Major UK gas boiler maker to start electric heat pump production in Hull

Exclusive: Ideal Heating's 50m investment aims to build 60,000 pumps and train 5,000 installers a year

One of Britain's biggest boiler makers is to start manufacturing electric heat pumps to keep pace with what it describes as the biggest transformation since the switch from coal to gas devices in the 1930s.

Ideal Heating has invested 50m in transforming the manufacturing facilities at its Hull headquarters, which have produced fossil fuel boilers for more than a century.