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The Excellence in Design Award provides
professional acknowledgement within design and manufacturing in today’s
global appliance marketplace.
Join
the competition that brings out the best examples of thought leadership,
creativity, and technical savvy solutions within our industry.
Submit your entry by February 15, 2008. Read more...
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Mower Cuts Grass, Gas and Pollution (2/6)
According to the U.S. EPA, a traditional gas-powered lawn mower produces as much air pollution as 43 new cars each being driven 12,000 miles -- 516,000 miles worth of vehicle emissions, which contributes to air pollution and climate change. Before, consumers choosing cordless or electric mowers would have to sacrifice power and performance. Now, there is an alternative to gas, the PowerMower from Remington, the first and only cordless lawn mower with a corded option.
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Sony and Battery Recycling Group Expand Efforts (2/5)
The Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation (RBRC), a non-profit public
service organization dedicated to recycling rechargeable batteries and cell
phones, and Sony Electronics Inc. have partnered on an initiative aimed at
increasing consumer participation in RBRC's recycling program, Call2Recycle. Last year, the program collected some 6.3 million pounds of rechargeable batteries
recycled in the U.S. and
Canada. Read more...
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Major Appliance Demand to Exceed 480 Million Units (1/29)
World demand for major household appliances (white goods) is projected to increase 3.1 percent annually through 2011, exceeding 480 million units.
Demand in the Asia/Pacific region, in particular China, will continue to benefit from above average urban population growth and healthy gains in the number of households. India will have the fastest growth of any nation.
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BSH Home Appliances Records Double-Digit Growth (1/28)
As the only manufacturer in the United States with four premium brands – Bosch, Siemens, Thermador and Gaggenau – BSH Home Appliances Corporation, North America saw double-digit sales growth in 2007. In fact, the leading appliance manufacturer with U.S. operations in Huntington Beach, Calif., has shown record growth since 2003 and has consistently increased its sales performance on an annual basis. The company says much of this success can be attributed to the 37 new product's introduced in the last few years, including built-in wall ovens, induction cooking technology, dishwashers and front-loading laundry.
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SPE's ANTEC Conference to Co-Locate with SPI's NPE2009 (2/11)
In a plastics industry first, the 2009 edition of ANTEC, an annual technical conference for the plastic industry, will take place during NPE2009. The combined event will take place at Chicago's McCormick Place on June 22-26, 2009.
The announcement was made jointly today by the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE), presenter of the annual ANTEC conference, and The Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc. (SPI), which organizes the triennial NPE shows.
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Service Provider Home Networks to Reach 71 Million Households (1/23)
Service providers are rapidly increasing their deployments of residential gateways for connected home applications, according to "Networks in the Home: The Global Service Provider Play." This new report from Parks Associates forecasts the total number of households worldwide with service provider-deployed residential gateway solutions will grow to more than 70 million by year-end 2012.
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COVER STORY
Controls: Taking Charge
Capacitive touch-control technologies are considered by many to be the workhorses of the electronics industry, having been used in applications such as cash registers, kiosks, cooking appliances, medical equipment, consumer electronics, and more. The robustness and versatility of capacitive-based touch control has been under development for more than 80 years, and its uses continue to grow.
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Cooking: Improved Induction
The old saying that “a watched pot
never boils” means that when impatiently waiting for something to
happen, it seems to take forever – but that was before induction
cooktops were invented. Now one can fill a pot of water, place it on an
induction cooktop, turn on the energy and watch the water come to a
boil within 30 seconds. Induction cooking uses electromagnetic energy
to heat cookware made of magnetic material (steel, iron, nickel or
various alloys). When the unit is turned on, the coils produce a high
frequency alternating magnetic field that ultimately flows through the
cookware. Molecules in the cookware move rapidly back and forth,
causing the cookware to become hot and cook the food. Find out more.
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Cords: Stopping Strain
 Whether the appliance is a vacuum cleaner or a floor scrubber, hair dryer or curling iron, microwave or refrigerator, they all have at least one thing in common, the power cord. And, where there is a power cord, there usually is a need to protect it. Strain reliefs can do just that.
Find out more.
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Joining: Through Thick and Thin
Self-pierce riveting (SPR) has been
around for decades, so most are probably familiar with its basic
premise. SPR is a cold joining process used to fasten two or more
sheets of material by driving an engineered rivet through the top
sheet(s) and upsetting the rivet, under the influence of a die, into
the bottom sheet without breaking through it.
What’s new is that, with a properly engineered system, SPR can produce
high performance joints in diverse and thinner materials that are
often used
in today’s applications. Read more.
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