Daikin Industries, Ltd. News

Daikin Urges Immediate Government Action To Decarbonize Domestic Heating As Manifesto Launch Approaches

According to the British voting public, UK political parties aren’t doing enough to prioritize Sustainability​ in the upcoming election. With nearly two-thirds (64 percent) of Britons saying that green issues should be one of the top priorities in the General Election, politicians who don’t are clearly out of step with public opinion. building heating emissions With 17% of heating emissions from buildings coming from homes in the UK, it is no wonder that these issues are important...

Daikin Partners With Buckinghamshire College To Launch New Training Facility And Boost Green Skills

Buckinghamshire College Group and globally renowned heat pump provider, Daikin, in partnership with Quantum Group, have launched a new training facility for heat pump engineers, in a bid to address the green skills gap that could prevent the government from achieving its net zero ambitions. Funded by the Local Skills Improvement Fund, in collaboration with Daikin and decarbonization specialist and renewable training provider, Quantum Group; the training center will upskill workforces in the cou...

Hive And Daikin Join Forces To Integrate Heat Pumps With Smart Home Technology

Smart home expert - Hive and heat pump manufacturer - Daikin have announced the first step in a long-term collaboration to make net zero easier by helping customers control their heat pump through the Hive app. visibility and control The collaboration will see Daikin Altherma 3 heat pumps integrated with Hive energy management technology to give customers greater visibility and control of their heating system. This includes allowing homeowners to personalize heating schedules, track spending,...

Dame Rose Winterton Unveils Doncaster's New Daikin Sustainable Home Center At Spinks Doncaster

Doncaster has welcomed the opening of a cutting-edge Sustainable Home Center from the UK’s heat pump manufacturer, Daikin, in conjunction with Spinks, located in Kelham Street, Doncaster.  Sustainable Home Center The center was officially opened on April 19th, as part of Daikin’s commitment to advancing sustainable home solutions; and is the sixth Sustainable Home Center launched by the business in 2024. With the nation’s momentum shifting from fossil fuels to renewable...

Richard Foord MP Unveils Honiton's New Daikin Sustainable Home Center

On April 11th, a brand-new state-of-the-art heat pump showroom and training center opened its doors in Honiton. Daikin Sustainable Home Center Daikin, the UK’s heat pump manufacturer, has continued to grow its Sustainable Home Network, which provides local access to the latest heating and cooling technologies and training facilities to upskill heating engineers as the nation transitions from fossil fuels to renewable energy. This is Daikin’s fifth Sustainable Home Centre launch in...

CEO Warrior Enters Into Agreement With Daikin Industries

CEO Warrior, a nationally recognized business development, training, and implementation organization for the service business industry, announced that it has entered into an agreement with Daikin Industries, Ltd., the world’s top indoor comfort solutions provider. CEO Warrior and Daikin partnership “This agreement with Daikin is another example of our continued support for our membership by providing them with preferred access to the products and services that make their jobs easie...

Daikin Acquires UK Service Company Robert Heath Heating

Daikin UK has acquired Robert Heath Heating Ltd, a heating service company. In a deal signed, the acquisition will serve to strengthen Daikin’s residential heating service network in the UK.  The move aligns with Daikin’s strategy to play a pioneering role in the UK’s transition towards low-carbon heating and consolidates its position in the renewable heating market. Air source heat pumps Air source heat pumps are expected to play a crucial role in helping the UK Govern...

Energetic AHR 2024 Highlights Innovation In The Face Of Regulation

AHR Expo 2024 was abuzz with activity, befitting a dynamic industry in the throes of change.  Industry developments such as electrification and the refrigerant transition render business opportunities on the AHR Expo show floor, where exhibitors display a determination to meet the challenges and thrive in the process. Walking from booth to booth during the three-day show in Chicago, I saw the best the HVAC industry has to offer, up close and personal. Innovation and adaptability are the w...

Airzone Easyzone Offers Plug-And-Play Zoning And Peak Efficiency For Every VRF Manufacturer

Airzone Control, the provider of HVAC solutions for zoning, automation, and smart control, will showcase its expanded Easyzone product line at AHR Expo, the essential event for HVACR industry professionals.  This all-in-one zoning solution for concealed Inverter/VRF HVAC units is now compatible with the top seven pioneering manufacturers in the North American market, including Samsung, Daikin, Mitsubishi, LG, Toshiba, Fujitsu, and Hitachi. Zoning Zoning is a powerful tool for e...

Airzone Announces Google Nest Thermostat Integration

Airzone Control, a provider of HVAC solutions for zoning, automation, and smart control, announces a revolutionary new integration with the full portfolio of Nest™ thermostats. The integration between the Airzone Aidoo Pro and Nest smart thermostats (Nest Thermostat™ and Nest Learning Thermostat™) enables seamless bi-directional communication between the Inverter/VRF and mini-split HVAC units that are soaring in popularity. Two Expanding Categories The Inverter/VRF solutions...

