CT 48 / 48 AC being discontinued?

[jronman]

I am a USA customer of Festool. I check the UK Festool site from time to time and I noticed the CT 48 and the CT 48 Auto Clean version are not available. I am not even seeing any product listing on the official Festool UK site. What is going on here? Has it been discontinued in the European market and if so will the North American market see a similar thing happen with the CT 48 /48 AC?

 

[jronman]

After Further investigation the Wayback machine is showing that maybe Europe never got the CT 48. I am surprised that NA got something Europe didn't. Usually it is the other way around.

 

[mino]

After Further investigation the Wayback machine is showing that maybe Europe never got the CT 48. I am surprised that NA got something Europe didn't. Usually it is the other way around.

The "home" site for Festool is www.festool.de. It is a german company.

The CT 48 models are casually available in Europe(ean Union).

Not everything is (directly) available in the UK. Especially since UK left the EU. The bigger vacs possibly did not sell historically. UK has a pretty specific market compared to the continental Europe.

 

[jronman]

True. I usually check the UK site because I only speak English. Looks like you can buy bags for the 48 on the UK site.