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The Maytag Neptune TL: The Washer that Caused Maytag’s Death
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The Neptune TL was Maytag's own design as combo52 said.
It was made by Maytag in Florence South Carolina, not Florence Italy. The Florence SC plant was formerly the Amana/Caloric range plant which Maytag took ownership of in 2001 when they bought Amana. In late 2003, Maytag discontinued the Amana-built range lineup (in favor of slapping the Amana badge onto Magic Chef ranges). They then completely retooled the Florence plant from a cooking plant to a laundry plant, in order to build the Neptune TL washer which launched at that time. This was the only product made in that plant for the rest of its existence. The Neptune TL match dryers were built in Newton. Maytag closed the Florence plant and discontinued the Neptune TL washer in early 2006, shortly before Whirlpool took control of the company.
Haier then bought the patent for the Neptune TL from Whirlpool/Maytag and relaunched it. I don't think their attempt was long lived either and I'm not sure it was ever sold in the US - this page says it was designed for the South Asian market: https://appliancist.com/laundry/washers_dryers/haier-top-load-washing-machine.html
I don't recall seeing an Amana version of the Neptune TL, however, there was the "Amana Enlighten" which was a rebadge of the standard front load Neptune, which reused the control panel styling from the Neptune TL: https://www.ajmadison.com/cgi-bin/ajmadison/NAH6800AWW.html
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