Samsung opens Suwon EHS heat pump training centre
South Korea – Samsung Electronics has opened an EHS heat pump training facility at its CS Academy in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, as it prepares to increase domestic production for the South Korean market.
The centre is intended for Samsung’s B2B partners and installation engineers, with practical training based on systems configured to replicate field installations. The training rigs include hydronic pipework, hot water control equipment, thermal storage and alternating water tanks, underfloor-heating manifolds and fan-coil units.
Engineers can practise the installation sequence from pipework and product installation through to commissioning and service checks. Diagnostics training uses HASS, Samsung’s AI-based Home Appliances Smart Service programme. Instruction is provided by Samsung EHS installation personnel alongside external specialists with heat pump and hydronic-pipework experience.
The move adds installer and service capability alongside Samsung’s planned manufacturing expansion. Its EHS heat pump line at the second campus of the Gwangju plant entered trial production on 19 August. Samsung has said it plans to begin mass production in late September, with annual capacity expected to exceed 100,000 units, all allocated to the domestic market.
Samsung has previously run installer training in Jeju, where it said around 200 engineers received training in April 2026. This included thermal storage arrangements designed to convert surplus solar generation into stored heat.
The company is also evaluating its EHS heat pump in residential settings in Yangpyeong, Chungju and Namhae, covering space heating and domestic hot water performance and energy efficiency. Separately, Samsung is demonstrating its EHS All-in-One system at a detached house in Aewol-eup, Jeju, and assessing the system in an apartment-representative housing performance environment in Yongin.
EHS All-in-One combines air-to-air cooling with air-to-water underfloor heating and domestic hot water from one outdoor unit, while Samsung presents the EHS heat pump as an air source product for hydronic heating and hot water.
The Korean government has set an ambition to deploy 3.5 million high-efficiency heat pumps by 2035 as part of its heating-electrification policy.
