Press_release_Daikin_Kings_Inspiration_Journey_2025 kicked_off_in_Krakow
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Kraków, Vienna, 16 October 2025 – Celebrating partnership and innovation Daikin Central Europe proudly hosted the Daikin Kings Inspiration Journey 2025 at Kraków’s iconic Fabryczna Office Park, a vibrant urban complex transformed from a historic vodka distillery into a symbol of modern sustainability. Bringing together installer and distributor companies from 16 countries, this prestigious event set the stage for inspiration, collaboration, and celebration under the motto ‘Partnership is key’.
Six award categories
Daikin’s award program celebrates leading partner companies – the Daikin Kings – in Central Europe across six categories, including highest overall turnover, highest turnover in heating, highest customer satisfaction, newcomer of the year, most impressive reference project, and a special award.
Daikin Kings 2025 at the Inspiration Journey in Kraków, copyright Daikin Central Europe
Partnership is key
Now in its seventh edition, the Daikin Kings Inspiration Journey has evolved into a cornerstone of our partner engagement strategy. The 2025 event introduces a refreshed concept under the motto ‘partnership is key’, reflecting our commitment to co-creation, loyalty, and shared growth.
Hiroyasu Ishikawa, Managing Director Daikin Central Europe welcoming the Daikin Kings 2025, Copyrights Daikin Central Europe
“We congratulate this year’s winners of the Daikin Kings Award to their success and are proud to count them to our growing partner network. Their continuous efforts to bring sustainable heating, cooling, ventilation and refrigeration solutions to market are key for our success and our vision to decarbonize the building sector. As a leading global HVAC-R company with a strong R&D presence and 12 production sites in Europe, our installer and distribution partners play an important role on this regards”, welcomed Hiroyasu Ishikawa, Managing Director of Daikin Central Europe, the award winners. As patron of the Daikin Kings Inspiration Journey, he joined Daikin’s leadership team to strengthen partnerships at the event.
This year, around 100 guests joined the program, including Daikin executives and award-winning partners. For networking and recognition activities, Daikin chose the stunning Fabryczna Office Park in Kraków, Poland, as the event venue.
Fabryczna Office Park, an outstanding Daikin reference
“Hosting the Daikin Kings Inspiration Journey 2025 at one of Daikin Poland’s stunning reference projects, the Fabryczna Office Park, was a honor. This urban complex, featuring modern offices and the Mercure Fabryczna Hotel with state-of-the-art conference facilities, holds a BREEAM Outstanding certification. Daikin played a key role here by designing and providing energy efficient HVAC solutions for heating, cooling, and ventilation. During a building tour, partners saw firsthand our expertise in both modernizing and decarbonizing sites with historical requirements,” says Igor Skelin, Managing Director of Daikin Poland.
The Fabryczna Office Park project – developed on the historic site of the former Polmos vodka distillery, a location with nearly a century of history – showcases how old industrial architecture can be seamlessly integrated with contemporary design and state-of the art climate solutions, giving the complex its distinctive character. Daikin delivered a comprehensive HVAC solution that includes VRV IV heat recovery systems, VRV heat pumps systems, SkyAir units, fan coils, and BACnet IP controls across 90,000 m² of office and hotel space.
Fabryczna Office Park, an outstanding Daikin reference, copyright Daikin Central Europe
Daikin VRV systems enable top-level sustainability certification
Daikin’s VRV systems were essential for Fabryczna Office Park to achieve a BREEAM Outstanding certification. With features such as precise temperature and humidity control, high energy efficiency, low noise levels, refrigerant leak detection, and smart electricity consumption management, Daikin delivered advanced climate solutions that support sustainable building design and operation.
Facts about Fabryczna Office Park
- 7 office buildings B1, B2, B3, B4, B5, B6, B7 (under construction)
- Cross leasable area 90,000 m² (including B7)
- 4-start hotel Mercure Kraków Fabryczna with 195 hotel rooms
- Investor: F.R.B. INTER-BUD Sp. z o.o. Sp. k.
- Designer: IMB ASYMETRIA – ARCHITECTURE & PLANING
- HVAC Installation designer: TEQUM
- BREEAM Consultant: JW+A
- Daikin consultants: Krzysztof Michalak, Mateusz Malota
Copyrights pictures: Daikin
About
100+ years Daikin
The story of Daikin has always been shaped by groundbreaking ideas, technological innovations, and dedicated people. It began in 1924 when the young Japanese engineer Akira Yamada founded an enterprise in Osaka to manufacture aircraft radiators with a 15-member team. More than 100 years later, the Daikin Industries group brings future-proof solutions for heating, cooling, ventilation, air purification, and refrigeration (HVAC-R) to global markets. 103,500 employees in 173 countries continue the company's legacy of leading technologies to advance low carbon heating and cooling, while ensuring the highest level of comfort.
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Daikin Industries Ltd.
Daikin Industries is a global leader in heat pump, air conditioning and air filtration technology, employing more than 103,500 people. Founded in Osaka in 1924, it is the only manufacturer in the world that develops and manufactures HVAC-R equipment, compressors and refrigerants in-house. Daikin has been recognized as one of the world’s top 100 most innovative companies by Clarivate (UK) and LexisNexis (USA) for its leadership in technology research and intellectual property patents. For its fiscal year 2024 (1 April 2024 – 31 March 2025) Daikin reported a record sales result of 28,98 billion euro sales.
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Daikin Europe N.V.
The Daikin Europe group is a leading provider of heating, cooling, ventilation, air purification and refrigeration technology across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Daikin Europe caters to a diverse customer base within the region by designing, manufacturing, and marketing an extensive range of products, maintenance services, and turnkey solutions tailored for residential, commercial, and industrial applications. The group employs over 13,800 people across more than 56 subsidiaries and operates 15 manufacturing sites in Europe (12), Turkey (1) and the Middle East (2). Refrigeration products from Daikin include the brands Daikin, Tewis, Zanotti, Hubbard, and AHT. Headquartered in Ostend, Belgium, for over 50 years, the Daikin Europe group is a subsidiary of Daikin Industries Ltd.
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Daikin Airconditioning Central Europe
Daikin Airconditioning Central Europe, founded in 1999 with its headquarters in Vienna, Austria, operates as a subsidiary of Daikin Europe. Its portfolio includes products and total solutions for heating, cooling, ventilation, air purification, and refrigeration in residential, commercial, and industrial settings. With over 700 employees and 3,400 partners, the company manages sales and service activities across 16 countries in Central and Eastern Europe, including Austria, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Kosovo, Montenegro, Moldova, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Slovenia.
With 'Your Daikin World' at the Vienna headquarters and the 'Daikin Inspiration Park' in Warsaw, the HVAC-R industry and the construction sector have access to two state-of-the-art B2B-experience centers for co-creating customized solutions for hotels, retail, offices, and large commercial applications. Daikin runs ten out of 141 B2B-training centers across the EMEA region in the CE-region. Consumers and homeowners receive consultations at four B2C-Experience centers in Vienna, Belgrade, Bratislava and Budapest.
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Media contact
Doris Passler
Manager Corporate Communications Central Europe
Daikin Airconditioning Central Europe HandelsgmbH
Lemböckgasse 59/1/1, 1230 Vienna, Austria
T: +43 (0) 664 24 56 444
M: passler.d@daikin.at
