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Haier Exhibits Complete Smart Home Ecosystem Solutions at the 128th Canton Fair

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The world’s leading home appliance brand and smart home ecosystem builder, Haier Smart Home (“Haier”, Shanghai: 600690), is introducing upgraded products and next-generation smart home solutions integrated with IoT to global customers at the 128th virtual Canton Fair that started on October 15.

Haier Exhibits Complete Smart Home Ecosystem Solutions at the 128th Canton Fair.

Haier’s virtual exhibition adopted VR, cloud computing, big data and AI technologies to bring an experience as close to visiting the actual fair booth as possible. Haier is hosting several virtual showrooms, presenting new products and services while giving global buyers opportunities to virtually interact and find out more.

Global visitors are invited to experience Haier’s smart home solutions and how they meet the users’ needs comprehensively in the areas of cooking, living, clothing and entertainment.

A highlight of Haier’s virtual exhibition is the food IoT ecosystem covering kitchen-related scenarios. The integration of appliances, grocery supply, logistics, training and more will provide users with a richer experience of smart cooking and dining. By working with Haier’s partners within its smart home ecosystem, the users’ daily needs of shopping, food storage, cooking, cleaning and safety can be met.

Haier will introduce two health and wellness scenarios involving clean air-conditioning and clean air, as well as a pleasant sleeping experience in smart bedrooms. In addition to the voice control features, Haier’s new range of air-conditioners will have a degerming function that sterilizes the appliance at the temperature of 56 degrees Celsius for 30 minutes, which saves the hassle of physically cleaning the air-conditioner.

Meanwhile, Haier also features smart solutions for laundry and at-home workout. The new washing and drying machines will be able to identify clothes, shoes and garments and choose appropriate cleaning programs automatically.

“Haier aims to promote smart, healthy, sustainable lifestyle for households around the world. Our integrated smart homes solutions not only make life easier for everyone, but more enjoyable and engaging as we connect the appliances and services across our smart home ecosystem,” said Qingfu Zhang, VP of Haier Overseas Electric Appliances Corp.

Despite the global downtrend due to the COVID-19 outbreak, Haier has continued to achieve growth in revenue across the global market. Overall, Haier’s overseas revenue reached 47 billion yuan (US$ 7.07 billion) in the first half of 2020, a 0.6 percent year-on-year increase and makes up 49 percent of the company’s total revenue.

In Europe, Haier’s revenue reached 6.7 billion yuan (US$ 997 million), Germany and Italy sales grew by 61 percent and 52 percent respectively, and the sales volume of refrigeration appliances ranked top five in France, Great Britain, Italy and Russia. In Asia, Haier Smart Home respectively achieved 16.3% revenue increase to 18 billion yuan (US$ 2.67 billion) and 7% increase in Southeast Asian market with 21 billion yuan (US$ 3.12 billion).

About Haier

Founded on April 1989, Haier Smart Home Co., Ltd. (former Qingdao Haier Co., Ltd., Shanghai: 600690) is the world’s leading home appliance maker. The Company boasts seven world-class brands including Haier, Casarte, Leader, GE Appliances-US, Fisher & Paykel-New Zealand, AQUA-Japan, and Candy-Italy.

According to Euromonitor International’s 2020 Global Major Appliances Brand Rankings, Haier’s retail sales volume of large household appliances ranked the first in the world for 11 consecutive years. Haier Smart Home is also a Fortune Global 500 company.

Haier Smart Home focuses on the continuous enhancement of the best user experience so as to provide consumers with smart home solutions, create a complete smart life experience, and offer design and function options customized for and by users.

For more information, visit: http://www.haier.net/en/

SOURCE Haier Smart Home

Electrolux presents vacuum cleaner made of 100% recycled and reused materials

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Electrolux takes a new important step on the journey towards circularity with a prototype for change. Together with Stena Recycling, Electrolux has developed a vacuum cleaner made of 100 percent recycled and reused materials. The plastic and components originate from consumers electronic products, such as used hairdryers, vacuum cleaners and computers. The project addresses some of today’s key recycling challenges while exploring circularity in household appliances.

