The first European Heat Pump Summit 2009 – powered by Chillventa – has ended after two successful days. The enormously broad spectrum of conference participants, exhibitors, honorary sponsors, consultant media partners and sponsors who came from all over Europe created a powerful event in Nürnberg. With some 270 European conference participants, top speakers and 22 exhibitors at the accompanying lobby show, the European Heat Pump Summit in Nürnberg got off to a remarkable start.
“On the basis of the Nürnberg venue’s reputation for refrigeration exhibitions developed over three decades, NürnbergMesse has succeeded in putting heat pumps on the right track in the past years,” says Gabriele Hannwacker, Exhibition Director of the heat pump event. The successful European Heat Pump Summit 2009 effectively emphasizes this.
“The event has succeeded in attracting great professional interest from a standing start. Then there is the marked European orientation – almost every second participant came from abroad – and the focus on a purely B-2-B level,” says Walter Hufnagel, Member of the Management Board of NürnbergMesse. The European heat pump experts and everyone professionally interested in renewable energy were able to gather information and exchange views at a high level in Nürnberg. The summit covered the whole range of power classes for heat pump applications: for industry, commerce, apartment blocks, etc. The heart of the heat pump beats in Nürnberg.
This is also confirmed by Dr. Rainer Jakobs from the Heat Pump and Refrigeration Information Centre (Informationszentrum Wärmepumpe und Kältetechnik IZW), the coordinator of the European Heat Pump Summit 2009: “Participants, speakers and exhibitors are similarly impressed.
Heat pumps have been presented in an enormous spectrum and the event has found its home in Nürnberg. This is also underlined by the working talks and board meetings held by the national and international heat pump associations in the summit environment.”
Farewell to the refrigeration and air conditioning industry
The successful European Heat Pump Summit 2009 marks the end of a
30-year commitment to European refrigeration, air conditioning and ventilation exhibitions for Walter Hufnagel, Member of the Management Board of NürnbergMesse. Hufnagel is retiring into private life with effect from 1 January 2010.
Outlook
Heat pumps will continue to be covered at Chillventa 2010 with the Industrial Heat Pump Village and the Heat Pump Symposium the day before the exhibition, and the European Heat Pump Summit enters its second round on 28–29 September 2011.
Background
NürnbergMesse will also organize the second European Heat Pump Summit in 2011 in close cooperation with the honorary sponsors IEA-HPP, ehpa, EPEE, BIV, the German Ministry of Economics and Technology, bwp, DKV, IZW and the PTJ Forschungszentrum Jülich.
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