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Daikin success at H&V News Awards

UK: Daikin’s Sky Air A series range of R32 air conditioners completed a hat-trick of awards on Thursday night, being named Air Movement Product of the Year in the H&V News Awards.

The event, hosted by comedian Sean Lock at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel, saw Daikin beat eight other shortlisted companies to the award.

The Sky Air A series, which uses the lower GWP refrigerant R32, claims energy efficiencies of up to A++ and SEER up to 7.7.

Introduced last year, the new Sky Air series subsequently won the Air Conditioning Innovation category at the Cooling Industry Awards and Energy Efficient Product of the Year HVACR at the Energy Awards 2017.

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