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BSH Group temporarily suspends the production of several factories in the face of falling demand

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BSH, the consequences of coronavirus spread also are impacting. the corporate is experiencing a big drop by demand, affecting most product categories and markets. during this context, the BSH Group’s Board of Directors has decided to suspend production for an expected period of three weeks. Thus, BSH Hausgeräte GmbH will temporarily suspend its production operations in its factories in Europe, Turkey and North America. the corporate still has the power to deliver products to consumers.

Disruption of production at factories in Europe will begin on March 28, 2020. this might even have an impression on employees who aren’t directly linked to production or other functions and locations.

This measure is being coordinated and implemented with the respective workers’ representatives counting on the country and site and in accordance with the present legal framework. BSH will still implement appropriate measures to make sure the simplest protection for all employees against the danger of infection by the coronavirus.

The company will inform customers, suppliers and other companies about the planned procedures.

BSH will employ this temporary suspension of production, to be prepared to satisfy the demand of its clients on time and within the absolute best way when the markets recover

Live consciously, eat healthily, save time with BSH Home Appliances

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Home Connect is the Bosch and Siemens Appliance ecosystem that offers innovative solutions for a better daily life. This is the intention and mission of the German brand, that has recently presented new interesting products, such as the Cookit, the first all-in-one kitchen appliance with cooking function, offering a wide range of cooking options – from guided cooking and manual cooking to numerous automatic programs. Equipped with an XL pot, maximum temperatures up to 200 degrees and professional accessories, this connected appliance can be fed with ideas from Home Connect’s recipe pool – including various inspirations from the recipes supplier Kitchen Stories for step-by-step recooking.
Siemens also presents a significant innovation: the world’s first oven whose door can be opened by voice control. Siemens iQ800 Premium, instead, is a range of laundry care products, including connected washing machine and matching dryer featuring the latest technologies. For example, the washing machine transmitting its sensor information to the dryer via intelligentDry function. The dryer thus knows how much laundry has been washed and with what number of revolutions it was spun. Based on this information, it automatically selects the appropriate drying program. In addition to that, intelligentDry enables an exact display of the drying time.
To use its smart solutions in an easy way, BSH has given a completely new look & feel to the Home Connect App, which allows connected household appliances from different brands to be operated conveniently.
In addition to the trend themes of connectivity and voice control, artificial intelligence is also opening up new dimensions in the kitchen for the home appliance sector. Bosch presented the first Series 8 sensor oven from the accent line, which predicts when the cake or roast prepared according to an individual recipe will be ready

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BSH opens dishwasher factory in Poland

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The official opening in Łódź, Poland, took place on 10 September, just 10 months after the acquisition of the site, and now the household appliance manufacturer has a brand new facility taking up 57,000 square metres.
The total space offered by the BSH dishwasher factory, which was built by Panattoni Europe amounts to 57,000 square metres; making it one of the largest manufacturing facilities of household appliances in Europe.

The production hall is made up by 47,400 square metres and is said to feature industry 4.0 solutions. Apart from the manufacturing section, 9,500 square metres of the facility is dedicated to office and social space, according to a press release from Panattoni.

The new BSH dishwasher factory in Łódź will provide jobs to 1500 people who will be making 3 million appliances a year when running at full speed.

Bosch keeping quiet Bosch Silence Edition Appliances

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In a bid to shush the noise in your home, Bosch’s latest line dramatically lowers the decibels for the most common domestic annoyances.

“The world is getting louder all the time, making it all the more important to have a place of retreat and silence in the home,” noted Bosch in a press release, adding that “the focus here is on four world champions in quietness: the WAY287W5 washing machine, the WTY887W6 and the WTX87E40 dryers and the SMS68TW00E dishwasher”.

Even quieter than the Bosch Series 6 dishwasher is the Bosch SuperSilence Series 6 refrigerator with its 36 dB.

Then, the Series 8 washing machine clocks at 44 dB, followed by the Series 6 wall-mounted extractor hood with 54 dB and the Home Professional Heat Pump Dryer that has a 59 decibels rating.

According to Bosch, even a 10 dB difference in decibel levels is registered by humans as twice as loud so, if you want a very quiet home, you might just get lucky with their latest line.

The Bosch Silence Edition appliance is marked with a four-leaved clover symbol.

Attack on Thermomix: Bosch brings multifunction food processor

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Bosch has announced that it will launch a new multifunction food processor with smart home integration at the beginning of next year. This could soon be a serious competitor for the household favorite Thermomix.

