GE’s New Line of French Door Refrigerators Offers Most Sophisticated Ice and Water Technology Available Today

20 March 2012

GE’s New Line of French Door Refrigerators Offers Most Sophisticated Ice and Water Technology Available Today

 

• From dispensing hot water to Hands-free Autofill, GE refrigerators make life more convenient at home
• Advanced technology keeps foods and beverages fresher longer
• The refrigerators will roll off the line in Louisville, Kentucky, creating hundreds of new jobs

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – March 20, 2012 – (NYSE:GE) – As technological competition in refrigeration heats up, GE has risen above the rest. Featuring the most advanced ice and water technology on the market today, the newGE French door refrigerators offer intelligent home technology that makes your world work better. Breaking new ground, the GE Profile™ model’sHands-free Autofill system eliminates the need to stand and wait, automatically filling any container with filtered water. In addition, the GE Café™ model is the first refrigerator to feature a hot water dispenser, capable of serving up tea and oatmeal in minutes. And in yet another industry breakthrough, the model’s easy-to-access advanced filtration system is the first to remove harmful pharmaceuticals from water and ice.

“Our commitment first and foremost is to simplify and streamline the consumer’s world, applying innovations in a way that makes home life easier,” said John Boyd, refrigeration marketing manager for GE Appliances. “There’s more to a refrigerator than just storing food and beverages and keeping them cold. The industry-first features in our new French door models provide convenience, efficiency and bring ease to the hectic lives of busy consumers.”

Industry’s most advanced ice and water system

• In an industry-first, the 29 cubic foot GE Profile model features a Hands-free Autofill system that fully fills a glass, water bottle, coffee pot or pitcher. The dispenser’s pull-out tray holds a container so you can press the button and walk away while it fills up automatically. The technology behind the feature uses sound waves from ultrasonic sensors and proximity detectors similar to those used to fill up fuel tanks in locomotives. The model also includes a PreciseFill™ feature that dispenses filtered water in accurate measurements for easy food and drink preparation.
• The 29 cubic foot GE Café model is the first refrigerator in the industry to feature a hot water dispenser, which can heat up to 12 ounces of water in two minutes – ideal for oatmeal, a cup of tea, or a bottle of baby formula. The hot water dispenser lets you accurately choose the perfect temperature or select one of the four pre-programmed settings to simplify hot food and drink preparation.
• As concern for water quality grows, all of the new GE French door refrigerators feature the most advanced water filtration system in the industry. The system has been tested and verified by an independent third party to remove 98 percent of five trace pharmaceuticals from drinking water and ice.¹ The GE Profile model filter is conveniently and newly located on the inside of the refrigerator door, allowing for quick and easy filter replacement.

Foods and beverages stay fresher, longerThe 29-cubic-foot Profile and Café models include a full-width, adjustabletemperature-controlled drawer with five settings for meat, beverage, produce, cheese and citrus and temperatures ranging from 32 to 40 degrees, The drawer is designed to keep specific foods and drinks at the proper storage temperature, but can also be set as the same temperature as the overall refrigerator. Colored LED lights in the drawer – red, green, blue, aqua and purple – can be set to remind you of the temperature setting you have chosen.

The French door refrigerators also feature TwinChill™ evaporators, which separate airflow and climates in the fresh food and freezer sections to help maintain temperature and humidity levels to keep foods fresh. The separation of the air limits the amount of humidity in the freezer, reducing freezer burn while keeping freezer odors from mixing with refrigerator odors.

Designed to make our world work betterConsistent with GE’s fundamental focus of making the consumer’s world work better, the new GE French door refrigerator models exceed ENERGY STAR ® standards. These new models are the first bottom-freezers in the U.S. to use cyclopentane foam, which reduces the greenhouse gas emissions during manufacturing and at the end of the product’s life cycle, ultimately making this line better for the environment.

Some GE French door refrigerator models will also feature GE’s Brillion™connected home technology. On this product, Brillion technology, when coupled with a GE Nucleus, enables a consumer to receive maintenance and service alerts, monitor energy consumption, and adjust some appliance settings remotely.

Additionally, showcase LED lighting produces lighter, crisper illumination throughout the refrigerator’s interior. And the line includes many extra storage features, such as a drop-down tray, three freezer baskets, a second icemaker in the freezer and a space-saving icemaker in the door.

GE’s new French door refrigerators will be available in 27 and 29 cubic feet models in GE and GE Profile brands, and a 29 cubic foot model will be available in the GE Café brand.

The GE Profile refrigerators will be available in June, and the GE Café models will be available in the fourth quarter of this year. The range of estimated retail prices is from $1,699 to $2,999.²

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¹Removes ibuprofen, atenolol, fluoxetine, progesterone, and trimethoprim.Not all pharmaceuticals may be present in your water

²Retailers set their own prices.