Australian house-brand ice makers

Most ice makers sold in Australia carry a badge that belongs to an importer or a retailer rather than to whoever built the machine. 44 of the 58 bench listings we sourced, roughly 76 per cent, sit in that tier across 12 brands and 9 retailers, from $74.85 to $699.99. Several of them are visibly the same hardware at different prices. This page shows where the published specifications support that and where they only hint at it.

Prices and specifications checked 9 September 2026

The tier, brand by brand

Anko is searched for in Australia and does not appear in anything we could source, so it has no row above. That is a statement about our sourcing, not a claim that no such machine exists. We would rather leave the gap visible than fill it with a guess.

The factory code that gives the game away

22 of the 58 bench listings carry a model code containing ZB followed by two digits, across 7 different brands: Advwin, CROWNFUL, Devanti, Everten, Heller, Maxkon, WIE. That string is not a brand code. It is a factory chassis code, and it survives the rebadging because nobody bothers to change it.

The clearest single case is an Amazon listing for a Devanti machine that prints two identifiers at once: a Model Name field carrying Devanti's own SKU, and a Model Number field carrying the raw factory code with the same HZB prefix that appears on two other brands' machines. Elsewhere, one Amazon listing names its manufacturer as a furniture company while giving a Devanti SKU as the manufacturer reference, which means the same supplier is operating under two brand names.

The Devanti side of the same family, which is the largest block of it, is broken down on the Devanti page. Sharing a chassis code does not mean two machines are identical. Factories build variants on one platform. It does mean that the brand name on the front is telling you less than you think it is.

Same footprint, different badge

2 sets of machines in this dataset publish exactly the same external dimensions under different brand names. We are not calling them the same product, because the rest of the published specifications do not all line up. Here they are side by side so you can see where they agree and where they do not.

230 x 300 x 300 mm: Alfordson and Devanti

The cases differ but the internals as published do not fully match, so these look similar rather than being provably the same. Compare the wattage and tank columns before you assume the cheaper one is the same machine: where one of them publishes a figure the other leaves blank, you are comparing a known quantity against an unknown one.

222 x 290 x 294 mm: CROWNFUL and Silonn and Westinghouse

The cases differ but the internals as published do not fully match, so these look similar rather than being provably the same. Compare the wattage and tank columns before you assume the cheaper one is the same machine: where one of them publishes a figure the other leaves blank, you are comparing a known quantity against an unknown one.

The same badge at two shops

Before worrying about which brands share a factory, there is easier money in the same model code at two different retailers. 5 house-brand model codes in this dataset appear at more than one shop.

Worth stating plainly, because it cuts against us: the dearest listing in that table sits at Appliances Online, which is one of only two retailers on this site we have an affiliate application in with, and the cheaper one for the identical model is at a department store we earn nothing from. The listing that costs more also publishes less. That is the whole tier in one row.

One more that the model codes hide. The same Alfordson machine appears at two retailers under two different record codes with every published figure identical, dimensions, tank, basket and weight alike, at $74.85 and $109.95. That is $35.10 of difference, or roughly 47 per cent, for the same brand and the same specification sheet.

What this tier does not tell you

The absences are consistent enough across brands to be a property of the tier rather than of any one listing.

• Noise. 1 of 44 publish a decibel figure. Several claim quiet operation without a number behind it.
• Power. 22 of 44 publish a wattage, so running cost cannot be calculated for the rest. Where a figure does appear it is sometimes a range rather than a number, which is a published value we record as unusable rather than averaging into something false.
• Warranty. 28 of 44 publish a term. The longest is 5 years, on Wolstead Crystal Ice Maker 12kg and Wolstead Crystal Ice Sphere Maker 2.3kg, which is unusual for the price band and is the single clearest reason to pay more within this tier.
• What ice it makes. 9 listings never state a shape at all, and one model is sold as nugget with the claim in genuine dispute between two sourcing passes. The reasoning on that one is on the nugget page.
• Who you are buying from. 11 of these listings are sold by a third-party marketplace seller on a retailer's site rather than by the retailer. The shopfront looks the same and the counterparty on a warranty claim is not.

How to buy in this tier

• Compare on the model code, never on the product name. These brands rename the same machine constantly and the code is the only stable identifier. Where a listing publishes no code at all, you cannot price-check it against anything.
• Assume the cheap 12kg bullet machines are interchangeable. Across several brands they publish the same output, the same tank, the same basket and often the same chassis dimensions. Buy the cheapest one with a published warranty term from a seller you would be willing to argue with.
• Pay more only for a mechanism, not for a badge. The genuine differences in this tier are a real auger nugget machine, a plate machine that makes solid cubes rather than hollow bullets, and a long warranty. Everything else is finish and price.
• Check the retailer pages before you commit. The same units and the same brands appear at Harvey Norman, The Good Guys and the discount chains at different prices, and we earn nothing from most of them.

Common questions

Is there an Anko ice maker?

Not in anything we could source. Anko is Kmart's house brand and no Anko ice maker appeared in the 58 bench listings we sourced across Australian retailers, so we have nothing to publish about one. What Kmart does stock is covered on our Kmart page. If you have seen an Anko ice maker in a store, it is not in the listings we could reach, and we would rather say that than describe a product we have not seen.

Are Maxkon and Devanti the same machine?

The published specifications do not let us say that. Maxkon publishes almost nothing: no ice shape, no dimensions, no wattage, no bin capacity, no warranty term. With those fields empty there is no basis for a same-machine claim in either direction. What we can say about Maxkon is that its numbers do not reconcile with each other: it claims 17kg per 24 hours, the highest figure in its price band, from a 2.2 litre tank, while publishing a first batch of 13 to 20 minutes, which is the slowest cycle in the file. A slow cycle and a high daily total cannot both hold.

Is Morphy Richards a real brand or a house brand?

A licensed British brand name, and in this category the machines behave like a house-brand range with one genuine exception. The bullet machines under the badge are conventional units at conventional prices. The MRICE17SS nugget machine is not: the manufacturer describes a precision motor and a pillar-shaped evaporator producing up to 15 chewable pieces a minute, which is continuous auger production and the clearest verified nugget evidence in this dataset. Morphy Richards' own Australian site marks that model run out, so confirm stock before planning around it.

Do these brands have Australian service networks?

Mostly not in the way an appliance brand does. 28 of the 44 listings in this tier publish a warranty term at all, and 11 of them are sold by a third-party marketplace seller trading on a retailer's website rather than by the retailer itself, which the sourcing note records in each case. That determines who you deal with if the machine fails. Australian Consumer Law guarantees apply either way, but the practical difference between claiming against a national retailer and claiming against a marketplace trader is real, and it is worth ten or twenty dollars of the price gap.