Appliance Technologies
Building on our competitive edge in the digital home appliance market, we at LG seek to create solutions for a simpler, yet revolutionary new lifestyle for our customers.
The LG Electronics Digital Appliances division focuses on providing customers with comfortable, sound, and stylish products for the home. We do this by continually improving our digital home appliances across every area of daily life. Our innovative product lines include air conditioners, refrigerators, washing machines, and vacuum cleaners-putting quality and value above all.
Currently, LG is actively pursuing further development of its silent, low-vibration, energy-efficient, and environmentally friendly appliances-continuing to produce top-notch products worthy of its Global Top 3 market position.
Our cutting-edge technologies include advancements in the refrigeration cycle, IAQ, motor, compressor, and vibration and noise reduction, as well as wave, plasma, and network applications. In addition, LG's home appliance R&D centers are conducting in-depth research into the latest breakthroughs in control/inverter technology, smart control features, and solution technology.
Major R&D Achievements in Digital Appliances
Air Conditioners
LG Electronics is proud to celebrate its seventh successive year of top global sales in air conditioning. Based on its leading design for home air conditioning, LG is once again attracting the commercial market through its high-performance, environmentally friendly commercial air conditioner products, combining top-quality technologies and core components. LG is also well-known for its indispensable commercial solutions such as intelligent controls and fault diagnosis. View Product
Refrigerators
Silent, energy-effective, health-conscious, and environmentally friendly technologies are an essential consideration for refrigerators. In addition to providing the most advanced products on the market, LG also offers world-class, top-quality design and style to add an artistic touch to your home interior while providing all of its promised comforts. Additional functions inherent to every LG refrigerator include premium-quality features such as extended preservation, cleanliness, and freshness, providing customers with enhanced satisfaction. View Product
Washing Machines
The main purpose of a washing machine or a dishwasher is to provide efficient cleaning/washing. With its latest technologies, including water flow analysis, control algorithms, and newly improved driving power, LG Electronics' influence in this field is unparalleled. Other major accomplishments include improved convenience, restructured performance, advanced heat/fluid analysis, and adaptive steam technology to reduce noise/vibration, increase durability, improve energy efficiency, and better respond to material sensitivity. View Product
Cooking Appliances
A broad range of technologies are provided for this purpose, from an energy-efficient heater system to speed cooking and intelligent heating to maximize taste and nutrition for individual preparation. For microwave ovens, LG has developed a uniform microwave distribution and isolation technology, including the latest magnetron tube to better assist the product's overall quality. View Product
Vacuum Cleaners
LG offers the most up-to-date vacuum cleaners with silent, energy-efficient, and cost-efficient motors, drives, and circuits. The robot vacuum cleaner, recently launched by LG, comes with the latest, industry-leading technologies such as Quick GPS Search & Automated Navigation. View Product
Major R&D Achievements in Digital Home Appliances
2007
LG Develops an Effective Multi-V Specifically for Use in Super High-Rises (and Receives the 2007 Top 10 Korean Technology Award): Inverter technology was also applied to achieve the highest efficiency in this field, and also improved the cycle technology for installation in super high-rises.
2006
LG Unveils the Side-by-Side Refrigerator and French Door Side-by-Side Refrigerator with Built-in, Indoor Ice System: LG improves space efficiency by positioning the ice-making system - normally located inside the refrigerator - in the refrigerator door, a compact feature directly accessible from the exterior
LG Develops the Largest Speed-Cooking Oven (65°) - the Speed-Cook Featured Oven: LG creates the industry's largest-capacity oven through advancements in insulation and cooling-circuit technologies. What's more, the world's first halogen oven-heater provides improved performance while decreasing cooking time by 50 percent.
LG Develops the Silent, Packaged Inverter Air Conditioner: The air conditioner's elegant design provides the perfect blend of quality design and comfort. To outperform competitors' products, LG adds silent (20 dB) yet powerful cooling.
2005
LG Develops Dual-Injection Steam Washer (Awarded Korea's Top 10 Innovative Technology Award, 2006): LG's own dual-injection technology makes use of both steam and liquid detergents to boost performance while providing improved, convenient washing cycles.
LG Develops Largest-Capacity Drum Washing Machine (15kg) - The Drum Washing Machine: Using a Direct Drive motor, one of LG's core home appliance technologies in home appliances, the company is able to offer customers the greatest capacity of all other products of the same drum size.
2003
Development of Linear Compressor, Natural Refrigerant (R600a) DIOS: LG's own linear-motion compression technology provides enhanced performance compared to conventional models, while dramatically decreasing its overall power consumption.
2002
Development of Home Network System (Winner of the President's Award for Multimedia Technology Excellence): With its Home Network System, LG develops a means of connecting all home appliances to further improve usability and control.
