Offenbach am Main, December 8, 2025 Danfoss GmbH (Danfoss Germany) has been awarded the German Sustainability Award 2025 within the Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning category. The jury recognized the company as a pioneer in a transformation that combines ecological responsibility with economic success in the HVAC industry.
Offenbach am Main, December 8, 2025 Danfoss GmbH (Danfoss Germany) has been awarded the German Sustainability Award 2025 within the Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning category. The jury recognized the company as a pioneer in a transformation that combines ecological responsibility with economic success in the HVAC industry.
As highlighted by the Jury, Danfoss is being honored for its consistent commitment to making decarbonization, energy efficiency, and resource conservation central to its corporate strategy, demonstrating how ecological responsibility and economic success go hand in hand.
We see decarbonization as an economic opportunity – for us, our customers, and the entire industry. By reducing energy consumption and emissions with our solutions, we also lower costs, increase resilience, and provide our customers with a competitive edge. Strong climate action and economic growth are not mutually exclusive – they reinforce each other.
Decarbonization, energy efficiency, and resource conservation form the foundation not only for a climate friendly future, but also for more resilient, efficient, and economically viable business models. A core principle at Danfoss: Solutions are first implemented within the company before being scaled to customer projects.
Waste heat as a core pillar of the decarbonization strategy
The results of our core principles are tangible: In Denmark and Germany, Danfoss already covers 100% of the electricity needs at its own sites with renewable sources, and the first large production facilities in China also operate entirely on green electricity. The company is equally committed to utilizing waste heat. Excess heat from production processes, cooling systems, and data centers is recovered and used as a low carbon heat source through intelligent control technology, heat pumps, and – where possible – district heating networks, avoiding the need to generate additional energy.
At the headquarters in Nordborg, Denmark, recovered waste heat already makes a crucial contribution to the Nordborg campus’ CO₂ neutrality. Globally, Danfoss is targeting CO₂ neutrality across all business areas by 2030, with 80% of products designed to be circular by that time. This demonstrates that sustainability can be a core driver of economic competitiveness. “Decarbonization is not a cost factor, but a competitive advantage,” says Niels Behrensen, Managing Director of Danfoss Germany.
Nordborg: CO₂-neutral operations achieved in 2022
A key example is the headquarters in Nordborg, Denmark, where Danfoss reached carbon neutrality in 2022. On the headquarter campus, energetically modernized existing buildings meet new, highly efficient constructions. Heat pumps, waste heat utilization, sector coupling, intelligent control technology, and digital energy management are used. Nordborg serves worldwide as a reference project for how an industrial site can significantly reduce its emissions while remaining competitive.
Offenbach and Hamburg: Innovation sites and living laboratories for energy efficiency
Danfoss GmbH is headquartered in Offenbach am Main, where the contemporary Kaiserlei office building serves as a showcase for energy efficient building technology and a real world application of the company’s own solutions. The Hamburg site in HafenCity operates as a technology and innovation hub for the urban energy transition and heat networks. It combines technological development with a strong network of energy suppliers, municipal utilities, port authorities, and industrial partners – making it a strategic center for developing and scaling urban decarbonization.
The German Sustainability Award 2025 honors companies that demonstrate, through concrete projects, how the transformation to a climate neutral economy can succeed. Danfoss shows how decarbonization, energy efficiency, and economic viability can be systematically combined – an approach the company implements at its own sites.