Appliance Parts
There are many different brand names when it comes to appliance parts, but actually there are only four main manufacturers in the US, for instance, Whirlpool owns Kitchen aid, Roper, and Estate. Recently Whirlpool acquired Maytag which assumes many names like Magic Chef, Amana, Jenn Air, Norge, Admiral, Crosley, Norge and a few more.
GE or General Electric carries only a couple names such as Hotpoint and RCA.
Frigidaire has the following names Gibson, Kelvinator, Tappan and Westinghouse but actually Electrolux now owns Frigidaire, I still have trouble with that one.
Sears Kenmore is probably the most confusing one for most consumers. When a customer purchases a Sears Appliance they think they are getting an appliance built by Sears corporation when in fact Sears just has the maker slap the Sears name onto the appliance. Whirlpool makes the majority of appliances for Sears but in recent years Ge, Maytag, and Frigidaire have been grabbing a bigger market share of the appliance building.
For the most part the appliance parts are made by the manufacturers such as Whirlpool, Ge, Maytag and Frigidaire so far the majority of the parts are made right here in the good old USA, I keep an eye on parts packaging when they come in just to see where our parts are being made. Some of the parts are being outsourced out to other countries, I tend to note that more with Ge appliance parts but others do it as well but it still isn't a whole lot.
If and when I start to see our parts coming in saying made in China I will surely be alerting everyone to this if it happens, nothing against China but enough is enough.
I'm personally glad that Whirlpool acquired Maytag, from what I understand a China based company was interested in bidding or may have bidded on Maytag which could have been disastrous for our American customers if they were acquired by a foreign company.
At least all is well now and Whirlpool seems to be getting Maytag back on track or at least it appears so.
I'll update this post as new information arises.
Don't forget to visit us at www.myapplianceparts.com
GE or General Electric carries only a couple names such as Hotpoint and RCA.
Frigidaire has the following names Gibson, Kelvinator, Tappan and Westinghouse but actually Electrolux now owns Frigidaire, I still have trouble with that one.
Sears Kenmore is probably the most confusing one for most consumers. When a customer purchases a Sears Appliance they think they are getting an appliance built by Sears corporation when in fact Sears just has the maker slap the Sears name onto the appliance. Whirlpool makes the majority of appliances for Sears but in recent years Ge, Maytag, and Frigidaire have been grabbing a bigger market share of the appliance building.
For the most part the appliance parts are made by the manufacturers such as Whirlpool, Ge, Maytag and Frigidaire so far the majority of the parts are made right here in the good old USA, I keep an eye on parts packaging when they come in just to see where our parts are being made. Some of the parts are being outsourced out to other countries, I tend to note that more with Ge appliance parts but others do it as well but it still isn't a whole lot.
If and when I start to see our parts coming in saying made in China I will surely be alerting everyone to this if it happens, nothing against China but enough is enough.
I'm personally glad that Whirlpool acquired Maytag, from what I understand a China based company was interested in bidding or may have bidded on Maytag which could have been disastrous for our American customers if they were acquired by a foreign company.
At least all is well now and Whirlpool seems to be getting Maytag back on track or at least it appears so.
I'll update this post as new information arises.
Don't forget to visit us at www.myapplianceparts.com
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