Are you a Pokemon fan that also fancies themselves as a baker or chef? Well a new line of items is on the way, and they should be a perfect fit for your kitchen.
Pokemon Co. and kitchenware manufacturer Midea have teamed to create an entire line of Pokemon-themed kitchen products. You can find a selection of rice cookers, food heaters, toasters, electric teapots, and more. The lineup seems to be exclusive to Thailand for now
Romanian home appliances manufacturer Arctic, a unit of Turkey’s Arcelik, said that it has temporarily closed its factory in Gaesti, in Arges county, after 66 workers contracted the coronavirus infection.
Arctic aims to restart production of coolers on June 2, while the refrigerator lines are planned to resume operations on May 25, it said in a press release on Saturday.
In the meantime, the factory will go through an intense disinfection programme.
All 4,000 employees working in Gaesti have been sent into technical unemployment until production line resume activity.
Arctic confirmed the first coronavirus case at the factory on May 7. None of the infected Arctic employees had displayed any Covid-19 symptoms.
Arctic Gaesti, established in 1970, was acquired by Arcelik in 2002. The unit manufactures three main brands of refrigerators: Arctic for the domestic market and Beko and Grundig mainly for exports.
In October 2019, Arctic opened a washing machie factory in Ulmi, also in Dambovita county, with a production capacity of 2.2 million units per year.
Panasonic will shut down a large appliance factory outside Bangkok as early as this fall and consolidate production to a larger facility in Vietnam for greater efficiency.
The Thai plant will stop producing washing machines in September and refrigerators in October. The building itself will be closed by March 2021, and a neighboring research and development centered will be shuttered as well.
The roughly 800 employees currently working at the Bangkok plant will be let go, but will receive help finding a different position within the group.
With the move to Vietnam, Panasonic seeks to reduce costs through consolidating parts procurement. The Vietnam plant, located outside Hanoi, is the company’s largest manufacturing hub for refrigerators and washing machines in Southeast Asia and has excess capacity.
The move also reflects a new phase in Southeast Asia’s manufacturing. Starting in the 1970s, Japanese electronics makers shifted domestic manufacturing to Singapore and Malaysia as the yen climbed rapidly after switching to a floating exchange rate, hurting Japan’s price competitiveness.
Later, production shifted to countries like Thailand, as Singapore’s wages grew to be too expensive. Now companies are looking for even cheaper locations, while also hoping to tap the massive potential demand for refrigerators, washing machines and microwaves in the largely populated countries of Southeast Asia, such as Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam.
Panasonic had been producing large household appliances in Thailand since 1979.
Total output will not decrease as a result of the change.
Panasonic currently employs about 8,000 people in Vietnam. In addition to large appliances, local units manufacture such products as TVs, cordless telephones, card payment terminals and industrial devices.
Panasonic is in the midst of restructuring efforts, with the goal of cutting costs by about 100 billion yen ($930 million) by the fiscal year ending March 2022. It is considering further changes to its appliance production.
Panasonic Corp. on Monday reported a 20.6 percent fall in group net profit from a year earlier to ¥225.71 billion for the year that ended in March due to weak sales of home appliances and auto electronic parts, as well as the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on a range of its operations.
Panasonic expects demand to pick up in the latter half of the current business year after consumption was dented amid the virus spread, but it did not release an earnings projection.
For the 2019 business year, Panasonic’s group operating profit sagged 28.6 percent to ¥293.75 billion on group sales of ¥7.49 trillion, down 6.4 percent.
Chief Financial Officer Hirokazu Umeda said in a telephone conference that he expects sales to get fully back on track in the second half of this fiscal year, as many countries have started reopening their economies.
In April, its sales declined about 20 percent from a year earlier, with the largest drop of 50 percent in North America. But sales in China, a country that resumed economic activity ahead of others, was nearly flat for the month, he said.
The television division remained unprofitable in 2019, with a loss of more than ¥10 billion. Umeda said the company aims to turn the business into the black in the 2021 business year through a range of measures, including a possible business tie-up.
For 2019, the company attributed the poor results to falling demand for home appliances, particularly in Europe. It also acknowledged weak sales of automotive equipment in China.
The company suspended production lines at domestic and overseas factories, including in China, Malaysia and India, as the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted supply chains and prompted authorities in many countries to issue stay-at-home requests.
Massimo Garavaglia has assumed the role of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and General Manager of De’Longhi SpA on May 1, 2020. He succeeds Fabio de ‘Longhi, who remains in the company as Vice Chairman.
Fabio de ‘Longhi served as CEO for 15 years and will continue to play a significant role in the company. He will assist his successor in the transition phase and in the future will focus on employees and the corporate culture, innovations and M&A.
With Massimo Garavaglia, the De’Longhi Group will consistently continue the growth path it has embarked on in recent years and, at the same time, strengthen its management with an extremely experienced manager who will confidently meet the challenges and opportunities of a constantly changing market.
Whirlpool Factory in Yate has closed after a number of staff tested positive for Covid-19
The factory has now been closed for over a week, following the outbreak of coronavirus amongst staff at the site.
The Whirlpool Factory was closed after the first employee tested positive on May, 3. Subsequent positive test results for Covid-19 of staff members, have since been reported .
In a statement, a Whirlpool spokesman said:
“On May 3, one of our colleagues at our factory in Yate, South Gloucestershire tested positive for Covid-19.
“As a precautionary measure, we decided to temporarily close the facility and carry out a deep clean and a range of other steps.
“Since then a small number of other staff members have also tested positive with the virus.
“Our thoughts are with all these colleagues and their families at this time and we wish them all a swift recovery.
“The factory has remained closed since and will not be reopening this week.”
Whirlpool said it would continue to monitor the situation daily.
“The plant will only reopen and resume production when assessments show it is safe to do so.
“People’s safety is always our top priority, especially that of our dedicated colleagues. We have been closely following official advice on workplace practices and social distancing in relation to Covid-19 at the Yate plant and all our other facilities around the world.
“We have created additional steps at Yate including provision of personal protective equipment (PPE), hand sanitiser and handwashing facilities and mandatory wearing of face masks.
“Temperature checks would be carried out for every employee before they are permitted on site and alterations would be made to the factory layout, workstations, offices and communal areas to allow greater social distancing.
“Production has been reduced and there are fewer staff on site, with those that can working remotely.”
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Swedish home appliance maker Electrolux on Thursday warned it expected to make a significant second-quarter loss due to headwinds from the COVID-19 pandemic, after it beat earnings forecasts in the first three months of the year.
The rival of U.S. Whirlpool said first-quarter operating earnings were 122 million Swedish crowns ($12.42 million), up from a 53 million loss in the year-ago quarter, which was marred by large one-off costs, and above the 19 million profit seen in a Refinitiv analyst poll. ($1 = 9.8220 Swedish crowns)
Arcelik the white goods arm of Turkish industrial conglomerate Koc Holding said its consolidated net profit grew by 14.7% to 259.4 million lira ($36.5 million/33.6 million euro) in the first quarter of 2020.
Total revenue increased by 12.53% on the year to 7.77 billion lira in the January-March period, Arcelik said in an interim financial statement filed with the Istanbul bourse on Thursday.
The company’ gross profit from commercial operations rose by 10.3% year-on-year to 2.5 billion lira in the first quarter.
The cost of sales increased to 5.3 billion lira from 4.7 billion lira a year earlier.
Arcelik specialises in production, marketing, sales and after-sales customer service in the area of white goods, consumer electronics, small home appliances and kitchen accessories. The company has 21 production facilities in eight countries and 34 sales and marketing offices in 30 countries.
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