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Read This Before You Buy Your Next Appliance
Purchasing a major appliance is a major decision. To ensure satisfactory return on your investment, comparison shop before each appliance purchase. The following pointers from The Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers can help ensure your satisfaction with appliance purchases: • Ask your dealer for specification sheets from several manufacturers who build the types of appliances [...]
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- Is Your Air Cleaner Cleaning the Air?
May 25th, 2009The Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers (AHAM) is the trade association representing manufacturers of major, portable, and floor care appliances and suppliers to the industry. Included in AHAM membership are manufacturers of portable room air cleaners. AHAM is a standards development organization for numerous technical, performance based standards for home appliances. AHAM also administers third [...]
- Comsumer Rebate Program for Appliances
April 14th, 2009The US stimulus bill recently signed into law by US President Barack Obama includes a $300 million provision to fund the Energy Efficient Appliance Rebate Program. This program will be administered through the 50 US states and will provide financial incentive to encourage consumer spending and target it to energy savings through consumer rebates for [...]
- Universal Measurements for Washing Machines
April 6th, 2009AHAM, the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers, is developing a voluntary, uniform industry test procedure for product manufacturers to determine clothes washer drum volume which is expected to be finalized by the end of 2009. This new procedure will result in standardized volume measurements that can be applied across all washers—traditional and high-efficiency top as [...]
- Five Appliances That Can Help You Save Money
April 1st, 2009Many Americans are finding themselves looking for ways to save money. The Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers (AHAM) has come up with a list of five appliances that may already be in your home, which can help you save money. Coffeemakers —Save on pricy coffeehouse blends by brewing your morning cup at home. Resisting a [...]
- Appliance Sales are Down
March 24th, 2008Here’s some bad news for appliance dealers (if they haven’t already noticed the effect in their own markets) Twice.com reports that according to AHAM (Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers), January shipments of major appliances fell 17 percent to 3.9 million units compared with the 4.7 million major appliances sold during the year-ago period. Taking the biggest hit was [...]
- Installing and Using Your Clothes Dryer Safely
March 14th, 2008Whether you are installing a new dryer, relocating an old one, or just looking to remind yourself of some basic household safety guidelines, you can clickon our link to The Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers(AHAM) handbook on dryer care and safety. You can read about: Proper installation materials and how to use them How to [...]
- Home Appliance Efficiency to Improve Under New Energy Bill
January 29th, 2008Here’s some news from appliancemagazine.com about saving energy and how the appliance industry is working to make some changes. In late December, President Bush signed into law the “Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007,” a comprehensive energy bill that includes several historic provisions supported by the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers (AHAM) to dramatically improve energy [...]
