Pharmaceutical Heating & Hot Water Decarbonisation

The client required its heating and domestic hot water infrastructure to be decarbonised within a live pharmaceutical manufacturing environment. Existing fossil-fuel plant needed to be removed and replaced with low-carbon technologies, while maintaining heating and hot water services and avoiding disruption to production.

Emtec Climate Solutions delivered the complete heating and hot water decarbonisation package. Existing gas boilers, calorifiers and associated pipework were removed. A new cascade heating arrangement combining air-to-water and water-to-water heat pumps was installed, two rooftop AHUs were converted from LTHW coils to DX refrigerant coils served by external Daikin heat pumps, and the domestic hot water plant was replaced with two Mitsubishi Ecodan air source heat pumps and two new 300-litre cylinders. The works were carefully phased around the live production environment.

The project removed the site’s fossil-fuel heating and domestic hot water plant while maintaining full production continuity with zero downtime. The completed installation introduced low-carbon heating, DX AHU heating/cooling and heat-pump domestic hot water systems. Following the successful delivery, further work was instructed across additional client facilities.