MacNair Research Announces New Freezer Lift

Canadian Inventor Ken MacNair is changing the way food is stored in chest freezers and chest refrigerators with a revolutionary invention called the MacNair Freezer Lift. The Freezer Lift fits inside a chest style freezer or refrigerator. The four major advantages include: food is easier to acces…

The Wackiest Ever Fridge Design

I see a lot of new appliances being launched and, all too often, they are the usual dull boxes with a new quick wash feature, some door bar, icemaker or other such slight enhancement. Over the twenty odd years I’ve been in this trade I’ve also seen some strange things, mostly from the Far East th…

Is You Toilet Cleaner Than Your Fridge?

According to a recent survey carried out by LEC eight out of ten homes in the UK your toilet is cleaner than the fridge or fridge freezer! In the poll more than 64% of the 1500 people polled said that they cleaned the fridge once a month with 22% confessing that they only did so twice a year.

First Whitegoods from Sharp

SHARP is moving into white goods in Europe. The company, better known over here for its consumer electronics products in particular LCD TVs, is trialling a £1,800 four-door fridge-freezer with a national retailer in the run up to Christmas.

Towards the magnetic fridge

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have discovered a material that gives a whole new complexion to the term ‘fridge magnet’. When this alloy is placed in a magnetic field, it gets colder. Karl Sandeman and his co-workers think that their material – a blend of cobalt, manganese, silicon an…

Viking Introduces All Refrigerator and All Freezer

Viking continues to expand its line of refrigeration with the introduction of the 30″ and 36″ wide all refrigerators and all freezers. The 30″ and 36″ wide all refrigerators offer many of the same high- performance features as other Viking refrigerators. They offer a convertible Meat Savor(TM)/Pr…

Steel woes: Fridge firms to increase prices

Prices of refrigerators are set to go up by about 5 per cent yet again, thanks to spiralling steel prices. Leading firms like LG, Samsung, Whirlpool and Godrej are all in the process of increasing refrigerator prices across the board.