COP28 Adopts ‘Global Cooling Pledge,’ Now Real Action Is Needed

Businesses in the HVAC market were high-profile participants at the COP28 conference in Dubai. Several big HVAC companies had a presence at the conference, and the industry’s technologies are an important tool to achieve the conference’s stated climate goal of net-zero global greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. COP28 The Conference of Parties of the United National Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28) took place Nov. 30-Dec. 12 in Dubai. Some 35,000 people were involved in...

Daikin Bolsters Sustainable Home Network With Nine Openings In 2023

Daikin UK, the UK’s heat pump manufacturer, has opened the doors to nine new centers and showrooms this year, growing its national Sustainable Home Network by almost 40% year on year. In 2023 alone, Daikin UK expanded its Sustainable Home Network by opening centers across England, Scotland and Wales – including Northampton, Sheffield, Yorkshire, Aberdeen and Port Talbot – in partnership with builders’ merchants, heating specialists and energy companies across the UK. Tr...

Daikin Launches Innovative Trust Label For Heat Pump Installers: Stand By Me – Certified Partner Program

Daikin Europe N.V. is launching Stand By Me – Certified Partner, a unique Europe-wide support program for heat pump installers. The program allows the installer community to manage Daikin’s residential heat pump technologies and is open for all installers to join. It builds on Daikin’s tradition of assuring a strong, pan-European network of highly skilled installers and technicians for the Daikin heat pumps. Daikin is enhancing its support for all installers, ensuring the mark...

Qvantum Wins Prestigious HVAC Product Of The Year Award At Prestigious H&V Awards Gala

At a ceremony at the London Hilton Metropole for the H&V News Awards, Qvantum was presented with the award for Domestic Heating Product of the Year – Boilers, Heat Pumps, and Emitters, overcoming significant competition from other products by Tesla, NIBE Energy Systems, Daikin, Navien and others.   H&V News Awards For nearly 30 years, the H&V News Awards has been recognizing and celebrating the most innovative and customer-focused products of the year, gaining a reputati...

Unlock The Potential Of Smart HVAC Integrated Controls With Cloud-Based Cielo Linked Platform & Enjoy Rebates With MassSave

Cielo Linked is a cloud-based platform that revolutionizes smart integrated HVAC controls. It enables users to effortlessly link their central air conditioning system with room air conditioners, such as mini-split, window, and portable units, using Cielo smart climate control products. With Cielo Linked, users can create an intelligent automated environment control system for their home. They can set up links to automatically switch between the central and room air conditioners based on weather...

Daikin Marks Inaugural Green Heating Gap Day

Eco-heating specialist - Daikin UK is marking its inaugural Green Heating Gap Day on Friday, 19th May. It symbolizes the point in the calendar at which its most efficient heat pump effectively stops emitting carbon compared with the average gas boiler over a full year. Efficiency  Daikin’s most efficient heat pump emits just over a third (38%) of the CO2 of the average gas boiler, meaning that homeowners investing in this technology will effectively be heating their homes carbon-fr...

Airzone Announces The Long-Awaited Launch Of Easyzone In The North American Market

Airzone, the pioneer in dynamic HVAC control solutions, announces the long-awaited launch of Easyzone in the North American market. Easyzone is a plug-and-play, all-in-one zoning solution for concealed inverter and VRF HVAC units. At launch, Airzone will offer custom zoning kits for Samsung, Daikin, Mitsubishi, and LG systems, with more to come throughout 2023. Easyzone is well established in the European marketplace as an easy-to-install and energy-efficient zoning solution. It ships as a pre-...

Daikin Has Signed An Agreement With Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA)

Low-carbon heating specialist Daikin has signed an agreement with Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) in a first-of-its-kind public and private joint approach to decarbonization.  This is the first time a Japanese company and GMCA has signed a memorandum of understanding for mutual cooperation. The agreement was signed by Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester, and Masatsugu Minaka, Chairman of the Board of Daikin Europe N.V. and Senior Executive Officer of Daikin Industries Lt...

Daikin Adds Three New Centres To Its Sustainable Home Network

Daikin UK has opened the doors of three new Sustainable Home Centres in partnership with Clima-tech HVAC Ltd in Suffolk, Richmonds Plumbing and Heating Merchants Ltd in Glasgow, and Duftons Plumbing and Heating Supplies in Harrogate, adding to its national network. renewable heating solutions The UK’s air-source heat pump manufacturer is partnering with builders merchants, heating specialists, and energy companies across the UK to create walk-in locations for homeowners to get to grips w...

Daikin Sponsors Venue For New Immersive Attraction

Eco-heating specialist - Daikin UK is sponsoring the venue for BBC Earth Experience, a brand new attraction in London featuring Seven Worlds, One Planet. This ground-breaking new attraction will offer visitors the chance to experience the extraordinary diversity of the seven unique continents, featuring bespoke narration from David Attenborough. BBC Earth Experience BBC Earth Experience will showcase footage, including extended scenes to fully immerse the visitor, and music from the BBC Studi...

