Central Heating New Zealand LTD

Firebird Heating Solutions & Central Heating New Zealand a true Partnership In 2001 the team at central Heating New Zealand travelled to Europe to visit potential partners. One of their first visits was to Firebird Heating Solutions based in Cork, Ireland. Firebird and Central Heating New Zealand immediately hit it off. Both shared the same enthusiasm, focus on the installer and homeowner, ambition for technical excellence and reliability, willingness to put the shoulder to the wheel and an agreed sense of fair play. This laid the ground for this great partnership from the very first day. Firebird became CHNZ’s first supplier and CHNZ became Firebird’s first customer outside of Ireland and the UK. The business has grown enormously because the teams in both businesses have continued to live by their initial commitments. Firebird have been designing and manufacturing liquid fuel boilers for 40 years. At the forefront of technology, Firebird Heating Solutions continues to develop innovative cost-effective, energy-efficient heating solutions that not only meet, but easily exceed today’s stringent legislative requirements. Over the 20 years, the partnership has seen boiler efficiencies increase from 70% to greater than 95% and with our new burner partner Elco, we have seen our boiler efficiency grow even further, move the oil boiler industry towards blue flame technology and our Nitrox Oxide (NOx) emissions have reduced by 70% to limits that are currently half the European limits. This ensures huge savings for the end user while ensuring we remain environmentally responsible. During 2017 the Firebird and CHNZ teams decided to develop a product that was exactly suited to the New Zealand market. Key attributes required were easy to install, easy to service, robust/reliable and a backup service second to none. This started an 18-month project where both companies continuously listened and learned from one another. Installers travelled from New Zealand to Cork and Italy for training. In 2017 the Firebird team travelled to New Zealand to listen and understand the New Zealand market. This bought a deeper understanding of issues important to CHNZ. In November 2019 Firebird travelled back to New Zealand to showcase the team’s new boiler. The team completed 9 roadshows across New Zealand to introduce this new CHNZ Diesel Boiler. This was warmly welcomed and has been a huge success to date. For CHNZ and Firebird the journey is only just beginning, even after 20 years. We will continue to increase efficiencies and reduce emissions. We wish Central Heating New Zealand all the best and look forward to developing this partnership even further into the future! ...... For more information, please visit our website www.firebird.ie CENTRAL HEAT ING NEW ZEALAND LTD efficient heating appliances supplied by Central Heating New Zealand to heat the water for these systems include the latest technology of gas, liquid fuel, and biomass (pellet, log and chip) boilers. As well as the refrigeration technology air to water heat pumps and high tech geothermal/ground source heat pumps. Lyall Smith, Director and Co-founder of Central Heating New Zealand, recounts the interesting origins of the business: “The company was incorporated in 2002 by my brother Lewis and myself from very small beginnings. We have Irish wives and when they came to New Zealand they felt very cold in our homes, so we needed to do something about that. The heating systems experienced in Europe and North America were amazing, so that was our obvious thought. New Zealand is not as cold as many other countries, but the homes are not heated well and are actually colder to live in. Although there has been some central heating, it was hard to attain and so I suppose we popularised it. That’s our claim to fame out of the last 18 years – making it more accessible.” Currently, about 98 percent of New Zealand homes have a singular heating appliance like a log fire or a split air to air heat pump that heats only the living room, and just two percent warm all or more of the house with central heating. One thing that holds people back is the perception that a full central heating system is expensive and is more than they need. But they have no experience to compare it to. That’s where education to shift priority comes in. Smith admits, “Our systems may seem expensive but we explain the value so they understand that it’s worth the investment, in the feeling and the health you get from central heating.” Central Heating New Zealand’s primary role is as a distributor to other companies across the country, providing bespoke designs and products for new and existing homes and the growing commercial segment of the market. James Steele,