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(excerpt) According the notice, Electrolux Group—the parent company of Frigidaire—is recalling about 383,240 of their side-by-side fridges with slim ice buckets. The reason? There is an ice bucket assembly component that can easily break and as a result, cause either a choking or laceration hazard through the pieces being dispensed out of the ice bucket. (excerpt) As the recall notes, the models included were manufactured between 2015 and 2019 and were sold at nationwide retailers such as Lowe's, Home Depot and more. Dates that the items in question were sold fall between November 2015 and September 2019 and between the...

Striking factory workers in France have threatened to blow up their place of employment in the latest round of hostile industrial action stalling President Francois Hollande’s economic reforms. Employees at the Electrolux vacuum cleaner factory near the Belgian border in Revin lit a trail of wooden pallets on Tuesday that was intended to act as a fuse leading to a propane gas tank near the main building of the factory. The stunt, which drew French police and fire crews to the scene, was the latest in a wave of strike action that has threatened to derail President Hollande’s government. It...

Electrolux AB has agreed to pay $3.3 billion to acquire General Electric Co.'s appliances business, a move that would put the Swedish group head-to-head with Whirlpool Corp. at the top of the U.S. market for white goods. The deal is the largest ever by Electrolux and comes amid consolidation among makers of stoves, dishwashers and washing machines. Whirlpool agreed to pay more than $1 billion this summer to acquire a majority stake in Italian company Indesit Co. , a purchase that would roughly double Whirlpool's business in Europe. Electrolux shares surged 5.1% in Stockholm on news of the deal.

General Electric confirmed that it is considering the sale of its historic appliance division, part of its effort to focus on selling more complex and profitable industrial equipment. The confirmation came after the Swedish appliance maker Electrolux released a statement Thursday that it was in discussions to buy the business from GE, which is based in Fairfield, Connecticut. …

The layoffs have begun at the Electrolux plant here as the plant begins the process of closing down by this spring. United Autoworkers Local 442 Vice President Jerry Kloberdanz said the company posted the first stage of layoffs Jan. 7. Kloberdanz said there are about 500 people working at the plant. Electrolux, which makes washing machines and dryers, announced in 2009 that it would close the Webster City plant by the end of March.

Muslim workers have not agreed to proposed change to meal schedule during month-long fast ST. PAUL, Minn., July 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MN) today called on Swedish appliance manufacturer Electrolux to clarify a statement claiming that it will now offer legally-mandated religious accommodation to Muslim employees at its St. Cloud, Minn., plant during the upcoming Ramadan fast. Earlier this week, CAIR-MN requested accommodation because of a new policy that prohibits all food on the production floor, except for food required by those with medical conditions such as diabetes. Since that policy was...

Electrolux is laying off about 150 more workers at its Webster City laundry plant as the company moves some of its washer and dryer production to Mexico. The cuts announced Friday will be effective June 15. Company spokesman Tony Evans says the layoffs are temporary and that workers could be recalled if business conditions improve. Including the layoffs announced last week, about 500 Electrolux employees have lost their jobs since last November. Electrolux announced in 2006 that it would eliminate jobs in Webster City because production of its front-loading washing machines and companion dryers would move to Mexico. The company...

Dozens of Employees Walk Away From Electrolux NewsChannel 5 looked into whether the plant employed illegal immigrants. Sources told NewsChannel 5 more than 100 workers have been let go in the past couple of days. The employees said it was complete chaos. According to a NewsChannel 5 source, so many workers have been let go that it has been hard to do their jobs at the Electrolux plant. Second and Third shifts have been hit the hardest, and they believe the company is taking action to fix a problem that should not have happened in the first place. Diane Casey...

SPRINGFIELD, Tenn. - A hidden camera investigation conducted by NewsChannel 5 revealed Springfield's biggest employer may be the biggest offender when it comes to hiring undocumented immigrants. Electrolux is one of the largest manufacturing plants in Middle Tennessee. It employs thousands of workers. But a NewsChannel 5 investigation uncovered some disturbing facts about many of those employees. From city leaders to factory employees, several people said the same thing about Electrolux. They said illegal immigrants, not Americans, comprise a large portion of its workforce. Three years ago, the company came to Robertson County and local residents were excited about the...

I can't say I'm much of a gardener. It's all a bit too much like hard work, especially wasting hot summer days mowing the lawn into neat little lines - I'd much rather get the deckchair out and crack open a can. And now I can - and get the lawn cut with the Automower from Husqvarna. It's a gardener's dream, cutting grass automatically without being pushed or guided - even if there's a tree or two to negotiate. Use the perimiter wire to cordon off flower beds, young trees, ponds and swimming pools and automower does the rest. As...

Hans Straberg wants his new refrigerator to be a hit in America. "We think this is a great country," the Electrolux CEO said as he unveiled the $2,500, techno-sleek model at a Chicago trade show. To make its grand entrance even grander, the stainless steel, side-by-side refrigerator will arrive in New York City's harbor June 25 aboard the regal Queen Mary II. "Because we are a first-class brand, we want to enter into North America in a first-class way," said Straberg, whose company is based in Stockholm, "like we arrived in the '20s -- by boat." The refrigerator already has...

HOUSEKEEPING is hard work, so for companies that sell cleaning products, the mantra is ease of use. Just witness the recent popularity of the Swiffer, a mop with disposable wipes. Now a different kind of convenience has come to the ultimate cleaning tool, the vacuum cleaner. Two robotic models, the Roomba and the Karcher Robo Vacuum Cleaner, are available in the United States, and in May they will be joined by the Trilobite, an automatic vacuum that is already sold in Europe. While the idea of a vacuum that cleans while its owner does almost anything else may sound appealing,...

<p>GREENVILLE -- The first ripples of a looming economic tidal wave have begun to hit this community of 8,000 just 33 miles northeast of Grand Rapids.</p> <p>At the center of the coming storm is AB Electrolux, the Swedish-based conglomerate that will close its 2,700-employee Greenville refrigerator plant in 2005.</p>

Electrolux employees began arriving at the plant well before the scheduled announcement to learn the fate of 2,700 Greenville jobs. This morning at 7:30 those employees learned that Electrolux will close its Greenville plant. Last Friday was to be the day, but the deadline was postponed one week to allow talks to continue between the company, the city and the union. This morning at 7:00 a.m. Electrolux was scheduled to make the announcement; however, company officials delayed that announcement until 7:30 a.m. When that announcement finally did come, it wasn't what anyone in Greenville wanted to hear. That's just the...

In the end, the price tag was too high: $27,000 per worker a year. That is how much Electrolux workers in West Michigan would have had to give up to save their 2,700 jobs, records obtained by The Press show. The company this morning announced it will close the 127-year-old plant and split its 1.5 million refrigerator production between Anderson, S.C., where wages are half as much, and Mexico, where wages are a tenth of Greenville's. Electrolux AB executives today told workers the plant will close in 2005. The mountain of money Electrolux says it can save proved far too...

<p>EDISON, NJ -- Hundreds of workers filed out the Electrolux Home Products gates onto Route 27 under gray skies Thursday afternoon on their final day of work at the plant.</p> <p>About 800 workers lost their jobs over the past two days, as production ended at the air-conditioner factory. Since last year, 1,500 jobs have been cut, with 80 employees remaining until the plant closes later this year, the company said.</p>