Water guns

Products

Pichkari and pressure water guns across price points, from pocket size to shoulder-carried tanks.

Moulded pressure water guns across the full size range, from a pocket squirt to a pump-action gun and a backpack reservoir. Injection and blow moulding on the same site, assembled and packed here, manufactured to ASTM and EN-71 with certificates issued per shipment.

Water play is not tied to a festival anywhere outside India, which makes this the part of the range that travels furthest. It is a summer toy in the northern hemisphere and a year-round one in warm markets, and that demand sits in a quieter part of our production year than the Indian festival peak, which usually works in a buyer's favour.

Where it is used

Water guns beyond the obvious occasion

Summer play
Garden, pool and beach play through the hot season. This is the demand that runs every year regardless of any festival.
Export retail
Seasonal toy aisles and value retail outside India, where the product is bought as a water toy with no festival attached.
Holi
The water half of the Indian festival, played alongside dry gulal once the morning warms up.

How these are made

Water guns are injection-moulded for solid parts and blow-moulded for the hollow bodies and reservoirs, then assembled, checked and packed on the same site. Doing both moulding types in one plant is what allows a design with a large reservoir and a fine mechanism to be made as one product.

Every raw material is tested before it enters the process, and quality control runs during the production run.

The floor at Faridabad is one shared pool: three injection presses, two blow-moulding lines and one set of assembly benches, run on two shifts at roughly 18 to 20 running hours a day. Internal pipes are cut on a sleeve-cutting machine, screws go in on automatic screw-driving tools, conveyor belts line the units up to the benches, and finished cartons are palletised for the bay. Set for simple squirt guns the floor sustains about 800,000 units a month; the mid pump-action runs to about 400,000, and the backpack tank to between 100,000 and 300,000, because it is slower at every step. The three classes share that pool.

Toy safety for export

Water guns sold as toys have to meet the toy safety standard of the destination market. Ours are manufactured to ASTM and EN-71, the US and European standards, and certificates are issued per shipment on request.

Buyers importing into a market with its own scheme should raise it at enquiry. Where a standard requires a specific test house or a specific mark, that is a decision to make before tooling runs.

From brass syringe to moulded pichkari

The pichkari is old. The traditional object was a brass or bamboo syringe, drawn and pushed by hand, and it appears in Holi painting centuries before plastic existed. The mechanism has not really changed; the material and the price have.

Moulding is what turned it from a household object into a product sold by the crate, and it is why a manufacturer that makes both the colour and the plastics ends up making both halves of the festival.

A pressure water gun being fired beside a pool — Water gunsPressure guns, from pocket to backpack.

Before you order

What is worth settling early

Seasonality: Capacity in the weeks before Holi is committed early. An order for that window should be discussed well ahead; an order for a northern-hemisphere summer sits in a different, quieter part of our year, which usually works in a buyer's favour.
Toy safety: Manufactured to ASTM and EN-71, with certificates issued per shipment. Raise any additional national scheme at enquiry.
Volumetric weight: These are light and bulky, so a container fills by volume long before it fills by weight. Carton configuration and nesting matter more to landed cost here than in any other category, and the loading plan is worked for each order.
Specifications: Dimensions, materials and carton configuration are issued per quotation against current production. Continuous-running rates per size class, and lead times for ready-made and custom designs, are published on the water gun manufacturing page.

Before you ask

Questions about water guns

What is a pichkari?

Pichkari is the Indian word for the water gun used at Holi. The traditional form was a brass or bamboo syringe drawn and pushed by hand, and it appears in Holi painting centuries before plastic existed. The modern pichkari is a moulded pressure water gun and works on the same principle. In India the word is used for the whole category, from a small pocket toy to a pump-action gun or a back-carried tank.

Do your water guns meet EN-71 and ASTM?

Yes. Water guns are manufactured to ASTM and EN-71, the US and European toy safety standards, and certificates are issued per shipment on request. If you are importing into a market with an additional national scheme, raise it at enquiry. Where a standard requires a specific test house or mark, that decision is made before tooling runs.

Are water guns only sold for Holi?

No. Holi is the peak, but water play is not tied to a festival anywhere outside India, and the category sells through the hot months and into export seasonal retail on its own terms. That works in a buyer's favour on timing: an order for a northern-hemisphere summer falls in a quieter part of our production year than the weeks before Holi, when capacity is committed early.

Fun Machines

Everything you throw the colour with.

A child wearing a back-carried tank pichkari in a garden

Water tanksThe refill that keeps a gun firing.

A gulal popper firing a column of blue colour powder

Colour gadgetsPoppers, cylinders and sprays.