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By the beginning of the 1980s, it had around 1,600 employees, and had around 20% of the domestic refrigeration market in the United Kingdom. Its products had the Regis suffix, to denote where they were made, but by now had a northern site in Burnley, Lancashire. By the 1980s, the company was known as LEC Refrigeration plc, an LSE listed company.
1948 ad for Norge refrigerators. The Norge brand of appliances was originally manufactured by the Norge Appliance Company, which was once a division of BorgWarner and later a division of Fedders. The Norge name was acquired in 1979 by Magic Chef, which in turn was absorbed by Maytag in 1986. [1] Since 2006, Maytag is a part of Whirlpool ...
Commercial refrigerator and freezer units, which go by many other names, were in use for almost 40 years prior to the common home models. They used gas systems such as ammonia (R-717) or sulfur dioxide (R-764), which occasionally leaked, making them unsafe for home use.
Although the alliterative names Frigidaire or its antecedent Frigerator suggest an origin of the widely used English word fridge, it is simply a contraction of refrigerator, a word in use since 1611. [7] [8] [9] From 1919 to 1979, the company was owned by General Motors.
The Minsk Refrigerator Plant produced its first built-in refrigerators, the XM 4007, and a Class A energy efficiency model which reduced energy consumption up to 30%. 2009 saw the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Minsk Refrigerator Plant; in the same year, the plant launched a refrigerator line using equipment from the German company ...
Various Kenmore kitchen stoves and other appliances at a Sears Outlet store in 2020. Kenmore's upscale line of products is known as the Elite line. Kenmore also has a professional line of appliances called Kenmore Pro. As of January 2019, the Kenmore brand had over 50 products listed as top performers on the non-profit website Consumer Reports ...