The core prin­ci­ples behind Oilon’s range of solu­tions are to improve energy effi­ciency, reduce cus­tomers’ need for energy, and promote the tran­si­tion towards cleaner energy sources. Com­bined heating and cooling, which is achieved with indus­trial heat pumps, rep­re­sents this ideal per­fectly: we extract heat from where it causes prob­lems and trans­fer it to another loca­tion where it is needed.

For example, cooling the servers in a data center gen­er­ates waste heat at a low tem­per­a­ture, which makes the energy dif­fi­cult to utilize. With heat pumps, this waste heat can be recov­ered and reused in space heating and domes­tic hot water heating or trans­ferred to a dis­trict heating network.

By using heat pumps for heating, com­mer­cial oper­a­tors, apart­ment build­ing owners, and house­holds can reduce their depen­dence on deliv­ered energy and their energy expenses. Even alone, heat pump-​powered heat recov­ery ven­ti­la­tion can gen­er­ate 40% savings in an apart­ment build­ing’s heating costs. Fur­ther­more, the energy required for the build­ing’s heating and domes­tic hot water system can be covered entirely with ground source heating. The solu­tion con­sumes only a quarter of the elec­tric­ity used by direct elec­tri­cal heating, helping house­holds with­stand even sharp fluc­tu­a­tions in elec­tric­ity prices.

In com­bus­tion tech­nol­ogy, Oilon focuses espe­cially on the clean­est pos­si­ble com­bus­tion and the use of cleaner and renew­able fuels. In ten years, Oilon has managed to reduce the nitro­gen oxide emis­sions of our gas burners by 80–90 per cent. Our latest Ultra Low NO_x burners achieve NO_x emis­sion levels as low as 2.5 ppm (5 mg/Nm³) while main­tain­ing an excel­lent effi­ciency.

Oilon’s stan­dard burners are suit­able for firing renew­able fuels, such as biogas and renew­able diesel. Addi­tion­ally, Oilon has decades of expe­ri­ence in firing pure hydro­gen and fuels with a high hydro­gen content. The world sees hydro­gen as a fuel of the future: it can be pro­duced with renew­able elec­tric­ity, and hydro­gen com­bus­tion is com­pletely free of CO2 emis­sions.

Main­tain­ing prof­itabil­ity is the basis and fun­da­men­tal require­ment of our respon­si­bil­ity. We seek rapid growth, 18 percent per year. Moti­vated per­son­nel and sat­is­fied cus­tomers are the cor­ner­stones of our busi­ness. We believe that we have the respon­si­bil­ity to create added value to our stake­hold­ers and the society.

Oilon has more than 400 employ­ees in offices and pro­duc­tion facil­i­ties around the globe. Our staff turnover is low. On average, our employ­ees stay with us for 9.6 years, and the longest careers have sur­passed 50 years in length. For Oilon, it is impor­tant that employ­ees enjoy their work and feel safe and com­fort­able in their posi­tions. We main­tain the skills and knowl­edge of our staff by arrang­ing train­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties and encour­ag­ing our employ­ees to com­ple­ment their edu­ca­tion. Work rota­tion within the group pro­vides new per­spec­tives and encour­ages team spirit.

Oilon allo­cates more than 6 per cent of our turnover to product devel­op­ment. Around 20 per cent of our employ­ees work in R&D. With new tech­nolo­gies, we help oper­a­tors in the man­u­fac­tur­ing indus­try and the energy sector make a gradual tran­si­tion to solu­tions which are based on renew­able elec­tric­ity.

Cleaner energy pro­duc­tion can lead to radical improve­ment in living con­di­tions. In China, for example, Oilon has helped dis­trict heating cus­tomers to tran­si­tion from coal to natural gas, elim­i­nat­ing nearly 100 per cent of the cus­tomers’ par­tic­u­late emis­sions and cutting nitro­gen oxide emis­sions to a frac­tion of the orig­i­nal. The largest reduc­tion for a single project was achieved through a burner upgrade, result­ing in a reduc­tion of around one million tonnes of CO2 per year.

Large prop­er­ties are typ­i­cally cooled with water chillers. Tra­di­tion­ally, the con­den­sa­tion heat from the chillers has been simply dumped into the atmos­phere. With Oilon heat pumps, waste heat from large build­ings such as hos­pi­tals can be trans­ferred to a dis­trict heating network, allow­ing the prop­erty to serve the com­mu­nity in another role: as an energy source. Overall, heat pumps are an excel­lent solu­tion for dis­trib­uted energy pro­duc­tion, improv­ing the flex­i­bil­ity of the entire energy network.

The Euro­pean Com­mis­sion aims at increas­ing the recy­cling rate of munic­i­pal waste to 72 per cent by 2030. From a waste man­age­ment stand­point, it is usually a better choice to utilize the remain­der of the waste in energy pro­duc­tion than to send it for final dis­posal at a land­fill. Oilon sup­plies load burners and start-​up burners for waste incin­er­a­tion plants. Addi­tion­ally, our burners are used at hazardous-​waste treat­ment facil­i­ties to destroy haz­ardous and envi­ron­men­tally dam­ag­ing waste in an envi­ron­men­tally friendly way.

