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Panasonic opens new UK office

Enrique Vilamitjana cuts the ribbon to open the new offices

UK: Panasonic has officially opened its new UK head office in Welwyn Garden City.

The move to new premises follows the amalgamation of Panasonic and AMP, the UK air conditioning distributor it acquired in 2017, to form PHVAC – Panasonic Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning Ltd.

The new 700m2 offices at 3 Albany Place, Broadwater Road, were officially opened by Panasonic Heating & Cooling Solutions Europe MD Enrique Vilamitjana.

Jose Manuel Alves, UK Country Manager for Panasonic commented that the new dedicated premises were “intelligently designed to provide an advanced technological space” for the needs of both its heating and cooling teams. 

“In addition to providing our customers with full access to our technical resources, including the in-house spec team expertise and software, technical support, design software tools and smart cloud service solutions, we will be providing training courses and a valuable location for meetings,” he added.

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