In Short : The funding from President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act and the Defence Production Act also includes funding to increase R1234yf production at Honeywell’s Geismar facility.
In Detail : USA : Mitsubishi Electric US is to receive $50m in funding from the US Department of Energy to establish a heat pump compressor factory in Kentucky.
The funding is part of a $169m package announced by the US Department of Energy (DOE) for heat pump manufacturing projects by nine companies across 15 US sites. It also includes $33m to to boost heat pump production at three York International facilities.
The funding from President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act and the Defence Production Act also includes funding to increase R1234yf production at Honeywell’s Geismar facility.
The DOE says the selected projects are part of the US government’s efforts to build a clean energy economy, create jobs, improve air quality, reduce energy bills and reduce energy resilience on foreign adversaries. In total, the projects are expected to create over 1,700 jobs.
Heating and cooling buildings, homes, offices, schools, hospitals, military bases, and other critical facilities account for more than 35% of all US energy consumption.
Armstrong International
Federal funding of $5,083,719 has been pledged to add an extra 29,000ft2 to Armstrong International’s facility at Three Rivers, Michigan, for the manufacture of industrial heat pumps.
Bard Manufacturing
Bard Manufacturing will receive $9,208,605 to expand its Madison, Georgia, facility to produce wall-mounted single package vertical unit (SPVU) air conditioners and heat pumps. The expansion will include equipment for additional fabrication capacity and assembly equipment for a new heat pump line.
Copeland
A Copeland project to increase production of high efficiency 1.5t to 40t heat pump compressors and hydronic systems will receive $11,488,975.
Investments will happen across four of Copeland’s manufacturing locations – Sidney (Ohio), Ava and Lebanon (Missouri) and Cudahy (Wisconsin) – and suppliers in several states. Ava will increase the capacity to machine main bearing housings for a new product line of residential heat pump compressors as well as investments in tooling expansion at Copeland’s supplier facilities to expand production of the same new product line.