Ich Liebe Liebherr!

My brand loyalty to Sub Zero refrigerators is under attack again, and this time it's from a Swiss Company called Liebherr . Liebherr has been in the refrigeration business for 50 years and showed up on my radar about three years ago. I think they've been in the US for about the last ten years and based on what I've seen of their increased efforts to tap into the US market, they are planning to stay around for a while.

Like Sub Zero, Liebherr uses dual compressors (it truly is a separate motor and cooling gadget for the refrigeration facet and the freezer aspect). Dual compressors make for a extra green use of energy and better temperature control. Better temperature manage equals longer-lasting meals.

Liebherr is also onto something that caught my eye in their latest product bulletin an they call it their "Active Green Initiative." Active Green means that Liebherr goes above and beyond the call of EPA regulation in the manufacture of their appliances and most notably to me, they comply with something called the RoHS . From their website:

The 2nd key element of ActiveGreen is Liebherr?S RoHS compliance. As of summer of 2007, all Liebherr appliances in North America met RoHS compliance making Liebherr the FIRST refrigeration producer to conform with this instruction worldwide. RoHS stands for the ?Restriction of the usage of certain Hazardous Substances in electrical and electronic system? And removes the use of primary unsafe materials inside the manufacturing of Liebherr products inclusive of lead (Pb), mercury (Hg), cadmium (Cd) and certain sorts of chrome and biphenyl.

The RoHS is a directive followed and phased into practice in the European Union in 2006. With the approaching alternate in US administrations, look for something just like start showing up inside the US. But inside the interim, the EU has presented a pretty noble intention in decreasing the quantity of toxic substances that show up in families.

For the existence of me, I will never apprehend why humans have such a cavalier mindset approximately terrible news elements together with lead or mercury in their home equipment. Lead indicates up in Chinese-made kid's toys and those freak out and demand Congressional movement. Yet at the same time, those identical peoples' US-made fridges and dishwashers are awash within the equal stages of lead, mercury and cadmium.

Anyhow, a Liebherr refrigerator will set you lower back anywhere from five to 10 thousand bucks, putting firmly within the luxury appliance marketplace. So in the intervening time unfortunately; lead-, cadmium-, mercury- and hexavalent chromium-unfastened refrigerators are not available to the center and decrease ends of the marketplace. But as is always the case, higher give up innovation works its way down the marketplace till it becomes a trendy. I desire it'd hurry up.