More than 400 million metric tons of plastic are produced globally every year, but less than 12% of this comes from recycled materials. Therefore manufacturers have difficulty finding enough safe and consistently high-quality recycled material. As a pioneer, Electrolux was first in the industry in 2010 to raise awareness about the global shortage of recycled plastics through the Vac from the Sea project. The volume of products containing recycled material has since increased across the industry but remain at low levels.

To step up the pace, Electrolux is partnering with Stena Recycling in the collaboration Circular Initiative. The goal is to learn more about how to make the market for recycled plastics function as well as for virgin materials. The first concrete result is a visionary vacuum cleaner made of 100 percent recycled plastic and reused components from electronic consumer products. The prototype is developed to explore circularity in household appliances.

“We at Electrolux have a strong commitment to reduce our climate impact by 2030 and circularity is a key dimension of this. The partnership with Stena Recycling is one of the important initiatives we engage in to push ourselves and the industry forward through knowledge sharing and innovation. We want to support consumers in making sustainable choices, and to succeed we need a solid approach to circularity”, says Jonas Samuelson, CEO at Electrolux.

Henrik Sundström, Head of Sustainability at Electrolux, adds: “This project has highlighted many of the considerations we take into account as we seek to become more circular. From product design and material use to new business models, there are regulatory requirements as well as quality and safety questions that need to be addressed. We have to strike a good balance in increasing the amount of reused and recycled materials when making products that are optimized for further recycling at the end of life”.

The material from used products such as hair dryers, vacuum cleaners and computers originates from Nordic households. The focus on consumer products has enabled the project to study the lifespan of the recycled products and components to gain insights about consumer recycling behaviors and attitudes.

“The Swedish industry has all the right conditions to become a pioneer in circular flows. We have the know-how, we have the technically advanced processing plants needed, and we have companies willing to take the lead in circular production. I’m proud of what we have achieved together in the partnership with Electrolux. It’s a crucial step towards a future where circular materials will play a significant role in manufacturing. Through the Circular Initiative we provide our expertise when collaborating with our partners to create world leading circular solutions”, says Kristofer Sundsgård, CEO at Stena Recycling.

By 2030 all Electrolux product ranges will contain at least 50% recycled materials. On the journey towards circularity, the learnings from developing the prototype will provide important knowledge for Electrolux future innovation.

Stena Recycling collects discarded electronic consumer products and breaks them down into raw materials for new products or for energy recovery. Read more about the Circular Initiative here.

The prototype vacuum cleaner is an action within the Electrolux Better Living Program, a plan to enable better and more sustainable living for consumers around the world through 2030.

Beko’s first-of-its kind household product line eliminates more than 99% of bacteria and viruses

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Today saw Beko launch its new HygieneShield™ range at a global virtual press conference. A ground-breaking portfolio of household products created in response to emerging needs in the post-lockdown era.

The new portfolio includes seven appliances with in-built disinfection programmes and functions to disinfect packaged food and belongings to help people adjust to the ‘new normal’ at home. Developed as a result of in-depth global consumer research and with innovative new technology, the HygieneShield™ product line has the power to kill more than 99% of bacteria and viruses (including coronavirus), providing a level of reassurance unrivalled in the market place.

Beko research, across 31 countries revealed that one of the primary concerns is hygiene. Many of us are disinfecting supermarket purchases when we get home, worrying about handling mobile phones and keys, or not bringing coats into the house. People have increased the amount of cleaning and laundry in their homes, with some disinfecting bedding for the first time. 75% of people are cleaning the house more often, 64% are doing more laundry and 68% are paying more attention to the cleanliness of the packaging on purchased products.

The new HygieneShield™ range takes inspiration from nature and uses methods such as steam and heat to enable you to achieve excellent hygiene results at home. It will be available to buy from December 2020.

LG Electronics expected its best-ever third-quarter earnings,

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LG Electronics Inc. on Thursday expected its best-ever third-quarter earnings, as its home appliance and TV sales apparently got a boost from pent-up demand amid the pandemic-driven stay-at-home trend.

In its earnings guidance, the South Korean tech firm projected its operating profit at 959 billion won (US$831 million) for the July-September period, up 22.7 percent from a year earlier.

