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Hestan Recognized Among the Best of the Best in Global Design Competition

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Hestan—the brand celebrated for bringing the award-winning innovations of its commercial appliances to the home kitchen—is proud to announce its latest accolade, a GOOD DESIGN award for the 36” 5-Burner Dual Fuel Range. Presented by the Chicago Athenaeum and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, the GOOD DESIGN awards honor the leading and best contemporary designs manufactured in Europe, Asia, Africa, and North and South America. The Hestan 36” 5-Burner Dual Fuel Range was selected by a jury of international specialists with wide design experience, and recognized among 900 of the best new products and graphic designs from over 47 countries.

“This award honors not only our products and organization, but the individuals whose creativity and innovation has shaped the innovative look that is distinctly Hestan design. We are extremely grateful to them for this recognition”
“The GOOD DESIGN awards program is one of the most prestigious and historic design competitions in the world,” said Basil Larkin, vice president of sales for Hestan Commercial Corporation. “To be selected among the best and most well-known global manufacturers, as a brand that is still new to the indoor kitchen appliances segment, means a great deal to Hestan. We will continue to hold our product designs to this caliber in the years to come.”

Since its initial launch in 2018, Hestan’s indoor product line has received three TWICE VIP awards for the Pro Style Bottom Mount Refrigerator, 48” Dual Fuel Range and 24” Wine Cellar. Hestan has also received recognition from Architectural Digest, which named Hestan’s Indoor Living Suite and 48” Dual Fuel Range among the “Best New Products at KBIS,” as well as from Good Housekeeping, which awarded Hestan’s concept Smart Gas Rangetop as an Editor’s Pick at the 2020 Kitchen and Bath Industry Show (KBIS). The GOOD DESIGN award for the 36” Dual Fuel Range is the sixth industry honor the indoor line has achieved in just under two years in the market, and the third award Hestan has secured this year. The award-winning luxury range’s design team included Ray Nilssen, Jay Sloyer, Kamran Kohan, Chris Moy and Angelo Cortes.

“This award honors not only our products and organization, but the individuals whose creativity and innovation has shaped the innovative look that is distinctly Hestan design. We are extremely grateful to them for this recognition,” said Eric Deng, president of Hestan Commercial Corporation.

For more information about Hestan, please visit https://home.hestan.com/.

ABOUT HESTAN: Hestan is the award-winning culinary brand renowned for creating the market’s most advanced, powerful and versatile commercial kitchen equipment, premium outdoor grills and purpose-built indoor appliances. Founded by culinary icons Stanley Cheng and Eric Deng, and backed by some of the industry’s most inventive and forward-thinking chefs and engineers, Hestan is forging new ground with visionary technologies and products. Headquartered in the heart of Southern California in an over 190,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art manufacturing facility that includes a showroom, test kitchen and innovation lab, Hestan is led by a collaborative team of industry mavericks who bring together over 200 years of combined experience to create thoughtfully designed products that respond intelligently to the needs of the end user. Equipping the kitchens of acclaimed restaurateurs and Michelin-starred chefs such as Thomas Keller, as well as the legendary Culinary Institute of America, Hestan is setting the pace of the culinary evolution with products that provide the confidence and comfort of the highest-quality materials and top craftsmanship. For more information, visit https://home.hestan.com/.

Springfield Electrolux closed through Sunday after worker tests positive for coronavirus, spokeswoman says

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Electrolux has shut down its factory in Springfield after an employee was diagnosed with COVID-19, according to a company spokesperson.

https://eu.tennessean.com/story/news/local/robertson/2020/04/30/springfield-electrolux-closed-through-sunday-after-worker-tests-positive-coronavirus-spokeswoman-say/3062015001/

TECNOGAS

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TECNOGAS will be back up and running on May 4th.

Historic Italian cooking appliances specialist, born in 1952 from the inspiration of the Contini brothers. Based in Gualtieri, a small village in the Italian countryside jealously fosters the founders’ values of tight connection with the farmland, unbiased design approach, and good materials advantage.

http://www.tecnogas.it/en/

 

Hisense will cut about 2,200 jobs in Europe by the end of the year

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Chinese household appliances maker Hisense will cut about 2,200 jobs in Europe by the end of the year because of a coronavirus-related demand slump, Slovenia-based Hisense Europe said on Thursday.

The company said that March orders were down by a third year on year, by almost two thirds in April and are expected to be down by a quarter in May and June.

Hisense has 9,309 employees in Europe, 5,580 of whom work in Slovenia, with the rest mainly in Serbia and the Czech Republic, the company told Reuters.

