The soon-to-be-closed Maytag plant. Last year the Whirlpool Corporation bought Maytag - washer, dryer and all. "We looked at every element of the business here in Newton," Whirlpool's Jeff Noel ...

In 1927, a Maytag clothes washer came with a gas engine ... 92 gas engine (produced from 1927 into 1937) and put it on an old machine. It's noisy. Really noisy, in fact. And it doesn't quite ...

It was Maytag that remained the mainstay in Newton for decades, but now Whirlpool is gradually closing Maytag’s operations in Newton, with the last washers ... Seventy-year-old John Daehler ...

said the company was looking at the possible closure of two high-cost locations _ Maytag's flagship washer and dryer factory in Newton, Iowa and its Hoover factory in North Canton, Ohio.