The EUnited Municipal Equipment Sector represents leading European manufacturers of municipal vehicles and equipment for refuse collection, winter maintenance, and surface cleaning.
Its members produce a wide range of refuse collection vehicles designed to meet high European safety and performance standards.
Surface cleaning machines, including truck-mounted and self-propelled sweepers, are engineered for efficient use in public areas, roads, airports, and industrial facilities.
EUnited – MEQ members account for over 90% of the European market for sweepers, driving innovation, safety, and technical standardization across the sector.
The section members are the leading European manufacturers of refuse collection vehicles. The manufacturers offer front-, side- and rear-loaded refuse collection vehicles for collection of household and industrial waste.
A huge diversity of technical solutions on lifting devices and pick-up systems is necessary to pick up and empty all the different designed waste containers all over Europe. Refuse collection vehicles have to comply with European high-level safety and performance standards to ensure a safe and trouble-free collection of waste in European cities.
The members of this section are European small- and medium-sized manufacturers of winter maintenance equipment such as snow-clearing machines, e.g. snow ploughs, snow blowers and cutters and spreading machines mainly used on public areas, roads and airports.
The main technical topics of this branch are European standardization and harmonization, the interfaces between attached equipment and the carrier vehicles and the standardized test procedure for spreading pattern and performance.
This section includes manufacturers of surface cleaning machines for outdoor applications on public areas, roads, airports and industrial plants. EUnited Municipal Equipment represents more than 90 % of the European market.
These highly sophisticated cleaning machines range from truck-mounted sweepers, where the sweeping attachments are fixed or mounted on a standard vehicle-chassis, to self-propelled compact sweepers with a specially designed chassis, using integrated sweeping attachments and associated sweeping equipment.