It said the number of jobs in Slovenia will be reduced by about 1,000 while roughly 1,200 jobs will be cut in other countries.

Electrolux: 23% of the total products sold in 2019 were the most energy and water-efficient ones

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Electrolux has released its 2019 Sustainability Report (www.electroluxgroup.com/sustainabilityreports/2019), where the company reports the most important actions undertook and results obtained in this important area. Last year, the Group reached a 75% reduction in CO2 emissions from its operations since 2005. To reflect Electrolux new commitment to become climate neutral across the supply chain by 2050, and its increasingly holistic approach to sustainability, the overall sustainability framework has also been updated.
The Report also underlines that last year the most energy and water-efficient products accounted for 23% of the total products sold.
Moreover, at the 2019 UN General’s Climate Action Summit, Electrolux joined a global movement of business leaders working towards limiting the global temperature rise to 1.5°C. Through a further UN initiative, Cool Coalition, Electrolux has committed to remove global warming gases from products by 2023 which also ties into the overall framework.
To celebrate the Electrolux centenary in 2019, The Better Living Program (BLP) was launched. This is an action plan to enable better and more sustainable living for consumers around the world through 2030. The BLP is now also fully integrated in the overall sustainability framework.
Other key initiatives and achievements include 20 times more recycled plastic used in products and 44% less energy used per manufactured product.
But sustainability is not only focused on environment. There are other initiatives that show the social responsibility of the Group, starting from the 30,000 children that have learned about sustainable eating through Electrolux Food Foundation’s Food Heroes program.
Moreover, a green bond framework was introduced as a new way to fund Electrolux sustainability initiatives. Proceeds will be used to finance, or refinance projects covered by the environmental areas of the Electrolux sustainability framework, For the Better.

Four iF Products Design for Miele domestic and commercial products

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Four iF Product Design Awards has been assigned to Miele’s products, including which of the commercial division of the company with two lab washer series and the compact washing machines from the Little Giants series. The prize-winning products also include the elegant Aura 3.0 cooker hood for domestic kitchens.
Every year, the awards are handed out by the world’s oldest independent design institution, the iF International Forum Design GmbH in Hanover. In this case, a 78-strong international jury of experts selected from 7298 submissions from 56 countries.
When it comes to commercial washing machines from the Performance Plus range, it is obvious that these are not domestic machines simply by looking at the high-quality stainless-steel fascia. The underlying technology was designed to cater for much higher levels of strain. This is accompanied by extremely short cycles, high-level efficiency and choice materials for excellent product longevity. These models are available for load capacities of 6, 7 or 8 kg and are operated using a touch display with texts in up to 32 languages.
Miele’s new large-capacity lab washers from the PLW 86 series reduce the burden of work, thanks to an intuitive touch display and three-colour lighting in the chamber, allowing the machine status to be easily visible from a distance through the all-glass door. Innovative components, such as a variable-speed circulation pump which reduces consumption and the new EasyLoad system ensuring particularly fast and convenient loading, are instrumental in achieving this.
Slim on the outside, flexible on the inside just about sums up the free-standing lab washers from the SlimLine series, offering ample space in the chamber in a product which is only 65 cm wide. Optimum use of the chamber is facilitated by up to three sets of telescopic runners which can be used at four different positions. This creates additional loading flexibility and allows the cleaning of large-volume laboratory vessels with a capacity of up to 50 l.
The design of Miele’s Aura 3.0 island cooker hood, finally, is an elegant and efficient product. Its brilliant white canopy with a diameter of 70 cm is reminiscent of a flat cupola. Virtually invisible controls and a power supply via the delicate wires suspending the canopy unit round off its elegant appeal. Dimmable LED lighting (A-rated energy efficiency) and automatic Con@ctivity were further reasons for granting the iF Product Design Award.

Hisense Gorenje extends production shutdown

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Hisense Gorenje extends production shutdown
Hisense Gorenje says that it is extending its production shutdown at all its factories in Europe for another week.
The management of Hisense Gorenje has decided, in the light of the current situation due to the coronavirus epidemic across Europe, to extend the shutdown of all its European factories for another week, from 6 April to 10 April 2020.

Production at the Velenje factories will resume on Tuesday, 14 April 2020, except for the Laundry production, which will start again on Friday, 10 April. The Mora plant in the Czech Republic will also start work on Tuesday, April 14. The factory in Valjevo, Serbia, will start operating on Monday, April 13, 2020.