Traduction de «household-appliance industry » (Anglais → Français) :

Stainless steel cold-rolled flat products are used in a wide range of applications, for example in the production of household appliances (for example the interior of washing machines and dishwashers), welded tubes and medical devices as well as in the food processing and automotive industries.

When the first regulations were introduced under the act in 1995, they included standards for common household appliances, as well as home heating devices and some commercial and industrial equipment.

European industry is at the forefront in technology, and occupies the strategic high ground in the global competition on energy efficiency technology in most sectors, including turbines, combined heat and power and district heating technologies, household appliances and building materials.

European industry is at the forefront in technology, and occupies the strategic high ground in the global competition on energy efficiency technology in most sectors, including turbines, combined heat and power and district heating technologies, household appliances and building materials.

MAJOR STRUCTURAL CHANGES HAVE TAKEN PLACE Industry responses to the problems of increased world competition, fluctuating energy costs, reductions in subsidies and other forms of intervention by public bodies, and the technological changes taking place can be grouped as follows: - many sectors undertook major rationalization investment, resulting in higher productivity, a reduction in the workforce and a reduction in the consumption of other inputs, such as energy and material - greater flexibility of costs was sought by many industries by moving to multipurpose production equipment (e.g. the cement industry which is now able to switch be ...[+++]tween primary energy sources depending on their relative prices) - externalization of a number of activities previously done in-house (cleaning, accounting), also in order to obtain more cost flexibility - 3 - - a clear tendency towards increased industrial cooperation is appearing with increasing numbers of joint ventures and of mergers and acquisitions, with a view of getting access to new markets or to improve their competitive position (e.g. the food sector) or in order to save costs by capitalizing on synergies in the production process (automobile, aerospace) - companies decided to make a shift or a change of their product range: either a reduced number of products (chemicals, textiles and clothing) or, on the contrary, a wider product range with a view to reducing the cyclical nature of their business (jewelry, household appliances, pulp and paper) Among the factors most referred to by industry as having induced a re- orientation of corporate strategies figure the changing competitive environment: the globalisation of trade (particularly the emergence of new competitors from the Far East) and the creation of the Single Market.

Labelling legislation requiring details of a product’s energy use will apply not just to existing household appliances, but also to commercial and industrial energy-using and related products, such as windows and motors used in buildings.