EDF, CB Heating And Daikin Partner To Create A New Training Academy

In a positive step forward to decarbonize homes in Britain, EDF, alongside CB Heating and Daikin, has launched a new Training Academy, the first open to all applicants to drive the upskilling of heat pump installers.  As part of securing the UK’s energy security and meeting its climate commitments, the UK government has cited heat pumps as a crucial component in its future heating strategy in a bid to reduce reliance on gas and lower rising energy prices for the longer term. &nb...

Daikin Adds Three New Sustainable Home Centers To Its Growing Sustainable Home Network

Daikin UK has opened the doors of three new Sustainable Home Centers, bringing its national network to around 40-strong. The UK’s air-source heat pump manufacturer is partnering with builder’s merchants, heating specialists, and energy companies around the country to educate homeowners on the benefits of renewable heating solutions in person. heat pump showroom By opening a state-of-the-art heat pump showroom and training facility, jointly funded by Daikin, these new Sustainable H...

Daikin Partners With Hiber To Offer Homeowners A Range Of Flexible Payment Options

Some of the heating industry's most active heat pump installers will now be able to offer homeowners a range of flexible payment options thanks to a new partnership between Daikin and back-office support app, hiber. The new partnership is set to revolutionize the way homeowners can access and pay for heat pump technology and overcome one of the main barriers to achieving the government's target of 600,000 heat pump installations by 2028. Heat pump technology The flexible payment options will...

How New Efficiency Standards Affect Rooftop Units

The second phase of the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) new efficiency standards is quickly approaching. In January 2023, the new standard will require commercial systems, including rooftop units, to achieve an additional 15% efficiency. While the new standards drive innovation and opportunity within the HVAC industry, they also adds stress, pressure, and complexity to product developers and manufacturers as they brainstorm how to meet and communicate the next set of efficiency stand...

Japan's Daikin To Make Air Conditioners Without Chinese Parts

Japan's Daikin which has always relied on China for air conditioner parts in the last decade, got fed up with China's long zero COVID policy and decided to dump China for AC parts. Daikin Industries has planned to dump China as it has failed to supply parts for the manufacturing of Air conditioners, reported The Singapore Post. Daikin's decision to find an alternative has caused a huge embarrassment to China even as relations between Japan and China completed 50 years. Global chip shortage In...

Airzone Enters The North American Market With Their Aidoo Pro Smart Control Solution For HVAC Inverter Systems

Airzone, a worldwide pioneer in dynamic HVAC control solutions, is entering the rapidly growing North American market with an exclusive smart control solution for HVAC inverter systems. Airzone’s Aidoo Pro acts as the bridge between proprietary HVAC inverter and mini-split manufacturers’ protocols and IoT device APIs, including for the popular ecobee®, Honeywell®, and Nest® smart thermostats. The Aidoo Pro enables HVAC professionals to completely integrate HVAC inverter...

Enercare Focuses On Regulating Warehouse Temperatures With Air Conditioning Technology To Ensure Comfortable Work Environment

Comfortable workplaces spark greater productivity and within Canada’s ever-growing logistics space, the ability to maintain ideal temperatures in busy warehouse environments goes a long way towards keeping workers healthy, engaged, and performing at their peak. That productivity is more important now than ever before. A steady uptick in Canadian e-commerce and intensifying supply chain demands are placing downward pressure on warehouse and material handling operations, which are already b...

Motili Shares Future Sustainability Trends In HVAC Through Their Video Series

In this ongoing video series from Motili, the company highlights PropTech, CRE, multi-family, and single-family industry news. Motili’s latest video takes a look at sustainability trends that are impacting the HVAC industry. Below they outline the topics discussed in the video and outline the key sustainability trends. Sustainability Sustainability is a growing priority in many industries, including the HVAC industry. One of the most significant trends is pushing us towards a more susta...

Motili Takes A Look At The Importance Of Quality HVAC Installation

In a series from Motili, the company highlights PropTech, CRE, multi-family, and single-family industry news. Motili’s latest video takes a look at the importance of quality HVAC installation and the resources available to contractors to ensure they are performing optimally. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently reported that 4 out of 10 American homes have HVAC systems that are improperly designed and installed.  Energy-Efficient living experience Quality installation...

Eurovent Announces Updated Board Composition

The ongoing generation change within Eurovent has brought, among other changes, a major shift in the Board of Directors. The recent changes entered into force during the association’s 66th General Assembly 2022 in Malaga. Following the recent resignation of three members of the Eurovent Board (Bengt Andersson – Lindab, Thomas Schraeder – VDMA, Torsten Sondergaard – FläktGroup), the Eurovent General Assembly filled these functions with newly appointed members...

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