Appliance

Engineering Premium Refrigerator Interior Solutions and Custom Assemblies

French doors, door-in-door storage, exterior door windows… today’s premium refrigerators have moved beyond barely-dressed ice boxes and coolers. The same goes for refrigerator interiors, which often require custom assemblies and sub-assemblies with premium shelving. Plastic shelves and bins just won’t cut it for discerning consumers seeking high-end aesthetics, as well as increased functionality and durability.…
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Expediting OEM Product Time to Market: Key Considerations

Today's OEM is tasked with meeting increased consumer demand for crafted appliance component options, from brushed nickel and oil-rubbed bronze cabinet hardware to copper refrigerator and oven handles. But for every unique OEM product, there are many time-to-market variables in play. Each product enhancement impacts delivery time and budget. Can this feature be incorporated efficiently…
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Case Study: Turnkey Metalforming and Machining Helps Global Kitchen Appliance OEM Maximize Extrusion ROI

When it comes to delivering value to their discerning appliance customers, kitchen OEMs are tasked with providing metal designs that meet unique form and functional requirements. Manufacturing superior, quality metal handles can be challenging, especially if your base material is an aluminum extrusion.  Fortunately for one global appliance manufacturer, Mills Products breathed new life into…
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How to Make Stainless Steel Handles Out of Sheet Metal

Stainless steel handles are a desirable choice for appliance manufacturers since stainless steel is corrosion resistant, durable, easy to work with, and provides an attractive finish. If there is a downside to producing handles out of stainless steel, it is its relatively high materials cost. This makes manufacturing techniques that produce solid stainless steel products…
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The Virtues of Hydroforming for Appliance Handles Manufacturing

Today, tubular hydroforming is not only an accepted way to produce metal appliance handles, it is often the preferred method. There are several reasons this simply make sense. For one, there are the production considerations: Hydroforming uses less material, produces parts that are lighter weight, and still maintains the stiffness and strength yielded by other, more traditional ways…
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Key Manufacturing Considerations for Appliance Handle Design

As with any product development process, moving an appliance handle design from concept to production requires compromises. No matter how elegant the idea, if a handle design can't be manufactured at an acceptable cost, it's never going to see the showroom floor. Designers hate seeing their concepts altered as they make their way to the…
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