Its third-quarter operating income estimate beats the market consensus of 888.7 billion won in the data compiled by Yonhap Infomax, the financial arm of Yonhap News Agency, which surveyed 10 Korean brokerage houses in the past three weeks.

LG also expected its third-quarter sales to be 16.9 trillion won in the three-month period, up 7.8 percent from a year earlier. The figure is also above the market consensus of 16.4 trillion won.

Both sales and operating profit are the largest for any third quarter in its history.

LG did not break down performances of its respective business divisions, saying it will announce the detailed earnings later this month.

Analysts believe LG’s products highlighting health and hygiene features, such as air purifiers and steam dryers, led its home appliance sales amid the pandemic, while its TV sales also jumped due to the fast-growing stay-at-home economy and demand recovery in North America.

“As stay-at-home trends continue due to COVID-19, sales of its premium home appliances and TVs have been solid,” Lee Wang-jin, an analyst at eBest Investment & Securities, said.

“With reduced marketing costs, sales of 75-inch or larger TVs went very well.”

According to market researcher TrendForce, LG was the world’s second largest TV vendor in the third quarter after its TV shipments increased 6.7 percent on-year to 7.94 million units.

Compared with the second quarter, LG’s TV shipments soared 81.7 percent.

This photo provided by LG Electronics Inc. on Sept. 4, 2020, shows the company's OLED TV displayed at a store in Australia.

This photo provided by LG Electronics Inc. on Sept. 4, 2020, shows the company’s OLED TV displayed at a store in Australia.

LG’s struggling mobile business has been projected to narrow its operating losses in the third quarter with smartphone sales increasing.

The company expanded its budget smartphone lineup in major markets to overcome the long slump in the mobile business, which has been in the red since the second quarter of 2015.

“LG’s mobile business is expected to have reduced its operating loss with demand recovery in the United States and some benefits from the Huawei ban in the Latin American market,” Kim Rok-ho, an analyst at Hana Financial Investment, said.

LG’s vehicle component solutions business has been also tapped to post improved earnings in the third quarter as global automakers started to resume operations after lockdowns.

Shares in LG dived 2.91 percent to 93,300 won on the Seoul bourse, underperforming the broader KOSPI’s 0.21 percent increase despite its upbeat earnings guidance

HARVESTfresh ™ combined refrigerators by Beko .

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RCNA406E60LZXRN and RCNE560E61ZXN are in fact the innovative combined free-standing refrigerators (respectively 60 and 70 cm wide and the first 2 m and the second 192 cm high) proposed by the brand, expression of a snappy aesthetic and equipped with the best technologies for home storage.

In particular, the HARVESTfresh ™ technology , based on nature, imitates the solar day thus keeping vitamins A and C unchanged and for a long time: in fact, thanks to the presence of three efficient lights inside the vegetable bowl, the day-night cycle is followed. Through the three lights, which are activated according to the cycle of the day and turn off during the night (dark period), sunrise is imitated with blue, midday with green and sunset with red light, while the period darkness identifies the night. If the fridge door is opened during the dark period, one of the three lights will turn on, in order to allow greater visibility of the operation.

HARVESTfresh ™, after rigorous scientific tests conducted by independent laboratories and academic research, has received the INTERTEK certification, revealing the effectiveness of this solar cycle for the optimal preservation of vegetables, which thus keep intact the supply of vitamins .

The Beko combi refrigerators are also equipped with the Total No-Frost NeoFrost ™ Dual Cooling cooling system , a special technology that cools with two separate cooling systems, thus maintaining a high humidity level in the fridge and at the same time the dry freezer environment. , frozen and natural (no frost).

They are also characterized by the practical external Touch Display on the door, a device capable of displaying the temperatures set in the fresh food and freezer compartment, without having to open the door. In addition, versatility is at home in these combined units: thanks to the SmoothFit ™ flush-to-wall opening, the refrigerator can also be positioned near the walls or corners of the house, as the door remains conveniently open at 90 °.

Available in Dark Inox and Inox Look colors , the appliances are equipped with the ProSmart ™ Inverter compressor that allows you to cool faster, consume less and be four times quieter than normal refrigerator compressors. The interiors also ensure optimal space management and technologies to improve food storage, such as the freshness package which also includes the EverFresh + ® drawer in which temperature and humidity are controlled to reduce condensation and thus ensuring fresh fruit and vegetables up to 30 days. The compartment dedicated to meat, fish and dairy products is kept just above the freezing temperature to preserve their freshness.

