NEFF Marks 150 Years With New Ovens, Fridge and Dishwasher

NEFF published a press release on 21 September 2026 saying it is celebrating its 150th anniversary and is launching “a whole range of new appliances” to mark it. The company dates its founding to 1877, when Carl Andreas Neff started making ovens in southern Germany with six employees. BSH’s own company wiki confirms the 1877 start and the Bretten location.

What is actually new?

Less than the headline suggests. The release names three product lines, and each has already been announced:

• Matt Black Design range: matt-finish ovens, hobs and hoods. We covered the rollout dates in our NEFF Matt Black Design story.
• Multi-door fridge-freezer with Integrated Ice & Water Dispenser: see our KM3963XE0 story, which also flags the gap between NEFF’s release and the EU information sheet on its energy class.
• Crystal Clean Zone in 60 cm dishwashers: see our dishwasher story.

The anniversary release adds no prices, model numbers or availability dates beyond those earlier announcements. Treat it as a brand-history piece that bundles existing launches, not as new hardware.

Which features does NEFF say it pioneered?

The release lists a timeline that is useful context if you are choosing between brands. These are NEFF’s own claims:

• 1950: an oven with a thermostat, described as the first to allow individual temperature control.
• 1957 and 1958: a microwave oven and induction cooking introduced to European kitchens.
• 1974: the Circo Therm hot-air system, which NEFF says lets you cook cakes, roasts and vegetables on three levels at once without flavours mixing.
• 2000s: the Slide & Hide oven door, which retracts fully beneath the oven, and the Twist Pad Flex magnetic control dial, now used on hobs, ovens and coffee machines.

The release also says NEFF pioneered built-in appliances by integrating ovens, cookers and hobs into cabinets, and later widened the range to fridges and dishwashers.

Why it matters for buyers

NEFF is part of BSH, the group behind Bosch and Siemens, and its feature set overlaps with theirs. For a shopper, the practical points are:

1. Slide & Hide and Twist Pad Flex are the brand’s signature features. If a retracting door or a single magnetic dial matters to you, check the exact model, since not every NEFF oven or hob carries them.
2. Nothing here changes what you can buy today. The Matt Black hobs have been on sale since June 2025 according to NEFF’s earlier release, while the hood, ovens and coffee machine arrive later.
3. Check the EU information sheet, not the press copy, for energy class and consumption before you buy. Our comparison pages for ovens, hobs, dishwashers and refrigerators use manufacturer and EPREL data.

All figures and dates above come from NEFF’s release and are the company’s own statements. We have not independently tested any of the features described.