Expandable Garden Hose
Drip Irrigation System Kit
Hard Garden Hose
Multiple Accessories
As a garden tool that combines convenience and functionality, the future potential of expandable garden hoses can be analyzed in multiple dimensions such as market demand upgrading, technological innovation-driven, scene expansion, and sustainable development trends from AI friends.
With the acceleration of global urbanization, concepts such as "urban farms", "balcony economy" and "micro-gardening" have emerged. Home gardening has gradually transformed from a "hobby" to a "lifestyle". According to Statista, global people spent exceeded 150 billion US dollars on the home gardening market in 2023. Most of them are from China, Europe, America and etc.
For the users in small-sized households, they lack the large storage place. Traditional hoses need to be coiled up or placed upright, which takes up a lot of space. The expandable garden hose, in contrast, is able to be retracted to 1/3 of its original length or even shorter (for example, a 5-meter hose can be retracted to only 1.5 meters), highly suitable for small spaces such as balconies and storage rooms. Ans some of users change their mind from "ornamental" (flower care) to "practical" (such as growing vegetables and fruits at home). In scenarios with frequent watering and fertilizing, the "easy-carry and use" feature of the expandable hose has significantly improved efficiency.
Material Optimization: Adopt high-elasticity TPE, UV-resistant PVC alloy and other materials to enhance weather resistance (resistance to UV rays, resistance to high and low temperatures), and tear resistance. Some products incorporate anti-mold and anti-bacterial coatings to prevent the growth of bacteria in humid environments.
Structure Improvement: Multi-stage telescopic design (such as a 3-5 section linkage) makes the smoothness of stretching, and the built-in metal core strengthens the support to avoid excessive stretching deformation. The quick-connection reduces the probability of water leakage, and some high-end products can achieve "instant disassembly and assembly".
Intelligent Integration: Combined with Internet of Things technology, it integrates pressure sensors and flow control valves, which is through the APP to adjust the water flow or ON/OFF. And even the soil moisture sensor can be linked to achieve "automatic irrigation", attempting to be integrated with the intelligent sprinkler irrigation system to expand into the part of the "intelligent horticulture solution".
Home: Daily uses such as household cleaning, car washing, pet bathing and air cooling. The expandable hose is convenient and flexible to be stored and carried, which can replace traditional heavy-duty or long hoses and reduce the strength of manual handling, especially for the women and elder. And equipped with different nozzles of spray guns, to deal with your housework, cars, pets.
Public Facility Maintenance: For the landscape irrigation in parks and scenic spots (such as potted plants and flower beds), the irrigation equipment needs to be moved frequently to water, or cool in summer. The portability of expandable hoses (some products only weigh 1-2kg, mainly depends on the length) is reflected in their quick extension and retraction features.
Under the background of global "carbon neutral", both of some consumers and policies provide support for the products with recycling and low energy consumption.
Traditional PVC hoses have a difficult problem in recycling. But TPE, biological material are allowed to get into the conventional recycling system, conforming to the standards of REACH, FDA. And for the water-saving efficiency, some expandable hose with accurate nozzle (e.g., mist nozzle, cone nozzle, jet nozzle and etc.) to improve the water utilization.
The expandable hose still need to solve the problems of durability validation, price acceptance and standardization deficiency to release the market potential, although it has its advantages. Frequent expansion loose may lead to interface, material fatigue, needing the long-term use of test (such as 100000 scale experiment) to build trust from users. The prices of high-end expandable hoses (including intelligent function) may be 2 ~ 3 times higher than the normal. And at present, the industry lacks scalability can (such as maximum tensile length, shrinkage rate), the unity of the material security standard, to promote industry certification such as CE, SGS specification market.
