Category: Appliance

European appliance makers Siemens and Electrolux AB are introducing new lines of premium products in the United States, joining the growing number of companies seeking to profit from a consumer shift to high-end goods.

Sharp, a leader in appliance products, today showcased key home appliance products at the Kitchen/Bath Industry Show 2004 that tie into an overall vision for the ultimate high-style and state-of-the-art home. Leveraging its leadership in microwave ovens and small appliances and expertise in quali…

With alliances seemingly out of the question, makers are streamlining their product lineups in search of earnings. Manufacturers of white goods have launched their spring sales offensives fully aware that a fortune does not await them.

Recently, with Japanese and Korean home appliance giants taking the lead, foreign brands took frequent moves in the Chinese washing machine market, staging an unexpected low price attacks.

Tokyo (JCNN) – Sharp has developed an apparatus for collecting plastics from dismantled disposed washing machine tanks.

THE market for refrigerators, which has been struggling with an average growth of around 5 per cent since 1999, is likely to get a boost in 2004-2005 with projected sales of 4.1 – 4.2 million units, from the expected 3.65 million units in 2003-2004, according to a forecast made by Francis Kanoi M…

TROUBLED chain Boxclever is to shut all its stores by the end of March. The closures are already under way.

The model in the photo reclines on a trendy, modern lawn chair, soaking up the sun, a Tablet PC at her side. She appears to be cooking dinner via a home computer network while catching some rays.

BANGKOK (Nikkei)–Toshiba Corp. (6502.TO) is set to produce 1 million units each of refrigerators and washing machines a year at its two factories in Thailand by 2005, up 25% each from such output in 2003, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reports in its Sunday edition.

TIRUCHIRAPALLI: Centre for Energy and Environment Science And Technology (CEESAT), a Tiruchirapalli-based research organisation, has developed a washing machine that runs on solar energy and consumes very little detergent and water.