2024-07-01 02:44:21
The warmth pump producer Viessmann is sending its workers on short-time work from July 1. Is the Heating Act the rationale for the austerity measure?
Following Vaillant and Stiebel Eltron, the warmth pump producer Viessmann now additionally has to place its workers on short-time work. Based on the corporate, round 4,000 workers on the Allendorf/Eder website in Hesse are affected. They work within the manufacturing of heating gadgets and warmth pumps.
In the intervening time, the cost-cutting measure is proscribed to July and August. “Additional choices on using short-time work will likely be made relying in the marketplace state of affairs. The works settlement concluded affords planning safety for a interval of 1 12 months,” stated Vanessa Ante, Head of Communications at Viessmann, to the “Hessische/Niedersächsische Allgemeine” (HNA).
The rationale for that is the “headwind” in Europe. However, Viessmann is “satisfied that the long-term development in direction of electrification and sustainability affords an unprecedented alternative and that we’re ideally positioned for this development.”
Opponents Vaillant and Stiebel Eltron took this step in Could. Additionally they introduced short-time work. After the debates concerning the federal authorities’s heating regulation, customers are feeling unsure.
In consequence, many individuals nonetheless purchased a fuel or oil heating system on the finish of 2023 as an alternative of counting on the extra sustainable expertise. Demand for warmth pumps collapsed drastically. Based on the Federal Affiliation of the German Heating Business (BDHI), within the first quarter of 2024 customers purchased solely half as many warmth pumps as in the identical quarter of the earlier 12 months. Gross sales of warmth turbines fell general from 81,500 to 65,500.
Viessmann Local weather Options in Allendorf has been a part of the American group Provider since January. The listed US firm is without doubt one of the largest producers of refrigeration programs, cooling and air-con expertise on this planet.