Category: Whirlpool

According to reports today Whirlpool spent $200,000 in the fourth quarter to lobby the US federal government on appliance energy tax credits and other issues, according to a disclosure report. That’s down 13 percent from the $230,000 that appliance maker spent in the year-ago period, and 38 perce…

Whirlpool have won $1.78 million in patent- infringement damages from Korea’s LG Electronics Inc. in a continuing dispute over refrigerator technology. After a seven-day trial in federal court in Wilmington, Delaware, the jury of five women and three men also decided today that Whirlpool didn’t i…

The International Trade Commission (ITC) has dismissed the last of Whirlpool’s patent-infringement charges against LG in a two-year-old case involving ice-compartment technology. Whirlpool accused LG of violating its patents for ice storage bins within the doors of side-by-side and bottom-mount r…

Global manufacturer Whirlpool has seen a backlash of opinion from online publishers over its decision to close the Evansville refrigerator plant and move the jobs to Mexico to take advantage of the much lower labour cost as well as weaker labour and environmental laws. According to reports this w…

Whirlpool quarterly profit more than doubled on cost cuts and improving sales in North America, prompting the world’s biggest appliance maker to forecast 2010 earnings above Wall Street estimates. The results came a day after data showed U.S. manufacturing expanded in January at its fastest pace …

Carlotta Freeman has been awarded a $1- million judgment in her case against appliance manufacturer Whirlpool. Freeman, a Black woman who was employed by the company, claimed her complaints about racial and sexual harassment were ignored by Whirlpool management that eventually caused the situatio…

Whirlpool has won a renewed chance to argue that imported refrigerators made by LG Electronics Inc. should be banned from the U.S. market. The U.S. International Trade Commission in Washington yesterday said it would review an administrative law judge’s findings that LG refrigerators don’t infrin…

Whirlpool Europe has linked up with Camfridge, a Cambridge University spin-off, for a project to deliver a domestic refrigerator based on “magnetic refrigeration” technology. The project has won funding from the Carbon Trust aims at validating a revolutionary technology that might change the wa…

Whirlpool Corporation (NYSE: WHR) continues its legacy of innovation leadership with the announcement that it will produce one million Smart Energy clothes dryers by the end of 2011 as part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Smart Grid Investment Grant program. These U.S. manufactured appli…

Chinese home appliance retailer Suning Appliance Co. have linked strategic cooperative agreements with Whirlpool. The two parties plan to seek accumulative sales of CNY 20 billion within five years, including CNY 5.3 billion from Whirlpool washing machines, CNY 4.75 billion from refrigerators, CN…