Intirion, a leading provider of products and services for home and away-from-home living environments, is making sure the new Craftworks(TM) refrigerator arrives just in time for holiday gift-giving. Online and telephone orders placed by December 13 will be delivered no later than December 24. Fo…
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Manufacturers in the dark over WEEE
Over half of global manufacturers of electronic and electrical equipment do not know how to comply with impending European Union recycling and environmental initiatives, a survey has claimed.
Vacuum makers get down and dirty in fight over bag vs. none
There’s a duel under way for the debris on your linoleum. And no lint ball, dust bunny or pile of pet dander is safe. The vacuum cleaner industry “” which sounds like it would be civil enough “” is engaged in a filthy battle to prove which dust-collecting method is tops. Many manufact…
China jumps into e-waste initiative
China has taken a big step towards establishing a collection and recycling system for waste electrical and electronics equipment (WEEE). That is expected to affect a wide-range of appliance and electronics equipment makers from around the world, as China is emerging as both a major manufacturing …
Merloni Can Begin Production at Polish Fridge Factory
Refrigerator producer Merloni Indesit Polska can begin production at its new refrigerator factory in the recently expanded L³dz Special Economic Zone after being granted official permission on December 2.
Maytag plans price hikes, but will they wash?
Maytag Corp., the appliance maker known for its lonely repairman ads, will charge retailers a little more next year to carry its appliances, but when and how the higher costs will wash with retailers remains to be seen
Electrolux to lay off 229
Electrolux Home Products announced it would lay off 229 workers, or 13 percent of its production jobs, as it shifts some work on a small chest freezer to China. The company said Thursday that the layoffs would be finished by Dec. 17. Most of the cuts would come from one third-shift production lin…
Whirlpool Keeps Ice-Maker Unit In Fort Smith
In a move that saves at least 80 jobs, Whirlpool has reversed course and decided not to move ice-maker production at its Fort Smith plant to a company that would have built the units in China. “Ice-maker assembly will remain at the Fort Smith division for now,” Whirlpool spokeswoman Mona Mendoz…
Einstein’s fridge kept on ice for 78 years
The German scientist Albert Einstein, who came up with the theory of relativity, was also responsible for a less celebrated discovery – a fridge. About 78 years after he invented it, a group of German physicists are building Einstein’s unique alcohol-powered fridge for the first time. Historians …
WEEE regulation timetable “impossible”, warn stakeholders
The timetable for new waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) Directive regulations has been as “impossible” by industry stakeholders. Replies to the government’s latest consultation said that it was a risk to rush through complex regulations in a short timescale and the time given for d…