ENGIE Refrigeration concentrates the production of CO2 high-temperature heat pumps at its corporate headquarters in Lindau

In July 2018, the company transferred to ENGIE Refrigeration from the insolvency estate of Hafner-Muschler Kälte- und Klimatechnik. "In Lindau, we have been producing refrigeration machines for customers worldwide for years. This long-standing expertise of our employees in the production of machines in the high output range is now also incorporated into the production of CO₂ high-temperature heat pumps," says Jochen Hornung, Managing Director of ENGIE Refrigeration. Furthermore, ENGIE Refrigeration is now also using the state-of-the-art plant and the logistics network established in Lindau for the distribution of its heat pumps, thereby increasing synergies and further increasing the efficiency of production and distribution processes. With this decision, ENGIE Refrigeration clearly achieves its strategic goal of adapting the high production standards of its entire product portfolio to the CO₂ high-temperature heat pumps and thereby offering customers the best possible cooling and heating solutions.

Heat pump division is expanded
The CO₂ high temperature heat pumps are an important part of ENGIE Refrigeration's product and service portfolio. Since they reach effective temperatures of up to 110 degrees Celsius, they are used, for example, in the heating sector, in drying technology and in heat supply in municipal and industrial heat networks. The heat pumps use the natural refrigerant CO₂ - technical designation R744 – which is particularly notable for its classification into safety group A1 - low toxicity/non-flammable, i.e. no flame propagation – and for its favorable procurement. In addition, with a global warming potential (GWP) value of 1, it has an extremely low impact on the earth's atmosphere compared to conventional refrigerants and corresponds in the context of heat pump applications, is in line with the "Zero Carbon Transition as a Service" mission that the French ENGIE Group, the parent company of ENGIE Refrigeration, has set itself. With this in mind, ENGIE Refrigeration plans to further expand its heat pump division at the Lindau site on Lake Constance in the coming years, as Hornung points out: "In the course of 2020, we will already revise our existing thermeco₂ heat pumps and align them even more closely to current and future market requirements."

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