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Osaka, Japan — Panasonic Company has introduced that its Heating & Air flow A/C Firm (HVAC) will launch three new fashions of economic air-to-water (A2W) warmth pumps utilizing environmentally pleasant pure refrigerants for multidwelling items, shops, workplaces, and different gentle industrial properties in September 2024. They make use of compact designs which might be on the highest stage of the business¹ and be a part of our lineup of fashions for stand-alone properties to serve a wider vary of buyer wants.

A2W is a heating system that captures warmth from the air to create scorching water to be used in buildings. It minimizes environmental influence with much less CO₂ emissions in comparison with fossil fuel-using heaters, driving demand in Europe. Development thus far has centered on properties, and with the addition of multidwelling items and light-weight industrial properties demand is predicted to develop.

The worldwide warming influence of hydroflurocarbons (HFCs)² used because the refrigerants of air conditioners, A2W, and comparable tools led to them being designated for gradual manufacturing and consumption phaseout beneath the Montreal Protocol³ (Kigali Modification) in October 2016, which got here into impact in January 2019.

Panasonic started European gross sales in 2008 of its Aquarea, a residential A2W system developed based mostly on energy-saving applied sciences collected by Eco Cute and air conditioners. Key options embody its heating perform that maintains heat even in chilly areas⁴ and the flexibility to make use of it for cooling in hotter areas. Distant monitoring companies are supplied by way of the cloud. In Might 2023 Panasonic was the primary Japanese producer to launch merchandise utilizing pure refrigerants.

It acquired the industrial hydronic air-con enterprise of the key Swedish air high quality and air-con tools producer Systemair AB (hereinafter known as Systemair) on the finish of February 2023. Systemair has made important progress in environmental expertise akin to use of pure refrigerants instead of fluorocarbons akin to hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).

Panasonic mixed its personal extremely developed air-con expertise with Systemair’s environmental expertise to create new A2W merchandise with highly effective heating capacities. Manufacturing will start in September 2024 within the Czech Republic and in France from April subsequent yr in readiness for the discharge of those merchandise this September. Key options of the brand new merchandise are as follows.

1. A lineup of merchandise with highly effective heating capacities for multidwelling items and light-weight industrial properties

Our lineup thus far consisted of fashions with six ranges of heating capability from 3 to 16 kilowatts, so the most recent additions mark a major leap as much as 20, 25, and 30 kilowatts. They are often put in in multidwelling items, shops, workplaces, and different gentle industrial properties to handle a variety of buyer wants.

2. First Japanese producer to undertake pure refrigerants with an especially low greenhouse impact for A2W in multidwelling items and light-weight industrial properties

So far the R32 HFC refrigerant has been the mainstream for A2W in multidwelling items and light-weight industrial properties, however Panasonic has grow to be the primary Japanese producer to undertake R290, a pure refrigerant with an especially low greenhouse impact. Panasonic plans to additional broaden its lineup sooner or later.

3. Efficiently adoption of a compact design on the highest stage of the business, permitting set up in small areas

The brand new fashions have a compact design placing them on the highest stage within the business, efficiently shaving roughly 30% off the scale of present A2W for properties.⁵ They are often put in even in locations with restricted area.

Panasonic is striving to create areas which might be nice to be in whereas being totally aware of the worldwide surroundings, making the utmost use of its technological and manufacturing capabilities in addition to its knowhow of individuals’s lives refined by its a few years of enterprise.

¹ As of March 14, 2024, in a comparability with competing fashions of comparable capability. Analysis by Panasonic.

² HFCs (akin to R410A) are alternate options to CFCs but in addition have a excessive greenhouse impact themselves.

³ An environmental settlement aiming to guard the ozone layer. Its aim is to cut back the manufacturing and consumption of drugs that will destroy the ozone layer. It has an outlined schedule to cut back use of those substances.

⁴ For fashions outfitted with Panasonic’s proprietary T-CAP expertise.

⁵ Set up space for considered one of Panasonic’s 30 kW A2W fashions in comparison with two of its J Collection (16 kW) fashions.

About Panasonic Company: Panasonic Company provides services for a wide range of residing environments, starting from properties to shops to workplaces and cities. There are 5 companies on the core of Panasonic Company: Dwelling Home equipment and Options Firm, Heating & Air flow A/C Firm, Chilly Chain Options Firm, Electrical Works Firm and China and Northeast Asia Firm. The working firm reported consolidated internet gross sales of three,483.3 billion yen for the yr ended March 31, 2023. Panasonic Company is dedicated to fulfilling the mission of Life Tech & Concepts: For the wellbeing of individuals, society and the planet, and embraces the imaginative and prescient of turning into the very best accomplice of your life with human-centric expertise and innovation.