How old is my MOFFAT?

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.

MOFFAT appliances

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

• MOFFAT refrigerator10–15 yrs
• MOFFAT range or oven13–15 yrs
• MOFFAT freezer10–20 yrs

Current Moffat products seen at Canadian retailers are mainly ranges, refrigerators and chest freezers; other types may have been sold in the past. The separate Moffat commercial cooking brand is unrelated.

Moffat is a Canadian name that began as a stove maker in Ontario in the 1880s and 1890s and is credited with early electric ranges for home use. Since the late 1970s it has been one of the brands of Camco, the Canadian appliance maker later bought by Mabe, and it is now sold in Canada as a basic range of appliances through GE Appliances Canada.

Since 1977 Moffat appliances have been made or sourced by Camco and its successors (GE Appliances Canada / Mabe), often as versions of GE-designed products; production left the Weston plant in the early 1970s and moved from Hamilton offshore after 1983.

Owned by

GE Appliances Canada (appliance brand in Canada)

Headquarters

Burlington, Ontario, Canada (GE Appliances Canada, formerly Camco)

Founded

1892

Sister brands: GE, GE Profile, Café, Monogram, Hotpoint, Haier.

• 1882: Thomas Lang Moffat opened an engineering shop in Markdale, Ontario.
• 1892: The Moffat stove business was established; it later moved to Weston (now part of Toronto).
• 1916: Frederick W. Moffat patented an electric heating element, part of the company's early electric range work.
• 1953: The Moffat family sold the business; ranges and refrigerators were built in Weston until the early 1970s.
• 1971: GSW Limited acquired Moffat; in 1977 GSW merged with Canadian General Electric's appliance arm to form Camco.
• 2005: Mexico's Mabe gained control of Camco, owner of the Moffat, GE and Hotpoint brands in Canada.

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