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Daikin Europe: Heat pumps, HVAC equipment and building interfaces

Daikin Europe supplies heating, cooling and refrigeration systems, including Altherma heat pumps and interfaces for building controls.

Summary

Best for
Heating and cooling projects needing matched equipment, controls and a European installer and service network.
Less suited to
Assuming every Altherma unit has the same Modbus connection or that a building interface replaces the heat-pump controller.
Deployment
Equipment and controls installed on site, with optional interface hardware for compatible systems.
Data in
Heating-system states and temperatures via the compatible DCOM-LT/MB P1P2-to-Modbus interface.
Pricing
Equipment, options, installation and service are specified for each system.

Overview

Daikin Europe develops and supplies equipment for heating, cooling, ventilation, air purification and refrigeration. Its regional overview describes systems, maintenance and turnkey solutions for homes, commercial buildings and industry. In heating, the Altherma range supplies air-to-water heat pumps; commercial direct-expansion systems include the Sky Air and VRV families.

The manufacturing factsheet shows how those ranges reach different sites: the Ostend factory builds Altherma residential heat pumps, Sky Air and VRV commercial units, and commercial refrigeration equipment. Its wider refrigeration business includes AHT, Zanotti, Hubbard and Tewis. This combination of equipment lines and regional services gives a building owner access to both the plant and its long-term support.

Offering

Daikin Europe supplies air-conditioning and refrigeration systems alongside Altherma air-to-water heat pumps. Its company overview describes product development, manufacture, maintenance services and complete solutions for different building types. The system’s indoor unit, hot-water arrangement, control and installer support are separate elements of an operating installation.

For compatible heating controls, DCOM-LT/MB adds a communication interface. This is an optional device rather than a property of every Altherma unit. It connects the manufacturer’s P1P2 control network to a building system using Modbus RTU, giving an external monitoring system a route to defined values while the equipment retains its own heating control.

Technology

The DCOM-LT/MB reference manual documents a P1P2 connection on the heating-system side and an EIA-485 Modbus RTU interface on the supervisory side. The adapter, rather than the outdoor unit, acts as the Modbus device. Its input-register map and operating mode define the values available to a reader; the actual controller and connected system determine which values are meaningful.

This architecture separates local heating-system control from external monitoring. A designer can compare temperatures and operating states with the local display, while retaining the commissioned controller’s existing role. Other Daikin interfaces and heat-pump generations require their own compatibility information and cannot be assumed to share the DCOM register map.

Markets

The 2026 company update identifies installers, contractors, specifiers and service professionals as customers served through local Daikin companies across Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. Its residential equipment addresses space heating and hot water; commercial ranges address larger cooling, ventilation and refrigeration requirements. These applications differ in the equipment and service arrangements selected for each site.

The manufacturing factsheet describes 15 HVAC-R manufacturing sites across the wider EMEA region: 12 in Europe, one in Türkiye and two in the Middle East. Its sites produce different equipment families, so an organisation operating across several markets may encounter a mix of heating, cooling and refrigeration systems under the Daikin name.

Company

Daikin Europe N.V. was established in Ostend in 1972 as a subsidiary of Daikin Industries; the company history records the opening of the European assembly plant in 1973. The parent group began in Osaka in 1924. Daikin Europe developed from the first European production and administration base into a regional network of local sales, manufacturing and service companies.

In October 2025 Daikin announced the opening of its European research and development centre in Ghent. It describes a site for heat-pump, cooling and refrigeration development whose own installation combines VRV systems, air-handling equipment, Altherma and geothermal energy. The 2026 update reports more than 14,000 staff and 57 subsidiaries across the regional group.

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References

  1. About Daikin Europe (opens in a new tab)
  2. 100 years Daikin (opens in a new tab)
  3. Daikin integrated and sustainability reports 2026 (opens in a new tab)
  4. DCOM-LT/MB reference manual (opens in a new tab) (PDF)
  5. DCOM-LT/MB product information (opens in a new tab)
  6. Daikin manufacturing sites in the EMEA region (opens in a new tab) (PDF)
  7. Daikin Europe research and development centre in Ghent (opens in a new tab)

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