Oilon’s prod­ucts are renowned for their high quality and dura­bil­ity. Almost all mate­ri­als used in our prod­ucts are recy­clable. Our product devel­op­ment empha­sizes dura­bil­ity, ease of main­te­nance, and usabil­ity.

We offer exten­sive ser­vic­ing and main­te­nance ser­vices through­out the product’s life cycle. For example, users can monitor their indus­trial heat pumps over a remote con­nec­tion. This speeds up trou­bleshoot­ing; often, equip­ment failure can be pre­vented alto­gether by fixing the problem before­hand.

Our indus­trial heat pumps and burners are con­trolled by advanced automa­tion systems. Thanks to our prod­ucts’ exten­sive capac­ity range, Oilon systems produce only as much energy as is needed. In burners, having a wide capac­ity range reduces the number of starts and stops required, which can reduce fuel con­sump­tion by more than 10 per cent.

In the long term, ground source heating is the most eco­nom­i­cally sus­tain­able and envi­ron­men­tally friendly heating solu­tion for build­ings. Com­pared to direct elec­tri­cal heating, a ground source heating system will typ­i­cally reduce a prop­erty’s heating costs by 65–75 per cent. Our house­hold heat pumps feature exten­sive mon­i­tor­ing and sched­ul­ing func­tions, allow­ing users to influ­ence their energy con­sump­tion directly and in a mea­sur­able way. In addi­tion, home­own­ers can connect a ground source cooling solu­tion to the heat pump’s ground cir­cu­la­tion, achiev­ing a COP as high as 20–30.

Oilon is com­mit­ted to the Science Based Targets ini­tia­tive (SBTi). The goal for this ini­tia­tive is to limit global tem­per­a­ture increase to 1.5 °C in accor­dance with the Paris Agree­ment. By 2030, Oilon intends to reduce both our own direct and indi­rect green­house gas emis­sions by at least 46 per cent. Our emis­sions in 2019 serve as the bench­mark.

The primary means of reach­ing our emis­sion reduc­tion targets include using ground source heating in pro­duc­tion facil­i­ties, uti­liz­ing solar power in pro­duc­tion, and invest­ing in upgrades that reduce the energy con­sump­tion of our prop­er­ties. We pursue these goals actively – right now, we are ahead of sched­ule.

Most of our pro­duc­tion facil­i­ties already utilize ground source heating and in 2022, our factory in Lahti will tran­si­tion to carbon-​neutral dis­trict heating. Since 2017, Oilon’s factory in Wuxi, China has had a solar power plant that pro­vides energy for pro­duc­tion machines. Two years later, a 110-kWp power plant was installed in our facil­ity in Lahti, Finland. This plant covers around 6–7 per cent of the factory’s power con­sump­tion. The rest of the elec­tric­ity used at our Finnish facil­i­ties has been EPD-​certified hydro­elec­tric power since 2020. Addi­tion­ally, we con­stantly monitor the use of our vehicle feet, and busi­ness travel is gov­erned by strict cri­te­ria.

Oilon engages in active co-​operation with cus­tomers, author­i­ties, and other stake­hold­ers. For example, devel­op­ing heat pump tech­nol­ogy and solu­tions requires tight co-​operation with cus­tomers. There are many renew­able fuels that have been intro­duced in the market only recently, which means that shared devel­op­ment projects with fuel man­u­fac­tur­ers provide valu­able infor­ma­tion for both parties.

One of the key goals in Oilon’s com­mu­ni­ca­tions is to increase our stake­hold­ers’ envi­ron­men­tal aware­ness and under­stand­ing of solu­tions that promote climate action. The tech­ni­cal capa­bil­i­ties of heat pumps increase at such a high rate that it’s hard to keep up with all the new ways of improv­ing energy effi­ciency and reduc­ing CO2 emis­sions – espe­cially in indus­trial processes and energy pro­duc­tion. A key com­po­nent of this com­mu­ni­ca­tion effort is the product train­ing pro­vided for pro­fes­sion­als in the energy sector. Oilon is also engaged in asso­ci­a­tion work that aims at pro­mot­ing wide-​spread adop­tion of envi­ron­men­tally friendly energy tech­nol­ogy.

In 2022, Oilon joined the Science Based Targets ini­tia­tive, placing Oilon among 3,000 pio­neer­ing com­pa­nies. More specif­i­cally, Oilon joined the ranks of the 1,000 orga­ni­za­tions whose goals are in line with the ini­tia­tive’s most ambi­tious 1.5 °C target for reduc­ing their emis­sion levels. Oilon’s pledge covers Green­house Gas Pro­to­col’s scope 1 and scope 2 emis­sions: reduc­ing direct emis­sions from our own oper­a­tions and indi­rect emis­sions from the gen­er­a­tion of pur­chased energy.

In addi­tion to SBTi, Oilon has joined the ABB Energy Effi­ciency Move­ment. Par­tic­i­pants form an inter­na­tional ecosys­tem, leading the way and serving as an example in the fight against climate change. ABB launched the inter­na­tional ini­tia­tive to promote activ­i­ties which reduce CO2 emis­sions. By pub­licly com­mit­ting to climate work, par­tic­i­pants raise aware­ness of climate change and encour­age others to act.