Miele Italy will be exhibiting its newest commercial tumble dryers featuring its patented honeycomb drum at Expo Detergo in Milan. The newest dryer has an 800-L drum to provide high laundry throughput – the PT 7801 tumble dryer has a load capacity of 32 kg based on a load-to-volume ratio of 1:25….
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Royal Mail finds ‘washing machine man’
A postcard sent by a boy to his grandfather addressed only to “The Washing Machine Man, Ixworth” arrived at the right address two days later.
Detergent Free Washing Machines… Again
One century ago, 90% of China’s population used leaves to wash their clothes. Soap, called “foreign alkali,” was not common in daily life. Soap was unpopular due to its high price and people’s unfamiliarity with the product. Now, soap and detergent is a mainstay in China’s consumer industry. Bu…
DACOR Introduces Microwave In-A-Drawer
DACOR today introduced the Millennia® 30″ Microwave In-A-Drawer. With its arrival, the appliance that was formerly a challenge “” due to design limitations that forced conspicuous placement ““ now has become an asset, with an unconventional configuration that allows for installa…
All Change For Maytag Repairmen
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.
Freedom from ironing clothes
It might be a housewife’s fantasy or a trendy bachelor’s dream: a machine that will dry and iron your clothes was unveiled in Madrid, raising the prospect that the hated household chore could become a thing of the past. Ironing is an obsession in Spain, where housewives traditionally press every …
MFI SOLD FOR £1.00
MFI sells store chain in £1 deal MFI has closed 13 sites since the start of 2006 Furniture business MFI has agreed to sell its loss-making retail arm to a private equity group for £1.
LG Aim To Be Top In Refrigeration
Even the fast-rising prices of raw materials and the strong won of this year could not chip away at the stellar bottom line of LG Electronics, Korea’s biggest home appliance maker. LG is now the world’s third-largest household appliance producer by annual sales, trailing Whirlpool of the United S…
MFI Sale Close
Furniture business MFI is close to finalising the sale of its loss-making retail arm to a private equity group. Merchant Equity Partners (MEP) is poised to take control of the 200-store chain for a reported nominal fee of £1.
Entrepreneur drums up new business
A NEW design of washing machine created by a Suffolk-based businessman is set to hit the high streets.