Roche engineers inspect first Enerin V12 high-temperature heat pump
Photographed outside the Enerin container housing the V6 HoegTemp™ industrial heat pump, installed in the biogas stream at IVAR Municipal Waste Water Treatment Plant, are (l-r): Roche Lead Energy Supply, Pascal Haegeli; Enerin Project Director, Nicolas Hall; Roche Process Engineer, Christoph Stirnimann; Roche Lead Operation, Markus Schnepf; Enerin Senior Engineer, Torgrim Aase; Roche Lead Steam Generation, Jan Stampfli; Enerin Executive Vice-President, Bjørn Arne Lundblad; Head of Site Infrastructure Engineering, Pascal Ruf; Enerin CCO, Ralph Groen; Peder Alvestad, Mandal Maskinering; Enerin Head of Concept Design, Trond-Atle Asphjell; and Roche Heat Pump Operations, Roger Imhof.
On 8 and 9 June 2026, the core project team, asset owners and key operations personnel from F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG (Roche) travelled to Norway to inspect the first-ever HoegTemp™ V12 high-temperature heat pump that Enerin has engineered and constructed for installation at the company’s Basel headquarters in Switzerland.
The delegation, led by Pascal Ruf, Head of Site Infrastructure Engineering, included specialists in energy supply, steam generation, operations, heat pump operations and process engineering.
The visit comprised two elements. The team first inspected the newly built V12 machine at Mandal Maskinering (Engineering) on Norway's south coast before travelling to the IVAR biogas facility near Stavanger to see a HoegTemp™ V6 in operation. The IVAR installation provided a working reference point for the technology ahead of the Roche deployment.
The inspection was concluded successfully with the Roche delegation satisfied with both the equipment and its performance. The result marks a significant milestone for Enerin. The V12 machine will now be prepared for shipment to Switzerland, with on-site installation scheduled for the end of June. After the summer break, the team will proceed with commissioning the HoegTemp™ high-temperature heat pump.
The Roche contract, announced by Enerin in September 2025, aligns with the Swiss company's advancement towards the integration of regenerative energy solutions that target reductions in energy and resource consumption.
For Enerin, the milestone advances the commercial development of its modular heat pump architecture, which is designed to support scalable industrial deployment across energy-intensive sectors requiring high-temperature process heat.