The commercial clothes dryer market: Market structure and opportunities for microwave dryers. Final report
- National Analysts, Inc., Philadelphia, PA (United States)
EPRI`s prototype commercial microwave clothes dryer offers significant benefits over conventional dryers, including faster drying at lower temperatures, less damage to fabrics, and possible drying of some dry-clean-only fabrics. With the technical challenges overcome, EPRI sponsored the microwave dryer project to gauge the likely market response to this new drying technology and to determine the best marketing approach for commercial microwave dryers. This market assessment provides information about the dryer features required in various commercial market segments as well as guidance in choosing the segments and subsegments most likely to accept microwave clothes dryers. At present, the market segments most amenable to microwave dryer technology include the coin-operated, medium, and large dryer owners. Promising subsegments include the apartment coin-operated market and businesses that have capacity constraints, low fuel cost sensitivity, or extremely low dryer usage.
- Research Organization:
- Electric Power Research Inst. (EPRI), Palo Alto, CA (United States); National Analysts, Inc., Philadelphia, PA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 109511
- Report Number(s):
- EPRI-TR-105497
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: Aug 1995
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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