shipped for domestic use in 2008, as well as estimates for Canadian and
Mexican production, has served for more than half a century as the
primary index of the business strength of the aerosol products
industry. The survey was released at CSPA’s Mid-Year Meeting in
Chicago, IL.”
Source: http://www.cspa.org/public/media/ 2009 Annual Report
“In fact, the chemical propellant used in Dust-Off is common in the aerosol industry, and Dust-Off represents less than 1 percent of the aerosol industry's annual domestic sales of 3.5 billion units.”
Source: http://www.intervene4ateen.com/documents/Huffing.pdf
UK
Statistics
Using annual unit sales of 4 billion (taken from the
summarized survey results on the previous page), we get the following table of
likely candidates. Depending on which
category compressed-air electronic dusters fall under, our results will
change. One of the following categories
should be a fairly decent estimate on the sales level of compressed-air dust
cleaners.
| Category |
Unit Sales |
| Waxes / Polishes |
93,415,504 |
| Window / Glass Cleaners. Other Household |
226,078,495 |
| Other Personal |
69,737,269 |
| Industrial |
55,465,456 |
| Miscellaneous |
55,789,815 |