Osaka, April 2025 – At the World Expo 2025 Osaka, which opened on 13 April, Daikin is hitting a home run, right by its global headquarters. The theme "Designing Future Society for Our Lives" resonates strongly with Daikin’s mission to provide a comfortable climate to people and contribute to a bright, sustainable future with its innovative technologies.
Air shaping our future
For over 100 years, it has been Daikin's mission to perfect the use of air for the well-being of people.
At the World Expo 2025 Osaka, the company is showcasing in various ways how Daikin is making the theme of comfort through air beneficial for society in the future. Find here what visitors can expect from Daikin:
Enjoy Japanese mountain air while dining at the SUIKUU restaurant with innovative Daikin technologies including:
- Daikin's unique ‘ceiling-supplied displacement ventilation air conditioning’.
- ‘Heat recovery ventilation’, the standard for restaurants of the future.
- World premiere of the ‘Thermometer of the Future’.
- ‘Dining That Travels Through Air’ allowing guests to enjoy a meal with comfortable air, recreating real-life spots from around the world.
Take a break from crowded places with relaxing comfort in the sustainably designed rest area of the Ice Cool Spot, inspired by traditional icehouses that stored ice throughout the year. This next-generation ‘ice thermal outdoor cool spot’ utilizes Daikin's ice thermal storage technology and solar energy to cool spaces with minimal energy requirements:
- Electricity generated by solar panels is stored in a storage battery.
- Some of the electricity from the battery is used to make ice at night when it is cooler outside.
- The rest area is cooled using radiant cooling from ice made the night before
Enjoy air and water spectacles at largest show area in Expo history:
- During the evening: Amazing show ‘Under the Midnight Rainbow’ featuring water, air, light, fire, video and music, sponsored by Daikin and Suntory.
- During daytime: Three ultimate shows are offered to entertain visitors: The ‘AR Parade of Air and Water’ and the ‘Symphony of Air and Water’ featuring approximately 300 fountains and music. At the ‘Synchronization of Air and Water’ show the race for a new Guiness World Record is set for visitors to interact with the fountains and control them.
For visitors from remote locations the Osaka-based companies Daikin and Suntory provide virtual experiences at the Virtual Expo 2025 Japan:
- The Water Showroom offers an immersive experience of water and air within the enchanted world of the "Under the Midnight Rainbow" water show, recreated for online visitors at the Yumeshima venue. Interactive elements enable visitors to participate in the story. By joining Ao, the main character, and her sidekick Dodo, the spirit of air and water, they can immerse themselves in being an island resident and gain a greater understanding of the importance of the bonds between water, air, and life. In doing so, they also learn how Daikin and Suntory view water and air as essential elements for a sustainable future.
- The Daikin Room offers two additional VR exhibits where people can experience the importance and possibilities of air firsthand: Visitors to Daikin Air Island are set on an enchanted island where invisible air becomes visible. They can experience the various types of air created by Daikin, including ‘air quality that improves exercise’ and ‘air that promotes mental concentration.’ In the Daikin air factory, visitors join Pichonkun on a paper airplane and playfully experience how comfortable air is delivered to the world.
For more info on Daikin’s presence at Expo 2025 and its vision on the value and possibilities of air, please visit: www.daikin.com/air/daikin_achievements/expo2025
Daikin Expo 2025 VR exhibits: https://www.expo2025.or.jp/en/future-index/virtual/virtual-site/
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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. Today, 100 years later, the Daikin Industries Ltd. group brings future-proof solutions for heating, cooling, ventilation, air purification, and refrigeration to global markets. More than 98,000 employees in 175 countries continue the company's legacy of leading technologies to advance low carbon heating and cooling, while ensuring the highest level of comfort. For its fiscal year 2023 the global Daikin Group reported a record sales result of € 28 billion sales (1 April 2023 – 31 March 2024).
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Daikin Industries Ltd.
Daikin Industries is a worldwide leader in heat pump, air conditioning, and air filtration technology, employing more than 98,000 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 2023 (April 1, 2023 – March 31, 2024), the Daikin reported a record sales result of €28 billion.
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Daikin Europe N.V.
The Daikin Europe Group is a leading provider of heating, cooling, ventilation, air purification and refrigeration (HVAC-R) technology across Europe, Middle East, and Africa. Daikin designs, manufactures, and offers customers a broad portfolio of products, maintenance services, and turnkey solutions for residential, commercial, and industrial applications. The group currently employs over 13,800 people across more than 59 subsidiaries and operates 14 manufacturing sites in Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Spain, Austria, the United Kingdom, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. 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,' the HVAC-R industry and the construction sector have access to two state-of-the-art B2B-experience centers for co-creating tailor-made solutions for hotels, retail, offices, and large commercial applications. Across the CE-region Daikin runs 10 out of 116 B2B-trainings centers across Europe. Consumers and homeowners receive consultations at four B2C-Experience centers in Vienna, Belgrade, Bratislava and Budapest.
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Doris Passler
Manager Corporate Communications Central Europe
Daikin Airconditioning Central Europe HandelsgmbH
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