Ideal Heating honoured with King’s Award for leading industry transformation

Ideal Heating has received the UK’s most prestigious business honour in recognition of our pioneering approach to industry transformation.

We’ve been named as a recipient of The King’s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category, recognising our comprehensive, end-to-end heat pump delivery package that is reshaping how the UK adopts low carbon heating technology.

It’s our fourth King’s/Queen’s Award, having previously received three Queen’s Awards – for Innovation in 2013, and for both Innovation and International Trade in 2019 – underlining our status as one of the UK’s most forward-thinking and successful manufacturers.

CEO Adam Foy said: “Receiving The King’s Award for Enterprise is a great honour and an incredibly proud moment for us.

“As a major UK manufacturer with a proud history and heritage, we’re delighted to receive this royal recognition for how we’re shaping the transition to heat pumps across the UK.

“The King’s Award reflects the scale of ambition and commitment our team has shown in transforming not just our own business, but in leading the evolution of the wider UK heating industry.”

When the UK Government legislated net zero greenhouse gas emissions targets in 2019, we recognised that our entire business model required revolutionary change. We conceived and built an entirely new delivery infrastructure, addressing every barrier to heat pump adoption in a single, integrated solution.

This includes the UK’s largest heat pump training network, including a flagship £2.2m National Training and Technology Centre, and the UK’s first government-recognised and funded Skills Bootcamp programme, which has enabled thousands of installers to train free of charge.

Training and Design Services Director Andrew Johnson added: “We identified early on that the market required a whole package to give installers the skills and confidence to succeed, and give consumers the reliability and support they expect.

“That’s exactly what we’ve built and this award is a great validation of that vision.”

Our dedicated heat pump customer service team resolves more than 70 per cent of issues remotely, saving more than 30,000 miles of engineer travel and preventing over 9,000kg of CO2 emissions.

Underpinning it all is a £60m programme of investment in new manufacturing, distribution and research and development facilities across our headquarters site in Hull, as we transition towards low carbon heating solutions.

New facilities include a state-of-the-art UK Technology Centre, providing the world-class R&D capability to develop, test and refine the next generation of heating products.

The King’s Awards for Enterprise has honoured more than 8,000 companies since its inception in 1965. Winners hold the award for five years and pass a robust assessment process judged by experts from industry, academia, the voluntary sector and senior Whitehall officials. Recipients are recommended by the Prime Minister and approved by His Majesty The King.

Jim Dick OBE, the Lord Lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire, said: “I am delighted to congratulate Ideal Heating, based in Hull, on receiving The King’s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category.

“This latest honour, following the company’s success in winning the award on three previous occasions, in 2013 and twice in 2019, recognises Ideal Heating’s continued commitment to innovation, excellence and growth.

“It reflects the strength of Hull as a centre for forward‑thinking manufacturing. Ideal Heating’s sustained success is richly deserved and is something of which the whole region can be proud.”