De Dietrich develops its production of heat pumps in Alsace

Batirama.com 15/11/20180

The BDR Thermea BDR heating engineer (Dietrich brand) will invest 50 million euros and create around 100 jobs in three years in its Mertzwiller (Bas-Rhin) factory to develop its production of heat pumps.

This plan continues to reorient the site of 800 employees to other activities than boilers at Fioul whose company notes the drop in demand, regardless of the government's announcement of their scheduled abandonment over ten years.

The investment aims to increase by 175% (almost a triple) the turnover of BDR Thermea in heat pumps by 2021, announced the French subsidiary, on the occasion of the inauguration of theMertzwiller spare parts.

It includes a new production line which will come into service at the beginning of next year, completed ThierryLeroy, president of BDR Thermea France. Il s'accompagne de la création d'une centaine d'emplois en trois ans, dont les deux tiers dans la recherche et le développement (R&D), a exposé M.Leroy.

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Les effectifs du centre de R&D passeront de 36 à 100 personnes et les ateliers de production poursuivront "le rythme d'une dizaine d'embauches par an" tenu depuis 2016.The heat pump market "is in full expansion", unlike fuel oil boilers, another specialty of Mertzwiller, whose demand has dropped for several years, said M.Leroy.

Fioul boilers have become minority in the activity of the factory, of which "more than 50% of growth will come in 2019 heat pumps and thermodynamic water heaters", said M.Leroy.They "remain the solution" for many households, he said, however, in response to the intention of the French government to suppress them within ten years.

The Mertzwiller site also manufactures gas boilers and domestic hot water preparers.Heir to the local industrial dynasty of Dietrich, it belongs to BDR Thermea, group of 6.300 employees and 1.7 billion euros in turnover last year, which has come since 2009 from the merger between De Dietrich and its British and Dutch colleagues Remeha.

Source: Batirama.com