Appliance Design - February 2008 - (Page 12) NEwS watch Mass., a provider of CADneutral modification solutions for extended product development, to offer CFdesign for SpaceClaim Professional 2007. This will allow for the creation of 3D models without the need to use computer-aided design. diffused light at night. The large-scale prototype lights up an area of nearly 90 cm2. Its transparency is rated at 55 percent, and as the product is developed this level is expected to increase to 75 percent. The acquisition will allow Middleby to expand in the fast casual dining, bakery-cafe and convenience-store industry segments. New Star makes the Star, Holman and Lang brands of commercial food service equipment. ELEctrOLUX ELEctrOLUX ShUttErS pLaNt. Electrolux has decidOSraM Opto transparent white OLED. DEpOSItS. arcELIK IN chINa. Arcelik, ed to discontinue production at its Spennymoor factory in the U.K. Production at the factory is expected to continue throughout 2008. Production will be phased out and some production will be moved to the Electrolux plant in Swidnica, Poland. The Spennymoor factory manufactures freestanding ranges and built-in ovens for the UK and Irish markets and has approximately 500 employees. OLED ShINES. OSRAM Opto Semiconductors of Santa Clara, Calif., has developed a transparent white OLED prototype, which under laboratory testing has achieved a luminous efficiency of more than 20 Im/W at a brightness of 1,000 cd/m2. This opens up possible applications such as those that are almost invisible by day, yet can provide a Electrolux has agreed to deposit $35 million over five years into a pension fund for U.S. workers laid off by the world’s secondbiggest home appliances maker in the U.S. The agreement with the U.S. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) affects workers laid of when Electrolux shut down a plant last year in Greenville, Mich. hEatING LINE LaUNchED. NORDYNE of St. Louis and WinWholesale of Dayton, Ohio, have launched the NuTone Heating and Cooling Products line of energy efficient products, including the iQ Drive air conditioning system. The products are available through Noland Co. branches and participating WinAir distributors. Noland is a wholly owned subsidiary of WinWholesale. Noland will no longer carry its current line of HVAC products and will immediately offer NuTone premium comfort products. Additionally, Noland will also carry NORDYNE-made Gibson heating and cooling products for new construction markets, and Mammoth products for their light commercial customers. Turkey’s largest producer of household appliances is planning to expand the capacity of its washing machine factory in China as it seeks to boost exports to the U.S. Arcelik started production at its China plant in December and registered the company under the name of BEKO Electrical Appliances Co. Ltd. The factory has an annual capacity of 200,000 units. After $2 million worth of planned investments, annual capacity is expected to increase to 1 million units. tOShIBa faSt charGE. Toshiba Corp. plans to start selling rechargeable batteries next year. The Super Charge ion Battery (SCIB) can be fully recharged in five minutes and has a lifespan of more than 10 years if completely run down and recharged once a day. Say It, SEt It. Sensory Inc., MIDDLEBy BUyS Star. Middleby Corp., Elgin, Ill., has agreed to acquire New Star Holdings International for $188 million in cash. For more Information Enter 124 12 applianceDESIGN AD01084AmRad.indd 1 Sunnyvale, Calif., manufacturer of speech technologies, has updated its FluentChip firmware. FluentChip v3.1 includes TimeSet, a technology that allows any RSC-4x enabled device with a clock to have its time set using spoken phrases. Sensory’s chips already enable millions of consumer electronics devices to talk and hear with speech synthesis, voice recognition, and other audio and interactive technologies. February 2008 11/30/07 9:37:11 AM www.applianceDESIGN.com http://www.AmericanRadionic.com http://www.AmericanRadionic.com http://www.AmericanRadionic.com http://www.appliancedesign.com
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