Category: Washing Machine

South Korea has launched a dispute at the World Trade Organization to complain about U.S. punitive tariffs on South Korean washing machines, the WTO said on Thursday.

The Daily Mail has published an article that offers evidence that low temperature washes, the 30˚C cycle is singled out, can allow bacteria to breed in washing machines.  

Electrolux has halted all production in Egypt, where it has around 7,000 employees, due to increasing unrest in the country.

Specialist warranty company Domestic & General has been snapped up in a £750 million joint takeover by private equity firm CVC and its own management.

According to Reuters, private equity firm Advent International is considering refinancing debt in its British home appliance insurer Domestic & General and paying itself a dividend instead of selling the service plan business.

Smelly washing machines continue to cause problems in the US with fresh lawsuits being launched seemingly every few months but it is a far less common problem in Europe where front loading washing machines have been in use for some decades. More in the video report. 

A little off our usual beaten track but worthy of a mention given the rise of portable washing machines as, this Australian invention may actually be a far better solution for people that like to get out and about and need to clean clothes.

News has reached us that Ebac, the fridge freezer, dehumidifier and water cooler company plans to open a new washing machine production facility in County Durham and is set to create more than two hundred new jobs.

Every now and then in this industry someone does something that shakes the tree a little and presents something a little different but, what we don’t usually expect, is for radical washing machien design to come from the likes of Bauknecht who is a Whirlpool owned company and yet, it has.

NXP Solutions have demonstrated a concept smarter smart washing machine that utilises RFID technology for washing, dosing and fault diagnosis on washing machines.