Covers often fade into the background of customers’ minds, until they start to fail.
Over time, covers become heavy, waterlogged and difficult to handle, requiring them to be replaced and discarded. Then the cycle starts again. Airframe Aquatics believes that cycle deserves a closer look.
When Logan Dowson owned a hot tub dealership, he regularly heard the same complaints: broken rear cover clips and the hassle of reaching behind the spa to use them.
Customers typically replace a spa cover three to five times over the life of the unit, making durability, efficiency and serviceability critical. With its new rolling spa cover, Core Covers aims to address all three.
When a new product takes off, it often inspires others to design accessories that enhance it even further. Take swim spas. Their rise in popularity has boosted sales opportunities not just for manufacturers but also for retailers. Still, their height — typically 53 inches or more — creates a challenge: How do buyers get in?
Covana, a Canada-based manufacturer of fully automated hot tub and swim spa covers, is constantly refining its products using feedback from its global retailer market.
Based in Québec City, Québec, Gecko Alliance Group has been a leader in spa design and manufacturing for over 30 years. While its core customers remain OEMs, manufacturers and distributors, Gecko has recently turned its attention toward a different audience: hot tub owners.
Concrete slabs and wood decks have long been popular choices for spa foundations — but prefabricated spa pads, which have been around for decades, are gaining traction as a convenient, cost-effective alternative.
For over a decade, Infinitree has served the spa industry through state-of-the-art spa cabinet design.
Balboa Water Group has partnered with WaterGuru, Inc. to bring advanced water monitoring technology to the spa industry.
Using surveys and interviews, Gecko Alliance, a designer and manufacturer of hot tub solutions, learned water maintenance was the No. 1 challenge for spa owners. Their solution: Gecko waterlab.
When it comes to hot tub accessories, there’s an endless supply of covers, cover lifters, tables, towel warmers, steps, surrounds, pillows, exercise equipment, umbrellas, chemical kits, lighting ensembles and more to entice customers to spend extra on their initial purchase — given the right information from a knowledgeable sales associate. As sales have slowed, raising the average sales price of a hot tub with key accessories is more important than ever.
The Polaris Spabot is a first-of-its-kind cordless, automatic cleaner designed for hot tubs.