Aira to invest €300m towards new European heat pump factory

Stuart Stone
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Swedish clean tech firm expects to produce up to half a million heat pumps at former Volvo factory in Wroclaw

Aira is to inject €300m into a project to transform a former Volvo car factory in Poland into a new facility capable of producing 500,000 heat pumps a year, the Swedish green heating firm announced today....

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