• HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org
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    18 hours ago

    GE no longer makes appliances. It’s a licensed out name now.

    I figure their star finally fell when they stopped making locomotives. What kind of giant industrial conglomerate does that?! EveN Hitachi, a brand mostly known for marital aids, makes locomotives!

    • weeeeum@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      I use a lot of Japanese woodworking tools and hearing Hitachi outside of the context of steel production is always so confusing. They make some of the finest steels in the world, to be forged into unparalleled blades by master craftsmen and they also make “marital aids”.

    • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works
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      15 hours ago

      GE, the conglomerate, no longer exists. They sold off most of the divisions and spun off the three remaining into their own business. GE Aerospace is the “corporate successor” but as of 2024, the old General Electric is no more.