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 ...

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 ...

I am conflicted about the $899 Maytag MVWB765FW top-load washing machine. It performs well, but its display panel is a complete mess. The various buttons and related LED status lights are all jumbled ...

Thumbtacked to a cork bulletin board on the second floor of the Maytag washing machine plant here, rows of charts and graphs hang like Tarot cards waiting to reveal the future. Chuck Parke, the ...

— Products are chosen independently by our editors. Purchases made through our links may earn us a commission. Whirlpool and Maytag are two of the most recognizable names in washing machines, but you ...

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 ...

Through innovation and marketing, that business became such a success that in 1924 one of every five washing machines sold in the United States was a Maytag. The name Maytag wasn't just on the factory ...