Category: Electrolux

Electrolux is launching Ultra Silencer Green, the world’s first vacuum cleaner to be made from recycled plastic. With 55% of the cleaner body’s plastic made out recycled materials, the new Ultra Silencer Green is only available in black. The appliance, which is one of world’s quietest vacuum clea…

Electrolux CEO Hans Straberg is taking a hard line against bailouts, telling CNBC that failing companies should not receive any more help from governments around the world. “Let the businesses that are not fully functional, let the weaklings go in this, don’t prop them up,” he said. “I understand…

Electrolux said it will close its low-end refrigerator manufacturing facilities in Changsha in central China’s Hunan province. The move is in-line with the company’s repositioning as a vendor of high-end products, said Gunilla Nordstrom, the company’s newly appointed China president.

Electrolux said yesterday that it had swung to a loss of 474 million kronor (US$57 million) in the fourth quarter as the global financial turmoil drove up costs and forced it to impose temporary production shutdowns. The group, which in December announced it would lay off 3,000 staff worldwide, a…

The last remaining Electrolux workers at Spenymoor have learned their jobs are to go. Electrolux has announced it is closing its finished-goods warehouse and distribution centre in Spennymoor next summer with the loss of 23 jobs.

As a result of weakening demand for appliances in the two last weeks of November and in December, Electrolux will not reach its outlook for the full year of 2008. In light of the sharp market decline, Electrolux is reducing the number of employees by more than 3,000 in the fourth quarter of 2008 …

Electrolux has launched a review into the viability of its finished goods warehouse and distribution centre in Spennymoor, County Durham, which employs 23 people.

Over the next two years some 900,000 jobs could be lost in the industrial, manufacturing and construction sectors, Italy’s second biggest trade union CISL warned on Tuesday. In its Industry Report 2008, the CISL said that in the past two months there had been a steep increase in the number of ent…

The financial crisis has without a doubt affected the consumption levels of appliances. Many consumers are postponing their purchases or choosing less expensive products. And there’s no evidence that the weak market developments will turn around in the near future. In spite of this headwind, we a…

Electrolux’s Design Lab 2008 finalists have been announced and, as the promotional video (click the read more to view it) shows it has some very different ideas about appliances as usual. This year’s nine Design Lab finalists inventing and designing a variety of ambitious devices that might make …