After falling in 2023 and 2024, Europe’s heat pump market turned around in 2025. Preliminary figures from the European Heat Pump Association put residential sales across 16 countries at about 2.62 million units, up from 2.38 million a year earlier. Twelve of the sixteen markets grew, and Europe’s installed base has reached roughly 28 million heat pumps.
The growth followed policy. The UK rose 27% to 125,000 units on the back of the Boiler Upgrade Scheme and its new Warm Homes plan. Belgium grew 7% to 111,000 after new restrictions on fossil heating and a VAT cut on heat pumps in new buildings. In Germany heat pumps made up almost half of all heat generators sold, a record. Poland and France fell, which EHPA linked to disinformation and to uncertain support budgets.
Adoption is still very uneven. Norway, Finland and Sweden sell more than 30 heat pumps per 1,000 households each year; Poland and the UK sell fewer than five. EHPA’s director general Paul Kenny called on governments to cut taxes on heat pumps and electricity and to keep support stable.
The pipe behind the heat pump
Every heat pump needs a distribution system, and most new installations pair it with underfloor heating or upgraded radiators running at low temperatures. That is where multilayer pipe earns its place: the aluminium layer blocks oxygen from entering the water and holds the pipe’s shape in tight loops, while the plastic layers resist corrosion and scale.
For importers, the lesson from 2025 is that demand follows subsidy rules country by country. Markets with stable support, like the UK and Belgium last year, are where floor-heating pipe volumes are most likely to grow next.
The SUSLiD view
Heat pump growth is concentrated where policy is stable. If you distribute in the UK, Belgium or Germany, ask us about PE-RT/AL/PE-RT and PEX-AL-PEX in 16 × 2.0 and 20 × 2.0 mm in 200 m coils for floor heating.
Source: Heat pump sales show EU focus on electricity tax is right call · European Heat Pump Association (EHPA), 2026-03-26
