The company was established in 1979 in Reggio Emilia, one of Italy’s premier industrial sectors, which is well known for its skilled labour force and high number of machinery and agribusiness equipment manufacturing plants. The company is a Leuco S.p.A. brand that is renowned for its high-pressure plunger pumps and accessories for industrial pressure washing and technology.
Their products are used in an almost endless array of fields and the brand has become world famous thanks to the painstaking devotion to customer care shown in everything from delivery to support services. For 30 years, they have been a leader in the design of industrial, heavy-duty, multi-plunger pumps, manufacturing high-pressure pumps and accessories under the widely recognized HAWK label with a product range offering of over 70 models sold around the world.
In 2000, their Quality System was certified in compliance with UNI EN ISO 9001 standards. In 2004, they joined the Group KÄRCHER, the world’s largest cleaning equipment manufacturer. This has given the company additional impetus to design and develop innovative products to satisfy the needs of the world market.
Their pumps and accessories are used in a variety of applications: pressure washers (hot and cold water) to clean motor vehicles, agricultural and gardening machinery, earth-moving machinery, industrial machinery, boats, aircrafts, cleaning and sanitization in the food industry, chemical industry, communities (schools, hospitals), farming (byres, stables, chicken runs, silos…).  Cleaning of tanks: industrial and food tanks, tankers, rubbish skips. Sandblasting of surfaces, building façades and walls; cleaning of monuments, cleaning and maintenance of ship hulls. Paint removal (paint-stripping) from buildings, fencing, and ships. Fixed installations, equipment and fixtures, car wash tunnels, drive-through wash systems, self-service car wash bays. Other applications such as fog and misting systems for residential, commercial, industrial and agriculture applications, fire-fighting systems, maintenance and cleaning of drains and sewers, water pipelines and many more.
For many years they have been selling their products to Africa mainly in the Northern Africa and South Africa and recently they sold their pumps to Uganda and Ivory Coast. They are interested and looking for OEM’s in Africa who can use their pumps in their equipment as well as distributors who can resell their products to smaller Companies and/or end users.
Contributor:
Hawk Pumps
Alberto Bertignon
