The rising cost of going stainless

The stainless-steel kitchen is getting pricier, as rising wholesale stainless prices boost the cost of refrigerators, stoves, and other appliances. The price of stainless steel has risen as much as 60 percent in the past year, reflecting a shortage world-wide due in large part to demand for the m…

Whirlpool, Ispat Inland Reach A Settlement

Whirlpool Corporation (NYSE:WHR) and Ispat Inland Inc. today announced that they have reached a mutually satisfactory settlement of their litigation filed in Berrien County, Michigan Circuit Court. The terms of the settlement are confidential.

Maytag Cuts Another 170 Jobs

In the same week that Matag close their plant in Illinois they have also announced that they will lay off a further possible 170 jobs from its washer and dryer plant in Newton.

Keep it clean. Self-cleaning, germ free coatings.

The modern world seems to be throwing up banana skins for we poor humans to slip up on. The more we try to clean up, the more inventive nature becomes in resisting our attempts or the more modern man wants to pollute it with the need for his toys and tools. Super-bugs in hospitals, emissions from…

LG Closes Down Pressurized Cooker Business

LG Electronics, South Korea’s second-largest electronics maker, is pulling out of its electric pressurized cooker business after a series of consumer complaints about explosions, its subcontractor said Monday.

ARGI : Association of Registered Gas Installers

www.argi.org.uk This site has been set up to enable Independent like minded Gas Installers to explore the possibility of creating an Association to represent us to the powers that be, with regards to gas matters. The excuse that, The independent sector is difficult to consult with, will no longer…

Afton Maytag Man named worker of year

Nominated by his college-age daughter, Mark Hunter, 44, of Afton, is Wyoming’s 13th annual American Worker of the Year, as named by Williamson-Dickie Manufacturing Company, maker of Dickies. “There’s not a better job on earl than mine,” Hunter said. “I love my customers and my daily duties. I cou…

I am living in filth.

How our dirty floors led us to a world of $2,000 vacuum cleaners, HEPA filters, motor bypass systems and the knowledge that a cleaning appliance can be stylish and sexy