Ideal Heating unveils plans for industry-leading R&D centre

Ideal heating R&D facility

Ideal Heating has submitted plans for a new £10m research and development facility at its UK headquarters in Hull. The UK Technology Centre will play a key role in developing and testing low carbon heating solutions, such as air source heat pumps.

The proposed facility forms part of a wider £60m investment programme by Ideal Heating across the Hull site to increase manufacturing and distribution capacity and accommodate heat pump production and warehousing.

Ideal Heating is also investing in a new National Training & Technology Centre at Bridgehead business park in East Yorkshire, with a focus on low-carbon heating and up-skilling thousands of boiler installers across the UK to supply heat pumps to customers.

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