Category: LG

Details are a bit sketchy at this point but, LG Electronics are to will voluntarily recall about 1 million washing machines in its home market to change door locks to help prevent child-safety accidents. LG will replace the locks on some models manufactured between August 2003 and October 2008 to…

LG Electronics and Viking Range Corporation in the United States have entered a strategic alliance to expand international sales, the appliance manufacturers have said in a joint statement.

LG Electronics lost its bid to try and keep “Energy Star” labels on roughly 40,000 of its refrigerators yesterday, when a federal judge refused to enjoin a government order requiring the company to remove the stickers. The US Department of Energy had given LG until January 20 to take off the labe…

LG Electronics secured the top position in the U.S. drum washer market in terms of sales in the third quarter of 2009. It was the 11 consecutive quarter for LG to rank first. The company said it has exceeded 1 million units in production on a monthly basis at its seven plants at home and abroad. …

The US Department of Energy has announced that, as of January 20, LG Electronics will be banned from using the Energy Star label on 20 of its refrigerator-freezer models. The agency, which has received criticism for failing to ensure the integrity of products bearing the Energy Star label, said t…

Press release from LG states that: LG Electronics USA today filed a complaint against the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. LG is asking the court to stop the DOE from unilateral measures against the company – inappropriately forcing LG to re…

Vacuum cleaner manufacturers seen to be coming up with progressively smarter, more efficient ways to automate cleaning the carpets. iRobot has been busy refining the Roomba and Dyson came up with their own take on it with the DC06. Now, LG’s enters the robotic vacuum cleaner fray with the new Rob…

Since it seems we’ve done the “mine’s bigger than yours” spin speed race to death the battle in who can have the largest load capacity in a front loading washing machine seems to be the new latest fad. Of course, as we’ve said in the past, often all is not as it may first appear, as explained in …

Reuters have reported that LG Electronics aims to boost its appliance sales in Europe by 10 percent annually in the coming years and become the global number one in refrigerators and washing machines by 2012. LG also said on today that it planned to increase its European market share in refrigera…

Reuters has reported that the U.S. International Trade Commission on Wednesday ordered an agency judge to take another look at a patent fight between Whirlpool and LG Electronics over refrigerator components. Whirlpool last year accused rival LG of infringing on five Whirlpool patents involving f…