Category Archives: Manufacturing

LG JOINS HOME CONNECTIVITY ALLIANCE TO EXPAND THE FUTURE OF SMART HOME EXPERIENC

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LG Electronics (LG) has been named to the Board of Directors of the Home Connectivity Alliance (HCA), an organization dedicated to delivering better smart home experiences through open collaboration and innovation

Founded in 2022 and comprising a number of smart home solution manufacturers, the alliance aims to provide a safe, secure and interoperable connected home ecosystem. In addition to LG, its membership includes about 13 global brands including Samsung, Arçelik, Electrolux, Haier, GE Appliances, and Trane Technologies. The alliance seeks to enable seamless compatibility of diverse devices and services from different brands through developing and implementing guidelines for Cloud-to-Cloud (C2C) interoperability.

As a board member of the alliance, LG will soon bring its customers the convenience of being able to control and monitor other alliance members’ smart home solutions from using the LG ThinQ™ app.

Hisense announce new range of dishwashers

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The current main dishwashers project for the Gorenje and Hisense brands is the new DW50 dishwasher platform, which will completely replace the existing one. The new dishwashers will provide better results, functionality and a better user experience. Their main innovations include:
– automatic dosing – less worries and lower detergent consumption,
– UV technology, which ensures the removal of 99.9% of bacteria and viruses,
– drying with a fan, which in combination with automatic door opening ensures completely dry dishes,
– connectivity that enables remote use, monitoring and control,
– touch control and touch screen on all models,
– large capacity, as the DW50 can wash 16 complete sets of plates, glasses, and cutlery.

Other innovations depend on the selected models: additional spraying nozzles to help clean pans and dirtier dishes, an ionizer for fresh air without odors, a flexible third basket and a basket for accessories, and accessories for washing tall wine glasses, night program etc.
Our new dishwashers will be available to customers in the last quarter of 2022 and in the coming years, we hope to increase the dishwasher production capacities.

Whirlpool Cassinetta Plant

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Whirlpool Corp.’s assembly plant CASSINETTA, Italy has become a zero waste to landfill facility a year ahead of schedule, and it reduced its carbon emissions by 38 percent in just four years. The appliance manufacturer is aiming for carbon neutrality at all of its 54 sites around the world by 2030.

Other sustainable improvements at the plant, which assembling ovens, refrigerators, and microwaves, including cutting electricity during breaks, recycling plastic, reducing the use of polystyrene, and opting for electric power over fossil fuels. Employing nearly 3,000 people, the plant sits in close proximity to 80 percent of its suppliers, reducing the carbon footprint needed to transport components and raw materials to the plant

Amazon’s takeover bid on iRobot

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Amazon has put $ 1.7 billion on the table to buy the entirety of the shares of iRobot, the American company known worldwide for the Roomba series of robot vacuum cleaners, as reported by the Wall Street Journal . Although the company is the reference brand in the sector, it has probably suffered from the growing competition due to the success of the category and in recent months it has lost profitability closing its balance sheets in deficit.

The stock, which was worth 68 dollars at the beginning of 2022, had dropped to around 35 in mid-July and then climbed back to 50 dollars per share. Amazon offering $ 61 in cash provides a premium of around 20%. The total investment envisaged by Amazon: 1.7 billion, is slightly higher than the 2021 turnover: 1.56 billion. Amazon is also committed to clearing the company’s debt.

The market does not seem to expect a further offer. Amazon is committed to building an ecosystem of home appliances to make Alexa the ‘smart home’ hub competing with Google.

Electrolux and SolarizEgypt join forces to build solar power plants for sustainable development

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Electrolux, the world’s largest manufacturer and supplier of electrical appliances with well-known brands including Zanussi,

signs an agreement to develop a solar power plant at its factory with SolarizEgypt, the leading implementation and Construction Company in Egypt and the Middle East. The energy will be used to produce washing machines, refrigerators, Delta electric water heaters, and stoves. This deal supports the Egyptian government’s efforts to transition to clean energy and achieve long-term sustainable development

Whirlpool new manufacturing site in Bangladesh

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Whirlpool Corporation,and Transcom Group, one of the renowned business houses in Bangladesh, yesterday announced an agreement to set up a manufacturing plant in joint venture to make refrigerators in the country, The plant, spreading over approximately 85,000 square feet area, will manufacture a wide range of technologically advanced refrigerators for sale by Whirlpool and Transcom under their respective brands

Railway line from Trieste to Gorenje plant in Velenje

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Cosco Shipping established a special railway line for container transport from the port of Trieste to Gorenje industrial park in Velenje. «This new line is very important for improving the transport system for our factories in Velenje and for ensuring a stable supply chain – said Hisense Europe President Hanson Han -. As a global brand that is deeply rooted in the European market, Hisense has always set its main goal on providing high quality products and services to European customers. Localized R&D in Europe, as well as our production and sales have always been our long-term strategy to support this goal».

After Hisense acquired the Gorenje brand and its European factories in 2018, its products and services are deeply integrated with Gorenje products and services, which is lead to a further enhanced localization strategy. «We now transport products made here in Europe not only to European markets, but also to markets in Asia, America and other parts of the world, with the help of the Cosco Shipping network, thus meeting market demand and realizing our vision of development» – Hanson Han added.

Hisense manufactures its products from the segments of household appliances, consumer electronics, communications, information technology and others in 29 industrial parks in Asia, Europe, Africa and South America, and exports to more than 160 countries and regions around the world. China Cosco Shipping Group is one of the largest shipping companies in the world, with a fleet of more than 1,400 vessels and a total capacity of more than 112 million dead weight tons. Of this, the container fleet comprises 507 ships with a capacity of 3.04 million containers

Hisense new facility

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Construction works have started for Hisense new cooling factory in Valjevo. Hisense will invest over 40 million euros in the new Valjevo 3 factory, where state-of-the-art refrigerators of the Hisense, Gorenje, and Asko brands will be produced, mainly for export to demanding European markets. We plan to open the factory in February next year.
Gorenje has been successfully operating in Valjevo for 16 years and provides more than 1,600 jobs to the residents of Valjevo and the Kolubara district. The launch of the new factory will mean the employment of an additional 1,000 workers in the next three years.