How old is my Kelvinator?

1. Find the rating label. Where to look on each kind of appliance.
2. Take a photo of the whole label, or note the model and serial numbers.
3. Use the lookup below. It is free, and no account is needed. A date is shown only when the available evidence supports it.

Kelvinator appliances

How to find the age, the serial number, typical life and parts for each:

• Kelvinator refrigerator10–15 yrs
• Kelvinator freezer10–20 yrs

In North America Kelvinator was mainly a refrigerator and freezer brand, and from 1952 it also sold laundry equipment under the ABC name; today Kelvinator Commercial makes chest freezers, reach-ins, merchandisers and dipping cabinets for food service, and in Australia the name has been used on refrigerators and air conditioners.

Kelvinator is a refrigeration brand that began in Detroit and dominated early electric refrigerator sales in the United States. In North America the name now appears mainly on commercial food-service refrigeration, while home refrigerators and freezers bearing the name are mostly older units made under White Consolidated Industries or Electrolux.

Varies by era and region: Kelvinator itself, American Motors, White Consolidated Industries, then Electrolux; commercial units by Electrolux Professional

Owned by

Electrolux Group (consumer brand outside India); Electrolux Professional (Kelvinator Commercial in North America); Reliance Retail (India, since 2025)

Headquarters

Stockholm, Sweden (Electrolux); brand founded in Detroit, Michigan, United States

Founded

1914

Product lines

Kelvinator Commercial, ABC (laundry, from 1952), Nash-Kelvinator (corporate name, 1937-1954)

Sister brands: Frigidaire, Electrolux, Gibson, Tappan, White-Westinghouse, AEG, Zanussi.

• 1914: Engineer Nathaniel B. Wales founded the company in Detroit; it took the Kelvinator name in 1916, after Lord Kelvin.
• 1937: Kelvinator merged with Nash Motors to form Nash-Kelvinator, which became part of American Motors in 1954.
• 1968: American Motors sold Kelvinator to White Consolidated Industries.
• 1986: Electrolux bought White Consolidated Industries, taking over the Kelvinator name.
• 2001: Electrolux added the Australian Kelvinator business when it bought Email Limited's appliance division.
• 2025: Reliance Retail bought the Kelvinator brand for India from Electrolux.

Every Kelvinator check is compared with Health Canada, U.S. CPSC and U.S. NHTSA recall notices.