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Here's some colorful bits about what these execs were doing: - "Gree USA then tested the dehumidifiers and found that they regularly caught fire due to the use
by perihelions 3y ago
Here's some colorful bits about what these execs were doing:
- "Gree USA then tested the dehumidifiers and found that they regularly caught fire due to the use of a substandard plastic that was not fire resistant enough. As the Gree CEO told a Hong Kong Gree manager, “the result is not like what you have told us…the result shows the units all can catch the fire and apparently the material is not according to UL standard! I don’t think the factory is telling us the fact and truth. . . .”"
- "But the company kept the dehumidifier issue under wraps. In September 2012, Gree executives decided to delay any recall of the dehumidifiers by six to nine months. The reasoning, according to the court filing, was that “cooler fall and winter temperatures would help prevent Gree dehumidifiers from overheating and catching fire, and that there should be very few, if any, dehumidifier fires in the 6 to 9 months following September 2012.”"
https://www.courthousenews.com/chinese-manufacturer-to-pay-91-million-for-selling-dangerously-defective-dehumidifiers/ https://www.courthousenews.com/chinese-manufacturer-to-pay-9... ("Chinese manufacturer to pay $91 million for selling dangerously defective dehumidifiers" [2021])
primary source: https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1445406/download https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1445406/downl... (pdf)
edit: That pdf court filing is really an absorbing read, pages 41-55 particularly (in Statement Of Facts). Astounding malevolence.
Another example: "Rather, Gree USA’s CEO recommended only that the Gree Companies have another company test the Gree dehumidifiers and then decide whether to delay the recall. Gree Hong Kong Manager #1 responded by urging the Gree USA officers not to conduct such a test of the Gree dehumidifiers because that test would show that the dehumidifiers used plastic that did not meet UL standards for fire resistance."