The power of steam: the Gaggenau CombiVapore ovens

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A new generation of state-of-the-art appliances capable of revolutionizing the culinary habits of the private chef, while ensuring objects with an exclusive and elegant design: the CombiVapore ovens of the 400 and 200 series by Gaggenau .

A leading luxury brand in the production of professional household appliances, Gaggenau already introduced the steam oven in private kitchens 20 years ago , perfecting its creations year after year and allowing the use, in a single combination, of the of steam and hot air cooking, the convenience of automatic programs, precise temperature control and a state-of-the-art cleaning system, performances previously only possible in restaurant kitchens.

Since then, the Gaggenau CombiVapore ovens have made aesthetic and technological research their cardinal principles: the sculptural shapes and precious materials are combined with exceptional culinary performances in the ovens of the 200 and 400 series, made possible thanks to some important innovations, including the connection direct water and automatic cleaning system.

In fact, both lines include both models of combined steam ovens with tank, and with direct connection to the water system , capable of eliminating the need to load and unload the tank and thus offering high flexibility and ease of use, especially by mode. of preparation that require long times, such as cooking at low temperatures in sous-vide functionality, ensuring a constant supply of fresh water

Great attention is then given to maintenance, with the automatic cleaning system : by simply using a specially designed cartridge composed of bicarbonate and citric acid, maximum hygiene is ensured, while eliminating the need for manual oven cleaning.

For those looking for perfection in the execution of delicious recipes, Gaggenau introduces the temperature measurement probe in the two series of ovens , capable of detecting the internal temperature of the food with the utmost precision: it is in fact equipped with three sensors capable of continuously identify the remaining cooking time, guaranteeing professional results with every use.

In addition, to allow unlimited flexibility of use, the dimensions of the cavities of the CombiVapore ovens have been enlarged, reaching a capacity of 50 liters , so as to allow home chefs to prepare more dishes and in large quantities.

Demonstrating the constant commitment to creating aesthetically beautiful products, Gaggenau gives the 200 and 400 series a distinctive design: the full surface grill is elegantly hidden under the glass ceramic , thus guaranteeing the highest level of formal cleanliness and essentiality even inside the oven. enhanced by the presence of a striking LED lighting system that directs the light towards the back of the oven, making the dishes being cooked clearly visible and allowing greater control.

Finally, all Gaggenau steam combi ovens are equipped with Home Connect , which offers those who use them maximum freedom, thanks to the direct control of its functions via apps from smartphones and tablets.

Two decades of refinement and innovation have led us to the new 400 and 200 Series CombiVapore ovens. – declares Peter Goetz , CEO of Gaggenau – Our technological leadership has allowed us to create an appliance capable of offering perfect cooking results without limits and a minimal and modern aesthetic in the kitchen. We believe that having the ability to cook like a professional is a luxury that those who love being in the kitchen demand

Hisense Plans To Open Washing Machine Factory in Africa

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Hisense has made public its plans to open a washing machine manufacturing plant in South Africa by February 2021.

This will be the company’s second manufacturing plant in the continent, following the opening of a KES 2.2 Billion plant back in 2013 that is used to produce TVs and fridges. In 2019, Hisense added an additional production line that saw it start assembling smartphones in the Atlantis factory.

“Since launching washing machines in the country three years ago, Hisense has achieved a 12% market share in that segment,” the group said.

The new factory, which will also be in Atlantis, north of Cape Town in South Africa, will add an additional 200 jobs into the country’s economy. Hisense says that they currently employ more than 800 people and reach over 3000 people through their outreach programmes that train and uplift the wellbeing of people in communities around South Africa.

In 2019, Hisense managed to put out more than 530,000 TVs and 331,000 fridges from their factory in the country. “In 2019, one in four TVs or fridges sold in South Africa was a Hisense,” said the company.

Hisense has also made significant inroads in Africa, with products also being exported to 13 other African countries, including Kenya, South Africa, Namibia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Zambia, Botswana and Lesotho.