Brussels, 11 April 2025 – At the upcoming World Expo 2025 in Osaka, Kansai, which opens on 13 April, Daikin is hitting a home run, right by its global headquarters. The theme of the Osaka, Kansai World Expo, "Designing Future Society for Our Lives", resonates strongly with Daikin’s mission to provide a comfortable climate to people and contribute to a bright, sustainable future with its innovative technologies.
Legacy in Osaka
A century ago, Daikin was founded in the Japanese city of Osaka and has since grown into a global leader in heating, cooling, ventilation, air purification and refrigeration (HVAC-R).
The theme of the Osaka, Kansai World Expo, ‘Designing Future Society for Our Lives’, resonates strongly with Daikin’s mission to provide a comfortable climate to people, creating a bright, sustainable future with its innovative technologies.
Air shaping our future
With the aim of perfecting the air, Daikin is shaping the future of air and showcasing it for everyone to experience at the World Expo 2025 in a variety of ways.
Air that sustains life and connects to the future begins at Daikin.
Improved dining experience at restaurants:
Japanese mountain air – inspired SUIKUU restaurant
Daikin's unique ‘ceiling-supplied displacement ventilation air conditioning’
‘Heat recovery ventilation’, the standard for restaurants of the future
World premiere of the ‘Thermometer of the Future’
‘Dining That Travels Through Air’ allows you to enjoy a meal with comfortable air, recreating real-life spots from around the world
Providing comfort in crowded spaces: The natural ice cool spot
Inspired by traditional icehouses, Daikin’s next-generation ice thermal outdoor cool spot offers a sustainable way to cool rest areas in busy environments. Using ice thermal storage technology and solar power, it delivers comfort with minimal energy use:
- Electricity generated by solar panels is stored in a storage battery.
- Some of the electricity from the battery is used to make ice at night when it is cool.
- The rest area is cooled using radiant cooling from ice made the night before.
This innovative solution ensures energy-efficient comfort, even in the heat of large public gatherings.
Air and water spectacles at largest-ever show area in Expo history
Evening “Under the Midnight Rainbow” show featuring water, air, light, fire, video and music
Daytime entertainment with “The AR Parade of Air and Water” show and the “A Symphony of Air and Water” show featuring approximately 300 fountains and music.
A new Guinness World Record was set (for the ability to interact with fountains of this scale) at the “A Synchronization of Air and Water” show where visitors can amazingly control the fountains.
Virtual Expo that can be enjoyed from remote locations
- Water Showroom: An immersive adventure of water and air where you can experience the enchanted world and content of the “Under the Midnight Rainbow” water show at online spaces within the Yumeshima venue.
- Underneath the enchanting scenery of a rainbow on a moonlit night, visitors will experience the world of the show more profoundly by joining Ao, the main character, and her sidekick Dodo, the spirit of air and water, in taking part in a festival inhabited with wonderous living creatures. Not only will the site recreate the production of the actual show in virtual space, but it will also incorporate interactive elements that enable visitors to participate in the story. As viewers further immerse themselves in the experience of being an island resident, they will start to gain a greater appreciation for the importance of the bonds between water, air and life itself.
- Through this VR venue, people from around the world can transcend the limits of time and space and be a part of Expo 2025 while learning how the two Osaka-based companies Daikin and Suntory view air and water, elements that are essential for sustaining the future.
- Daikin Room offers two VR exhibits where people experience firsthand the importance and possibilities of air:
- Daikin Air Island is set on an enchanted island where invisible air becomes visible, and visitors can experience the various types of air created by Daikin, including ‘air that improves exercise’ and ‘air that promotes mental concentration.’
- Daikin Air Factory: Ride a paper airplane with Pichonkun and experience a game where you deliver comfortable air to the world.
For more info on Daikin’s presence at Expo 2025 and its vision on the value and possibilities of air, please visit: www.daikin.com/air/daikin_achievements/expo2025
Daikin Expo 2025 VR exhibits: https://www.expo2025.or.jp/en/future-index/virtual/virtual-site/
About Daikin Europe N.V.
The Daikin Europe group is the leading provider of heating, cooling, ventilation, air purification and refrigeration (HVAC-R) technology in Europe, Middle East, and Africa. Daikin designs, manufactures, and offers customers a broad portfolio of products, maintenance services as well as turnkey solutions for residential, commercial, and industrial purposes. To date, Daikin Europe has over 13,800 employees across more than 59 subsidiaries. It has 14 manufacturing sites in Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Spain, Austria, the United Kingdom, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Headquartered in Ostend (Belgium) for over 50 years, the Daikin Europe group is a subsidiary of the global group Daikin Industries.
About Daikin Industries Ltd.
Daikin Industries (DIL) is a worldwide leader in heat pump, air conditioning, and air filtration technology with more than 98,000 employees. Founded in Osaka in 1924, it is the only manufacturer in the world that develops and manufactures heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration equipment, as well as compressors and refrigerants in-house. Daikin was named one of the world’s top 100 most innovative companies by Clarivate (UK) and LexisNexis (USA), recognized for its leadership in technology research and intellectual property patents. For its fiscal year 2023 Daikin reported a record sales result of € 28 billion sales (1 April 2023 – 31 March 2024).
Media Contacts Daikin Europe N.V.
Sofie Sap – T.: +32 472 580 482 Mail: sap.s@daikineurope.com
Daisuke Kakinaga – T.: +32 465 462 321 Mail: kakinaga.d@bxl.daikineurope.com
