Category: Maytag

Whirlpool have issued the biggest U.S. dishwasher recall in three years to fix 1.7 million of its Maytag models with a fire hazard, the Consumer Product Safety Commission said. The dishwashers have a faulty heating element that can short-circuit and ignite, the agency said in a statement. Consume…

Maytag has launched an American-style fridge freezer as part of its new refrigeration range. The Maytag MS20 CIII4 stainless steel side-by-side fridge freezer will cost around £2,000 and shops are currently taking deliveries.

Last month, blogger Heather Armstrong, who writes for the immensely popular parenting blog Dooce in the US, gave the appliance giant Maytag a public relations scare after she asked her million or so followers to boycott the brand after her recently purchased $1,300 washing machine stopped working…

Nationwide Marketing Group appliance dealers in the US this week got the first glimpse of Maytag’s new Fresh Hold Option with Dynamic Venting Technology, a feature that helps prevent clothes that sit in a damp front-load washing machine from smelling like mildew. “This feature will force all othe…

Whirlpool Corporation has added additional brands of refrigerator to its recall due to an electrical failure in the relay, the component that turns on the refrigerator’s compressor. This can cause overheating and pose a serious fire hazard, we’ve seen footage of one actually on fire!

ERT Weekly has reported that Maytag’s business is to be integrated with that of Whirlpool in the UK leading to the closure of its Redhill, Surrey, base. During next month, all sales, marketing and after-sales service functions for Maytag will move to Whirlpool’s UK headquarters in Croydon while i…

Maytag Lights go out in Newton. Maytag is set to close its doors for the final time on 26th October 2007. The factory is left with some 500 workers, who have lost their jobs.Maytag has been a part of Newton for many years, although these days more famous or infamous for the cost £48 Million of t…

From the Detroit Free Press: “The federal government announced a recall of 250,000 Maytag-brand front loading washing machines, due to the possibility of water leaking onto electrical connections and posing a fire hazard. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a release that also said…

Maytag Corp. is recalling about 201,540 dishwashers sold in Canada between July 1997 and June 2001 because of a fault that could lead to a fire. The appliances are among about 2.3 million dishwashers being recalled across North America.

About one thousand repairmen employed by Maytag before the appliance maker was bought by Whirlpool earlier this year are expected to begin working for a different repair company next year.