October 2025 // Nuremberg

European Heat Pump Summit Newsroom

News of the industry

  • Daikin: Acquiring BKF Klima in Denmark

    Daikin Europe N.V. a European subsidiary of Daikin Industries, Ltd. announces acquiring BKF Klima, a Danish Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) distributor, and previously part of Beijer REF. At Daikin’s new offices in Brøndby, Denmark, the company will also open two new facilities, including a Daikin Training Center for installers and Daikin Experience Center for consumers. This strategic acquisition will further enable Daikin to leverage its extensive R&D expertise in low carbon HVAC solutions for the region.

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  • SWEP: Liquid cooling

    As performance needs – and heat – increases, liquid cooling is delivering efficiency and sustainability to data centers around the world. US data center demand is expected to grow 10% a year until 2030. With demand being measured by power consumption to reflect the number of servers in a data centre.1 While this is a US-based prediction, we can already see countless new data center construction projects on the horizon in the EU, APAC and LATAM markets. This data center need is being driven by our ever-increasing digital footprint, and fast-growing tools like AI, big data and high-performance computing.

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  • Daikin: 100 Years

    From a pioneer to a global leader in heating and cooling. The story of Daikin has always been shaped by groundbreaking ideas, technological innovations, and dedicated people. It began in 1924 when the young Japanese engineer Akira Yamada founded an enterprise in Osaka to manufacture aircraft radiators with a 15-member team. Today, 100 years later, we bring future-proof solutions for heating, cooling, ventilation, air purification, and refrigeration to global markets, in a world that has changed through unprecedented leaps in innovation and faces significant challenges. Our more than 96,000 employees in 173 countries continue our legacy of leading technologies to advance low carbon heating and cooling, while ensuring the highest level of comfort – just how you like it.

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  • EHPA: Heat pump market trends

    To shed more light on the latest market tendencies, EHPA organised a webinar on 21 March, entitled, ‘Market Trends and Developments of the Renewable Heating and Cooling Sector’. The webinar was part of the EU-funded project ‘European Technology and Innovation Platform on Renewable Heating and Cooling’ (RHC-ETIP). The online event brought together three experts from the clean heating and cooling sector: Christoph Brunner – CEO of AEE INTEC Austria; Neil Turley – Managing and Engineering Director at Netgreen.eu OU and Netgreensolar Ltd and Andrea Voigt – Vice President and Head of Global Public Affairs and Sustainability at Danfoss Climate Solutions. The panellists had the chance to present and to answer the audience’s questions.

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  • ebm‑papst: Hannover Messe 2024

    HMI, the leading international trade show, will be taking place from April 22 - 26, 2024 in Hanover in Germany. ebm‑papst will be located at booth C50 in hall 7 and will be showcasing how the future can be shaped in harmony with the values of our time. The company will present pioneering application solutions and smart, innovative approaches to efficient air technology, as well as high-speed, oil-free turbo compressors from the HighSpeed segment.

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