The boiler market in France

The boiler market is part of the HVAC engineering category. HVAC engineering is a business with a strong focus on sustainable development and energy savings, since its aim is to develop solutions for regulating the temperature of business premises or homes. Because of the stakes involved, HVAC engineering, and therefore the boiler segment, is linked to renewable energies (solar, biomass, condensing boilers, biogas, etc.).

The market is largely influenced by growing ecological concerns, as well as the ever-increasing cost of energy to heat homes. The sector is also largely dependent on the public sphere and policies that can stimulate the use of more environmentally-friendly energy solutions.

Gas and oil condensing boilers are driving sales in the domestic market. By 2022, however, sales are set to decline, not least because of this particular segment.

In terms of foreign trade, France is largely in deficit, and this deficit is widening all the time (the coverage rate has fallen below 5%).

France's boiler market is also increasingly influenced by government measures to promote energy-efficiency renovations, which are steering the boiler market towards new product forms (notably high-performance boilers and biomass boilers). As a result, certain segments of the market could disappear altogether in the next decade, forcing players to reshape the structure of the market and renew their offering and positioning.

Innovation therefore represents a real growth driver for the market. with a renewed, ever more connected and intelligent offering, boilers should be able to manage energy consumption levels even more precisely and appropriately, an economic as well as an ecological advantage.