Hydrogen Machines for France

France sits at the top of the global luxury hospitality and beauty industries, and the wellness layer beneath both has matured into a serious operational discipline. The Palace classification, the strength of independent boutique hôtellerie, the global influence of French maisons de beauté, and the depth of the residential premium market combine to make France one of the highest-leverage markets in the world for credible wellness equipment — and one of the most demanding in terms of guest experience, design integration and brand fit.

Hydrogen wellness is a natural fit for this market. French operators read the experience first and the spec sheet second — the equipment has to behave well in the room, integrate visually with a design-led environment, and earn its place on a curated wellness menu alongside modalities the guest already trusts. Our chassis are designed for exactly that brief: quiet, low-visual-noise, premium-appliance in register, and engineered to documented specifications a Palace procurement team or a maison de beauté operations director can sign off on without translation.

The HERO Inhaler & HERO Inhaler Pro series is the default chassis for French hotel wellness installations. The HERO Inhaler 1200 fits a single suite or treatment cabin; the HERO Inhaler Pro 3000 supports a two-guest hydrogen lounge with parallel cannulas. Both run on 230 V Type E mains and integrate without acoustic or visual disruption — a deliberate engineering choice for environments where the design of the room is part of the room rate. For Palace-tier properties, the chassis is shipped with documentation aligned to the brand's FF&E format and certification archive.

Programming patterns mirror the European luxury norm: 30–60 minute hydrogen sessions bookable through the spa menu, executive wellness suites on club floors, and dedicated hydrogen lounges integrated into the broader wellness offering. The Palace segment in particular has been quick to adopt — partly because the differentiation is genuine (very few competing properties offer hydrogen) and partly because the operational footprint is light (no new therapist line, no consumable supply chain beyond the inlet water cartridge).

HERO Bath is the chassis specified for French hydrogen bath installations — Palace suites, Côte d'Azur villa rentals, Alpine chalet builds, and refurbished Haussmann apartments in the 8th and 16th arrondissements. The unit retrofits alongside the existing bath without rebuilding the salle de bain: the diffuser drops into the tub, the chassis sits within reach of a Type E outlet, and a 10–15 minute cycle saturates the bath water with molecular hydrogen before the guest enters.

For French residential luxury — typically interior-architect-led refurbishments and new-build villa product — the installation drawings drop straight into the architect's CCTP and FF&E schedule. There is no plumbing intervention, no structural work, and no specialist trade required to install. For hotel groups and résidence operators, the same chassis handles back-to-back operation across guest cycles and is documented for inclusion in brand-standard wellness specifications.

Palaces and 5-star hotels — Paris, Côte d'Azur, French Alps — install hydrogen primarily as an in-suite amenity at the top of the room hierarchy or as a wellness-floor lounge. Resort and Provence-style country property installs hydrogen bath into signature villa or maison product as a paid booking upgrade. The Cannes and Saint-Tropez seasonal hospitality market has been an early adopter, drawn by the differentiation value during high-season programming.

Beauty industry operators — both the independent institut de beauté in Paris and the broader maisons de soins integrated into luxury hotels — add hydrogen inhalation to recovery and signature treatment menus. Wellness retreats in Provence, the Luberon and the Atlantic coast use hydrogen as part of multi-day programmes. On the residential side, French luxury home builders specify in-bath hydrogen as part of the principal bathroom in penthouse, villa and chalet product across the country.

All units shipped to France are supplied configured for 230 V / 50 Hz with the CEE 7/6 (Type E) French plug fitted as standard. The internal PSU is 100–240 V auto-sensing — there is no separate French SKU, and equipment moved within the EU works on local mains with a cordset swap only. EMC behaviour is documented under the FCC report and the CE Declaration of Conformity; both documents ship in the commercial documentation pack.

For freight, we ship DDP from our Australian distribution hub directly to a French receiving address. TVA and any duties are pre-paid, customs is cleared at Roissy or Lyon-Saint Exupéry, and delivery is tracked door-to-door. Typical timeline is 10 business days door-to-door on an express courier service, with single-point freight handling — no third-party broker between the manufacturer and your receiving dock.

The French buyer — particularly in Palace procurement and luxury residential architecture — expects a documentation pack that is complete on first delivery. We supply CE Declarations of Conformity, the FCC test report, RoHS compliance evidence and the ISO 9001 certificate covering manufacturing. Footprint and clearance drawings are issued in metric, electrical load data is published per chassis, and dimensional and mass figures are released for hotel FF&E, residential CCTP integration and freight planning.

Certifications describe hardware build, EMC behaviour and manufacturing quality. They are not a medical device registration and we do not market the equipment as a medical device. This positioning is aligned with how the French market categorises comparable wellness modalities and matches the way the Palace and maison de soins segments programme hydrogen on their wellness menus.

We work directly with French Palace properties, luxury hotel groups, independent institut de beauté operators, wellness-retreat developers and residential architects — without a parallel-import reseller layer between the manufacturer and the buyer. Equipment ships configured for French mains with the documentation pack assembled before dispatch, freight is single-point DDP, and the warranty path runs directly to the supplier rather than through a daisy-chain of distributors.

Trade and distributor relationships in France are selective — we work with a small number of partners rather than a wide reseller network. Portfolio orders for hotel groups, wellness-retreat developers and luxury residential projects are coordinated centrally, with staged dispatch against the project programme rather than against the order date.