The logo of Samsung Electronics is seen at its store in Seoul, South Korea, October 11, 2017. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Saturday its new home appliance ...

How quickly things change. It was only 40 years ago that major household appliances were mass-produced in Western Europe, but there are already few factories left and most have been shut down or ...

PORCIA, Italy (Reuters) - The boxy white and grey factory of this rainy northern town makes fewer than half the washing machines it did when Italy joined the euro. It is one of the many symbols of ...

PORCIA, Italy, March 9 (Reuters) - The boxy white and grey factory of this rainy northern town makes fewer than half the washing machines it did when Italy joined the euro. It is one of the many ...

LG Electronics Inc. held a grand opening of its 1 million-square-foot washing machine factory in Clarksville on May 29. Here, an LG employee assembles a front-load washing machine. LG employs more ...

The logo of Samsung Electronics is seen at its store in Seoul, South Korea, October 11, 2017. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd plans to begin operating its new washing ...

WASHINGTON -- Washing machine prices are going to rise. Yet more Americans will be put to work as the country makes more of its own washing machines. And Whirlpool, with a major factory in the ...

NEWTON, Iowa (AP) -- The last washers and dryers were rolling off Maytag assembly lines here Thursday and the 550 workers who built them were preparing to leave the 2 million-square-foot factory for ...

It’s ironic that the closing of the factory occurs 100 years after the development of Fred Maytag’s first washing machine in Newton. It was in 1907 that he made and marketed first wooden-tub washing ...