NEWTON, Iowa (AP) -- The last washers and dryers were rolling off Maytag assembly lines here Thursday and the 550 workers who built them were preparing to leave the 2 million-square-foot factory for ...

The humble washing machine is an appliance that few of us are truly passionate about. They’re expected to come into our lives and serve faithfully, with a minimum of fuss. In the good old days, it was ...

We don’t know how old our washing machine is. Maytag model A308, serial # 888032AL, when entered into several appliance-age websites (yes, these exist) generates a result that claims that the machine ...

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I would offer that same spirit of Mr. Maytag will never leave this community and I'm already seeing this spirit of reinventing itself, looking to the future, and that's very much what F.L. Maytag did, ...

It’s ironic that the closing of the factory occurs 100 years after the development of Fred Maytag’s first washing machine in Newton. It was in 1907 that he made and marketed first wooden-tub washing ...