America’s first drive directly linking refrigerator recycling to the purchase of more energy-efficient refrigerators kicks off Earth Week on Saturday, April 17, when JACO Environmental, in partnership with Nevada Power, launches a model program at an Earth Week fair in Las Vegas, Nev.
Author: admin
Electrolux trying to persuade suppliers to move to Mexico
As Electrolux moves hundreds of jobs from Greenville to Mexico, the company is trying to take hundreds more with it.
France still tops investment table as Whirlpool deal brings home the bacon
The deputy head of the Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency (PAIiIZ), Sebastian Mikosz announced yesterday that three of Whirlpool’s subcontractors plan to invest between $10-20 million each in the outskirts of Wrocław in the near future.
Wal-Mart to Use Radio Frequency Identification Tags
Crates of shampoo headed for Wal-Mart’s shelves will silently announce their arrival to a computer when they roll through a cavernous Dallas warehouse. Quicker than you can say “hydrating curls,” the computer will check whether they are the same crates of Pantene that rumbled out of Procter &…
Brothers in fire rescue
Two teenage brothers had to be rescued from a bedroom yesterday morning after a fridge fault sparked a fire at their home.
EastEnders’ Bianca’s accent on spin as men come clean
FORMER EastEnder Patsy Palmer was in Wales yesterday to help teach men how to wash clothes. Patsy, famed for her famous “Ricckee” shriek as Bianca in the Cockney soap, has been hired by washing machine manufacturers Whirlpool.
Fisher & Paykel Plans to Sell Refrigerators in U.S. by August
Fisher & Paykel Appliances Holdings Ltd., New Zealand’s biggest home appliance maker, plans by August to start selling refrigerators in the U.S., where its sales have grown an average 34 percent the past two years.
Hungarian supplier Bakony Muvek to expand into white goods market
Hungary’s Bakony Muvek Rt, thus far primarily a supplier of car parts, plans to expand and become a supplier of white goods makers such as Electrolux, CEO Gabor Zentai announced Wednesday. The firm will spend HUF 2.5 billion on setting up new production sites in Veszprem and Hajdunanas, and plans…
Ben & Jerry’s Introduces Thermoacoustic Refrigeration
Wouldn’t it be cool if the music of the Grateful Dead could keep Cherry Garcia ice cream cold? This Earth Day, Ben & Jerry’s announces the development of a working thermoacoustic refrigeration prototype – an environmentally friendly, alternative refrigeration technology that chills out to sou…
Did the state pay too much to woo Whirlpool to Wroclaw?
In order to attract Whirlpool to invest in Poland, the government offered the company state aid amounting to almost half of the white-goods producer’s anticipated expenditure of EUR 132 million.