The production has started with an extensive air-to-water heat pump facility that belongs to Panasonic Heating & Ventilation Air conditioning Czech, SRO. The company says that the site will respond to the growing demand on the European market.
Panasonic Heating and Ventilation Air conditioning Czech, SRO (PHVACCZ) has started activities in a production facility for air to water heat pump in Czech Republic.
The site is an expansion of the Panasonic factory in the city of Pilsen, which set the company for the first time in 1996. It started to produce heat pumps in 2018, whereby the new floor almost triples the available production area to 140,000 m².
Panasonic said in a statement that the European market for air to water heat pump will see a steady growth in the medium to long term, whereby the expansion of the factory has been designed to meet this growing demand.
The new facility is currently implementing 80 robots, making an increased production capacity possible from 150,000 units to a maximum of around 700,000. It also produces the key components – including Outdoor unit casing, air heat exchangers, copper pipes and printed printed circuit boards, in-house with a target production speed of around 70% for these core components.
The factory wants to achieve 100% unmanned operation in the component process, while the automation percentage in the assembly process is doubled compared to current levels, by 2028.
The latest expansion follows the implementation of a research and development department department last year. By the end of the year, the factory works to zero CO2 emissions, says Panasonic, including work to install a 1 MW solar energy system and the introduction of skylights to improve natural lighting in the new building.
Panasonic announced for the first time to scale up his heat pump output in the Czech Republic 2022 As part of plans to introduce The air-water heat pumps, which naturally use R290 coolant to the European market.
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