The Thermomix has been one of the most popular home appliances for Germans for decades and is now enjoying cult status. In addition to mixing, beating, stirring and crushing, the latest generation of Vorwerk’s multifunction food processor can also be heated up to 160 degrees and perform all kinds of cooking and cooking operations. Other kitchen appliances make the all-rounder look old in the eyes of avid fans. Nevertheless, other home appliance manufacturers are constantly trying to catch up, and this time around, there could actually be a serious competitor to the Thermomix.
Bosch introduces new smart food processor

As part of the IFA, Bosch is presenting a device that should make the hearts of German hobby chefs beat faster. At the fair for household electronics, this year everything revolves around smart homes and appliances, and Bosch wants to bring this approach into German kitchens as well. The “Cookit” is like the Thermomix a multifunction food processor with integrated heat and cooking function. Particularly the connection with the Home Connect App, via which recipes from a large pool can be transferred directly to the device, whereby the Cookit can adjust optimally.
The Cookit from Bosch will be available in early 2020.

Bosch Asia-Pacific operations

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BSH Home Appliances Group on Tuesday announced top level-changes by elevating Gunjan Srivastava as head of Asia-Pacific operations.

Srivastava will be replaced by Neeraj Bahl, who joins as new India Managing Director and CEO of BSH Home Appliances, said a company statement.

Bahl joined BSH in July this year and prior to that he was working with Panasonic India where he was the Group Chief Sales for retail and online segment, it added.

In his new role, Srivastava will be based in Singapore and his mandate will encompass running BSH business across the Asia-Pacific region including India, South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

BSH Home Appliances, a European market leader, which entered India in 2010, operates with three brands — Bosch, Siemens and recently launched luxury brand Gaggenau

Gerhard Dambach to be the new CFO and member of the Board of Management of BSH Hausgeräte GmbH

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Gerhard Dambach, currently CEO of Robert Bosch Italy, will move to BSH as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) effective September 1, 2019

The 56-year-old holder of a Ph.D. in industrial engineering will succeed Johannes Närger, who retired as of June 30

MUNICH, Germany, Aug. 09, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Gerhard Dambach (56) will become the new CFO and Labor Relations Director of Europe’s leading home appliance manufacturer BSH Hausgeräte GmbH. He will be the Board of Management member responsible for finance and the North America region. The holder of a Ph.D. in industrial engineering has worked for the Bosch Group since 1993, holding various positions, including managerial positions, in finance and controlling. In his most recent post, he was the CEO of the Italian Bosch subsidiary with responsibility for the Italy and Greece regions. He is also the current President of the German-Italian Chamber of Commerce.

“Gerhard Dambach has many years of international experience within the Bosch Group and great expertise in finance and human resources. We are therefore very pleased to appoint him to the Board of Management of BSH,” said Prof. Dr. Stefan Asenkerschbaumer, Chairman of BSH’s Supervisory Board.

Management, Dambach will be responsible for finance and controlling and will serve as the Group’s Labor Relations Director, beginning on September 1, 2019. His remit will also include the BSH region of North America (United States and Canada). The 56-year-old father completed his study of industrial engineering at the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences in 1988. After that, he earned a Ph.D. there at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering.

“Being appointed to the Board of Management of BSH is both a challenge and a motivation for me. I am very much looking forward to the exciting task of helping to guide the destiny of this extraordinary company in a market that is undergoing radical changes,” Dambach said.

BSH breaks ground on new dryer and washing machine facility

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BSH breaks ground on its first China-based dryer and washing machine facility in Chuzhou on May 8, 2019. With an initial size of 60, 000 square meters and total investment of 1.69 billion Yuan, the facility is scheduled to go into production starting the first quarter of 2021 with a planned annual output of 3.6 million units.

It is a critical step for BSH to deliver its strategy of making Chuzhou its largest production site globally. The new facility comes after BSH’s first Chuzhou-based dishwasher company which was built in 2018 with a total investment of 0.7 billion Yuan and a planned annual output of 2 million units. The first-stage of the dishwasher facility has come on stream since 2018 and before that, the company’s Chuzhou-based refrigerator facility has seen its second-stage project go into operation. The string of investments signals BSH’s efforts in integrating its individual facilities into an industrial park in Chuzhou.

Compared to the company’s existing washing machine facility in Nanjing, the new facility is designed for the production of large-capacity washing machines, drying machines and dryer-washer combos. Plus, it will be established as an example of BSH’s Industry 4.0 strategy that features digitalization throughout the entire process from procurement, production all the way to end consumers.

It is learned that, the facility will be an important production site of the company worldwide after its operation and it will supply Chinese as well as global markets.