Your relationship stays local
Your point of contact, your team and your response times stay the same. The relationship stays with the people who already know you.
HVAC specialists
Returns, compounded.
We are a Portuguese HVAC group. We bring the best heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, refrigeration and building-management companies into one group, to serve our clients with the strength of a national player and the closeness of a local one.
Get in touchOur capabilities
One partner for your building's climate, from installation to maintenance
We combine deep expertise in HVAC and the trades closest to it, so our clients have one partner they can trust, from installation to maintenance, with fast response and end-to-end accountability.
HVAC: heating, ventilation & air conditioning
Refrigeration
Building-management systems (BMS)
Maintenance & technical support
And, as a result of all this, greater energy efficiency: a building that costs less to run, lasts longer and is better for the people who use it.
Explore our capabilitiesThe Retorno Group
The strength of a national group, the closeness of the people you already know
Retorno brings together leading regional HVAC companies, each with decades of experience and a hard-earned reputation. Together, they gain the scale, resources and responsiveness of a national group, without losing what made them good: their teams, their name and the trust they've built with every client.
More resources, better service
Capital, modern tools and the buying power of a national group, added to what each company already does well.
The best, together
We're bringing together some of the best HVAC companies in the country. Each one adds its strength to the others, and all of them gain from it.
Why Retorno
What sets us apart
People who know the field
We've lived HVAC for many years, from major international projects to everyday service. We know what it takes to deliver and maintain, not just plan.
Client at the centre
The relationship stays with local management: continuity, direct communication and fast response.
The best teams
We invest in our people and train the next generation of technicians, the reason the service stays at the highest level.
Technology-driven
Our own software and data to plan, maintain and anticipate: more quality and efficiency in every job.
For business owners
A home for the business you built
You built a solid, respected business, with customers who trust it. The question has stopped being “how do I grow more?” and become “what's next?”. Retorno is the answer: becoming part of a national HVAC group, with your team, your name and your customers carrying on, now at a different scale.
Among the best
We're bringing together some of the best HVAC companies in the country. Joining means standing among the best and growing with them, side by side.
Scale to work better
More capital, better procurement, less overhead. The scale that's hard to reach alone is now on your side, and day-to-day gets easier.
Your brand, your team
It's not being absorbed; it's adding up. Your brand, your team and your way of doing things carry on.
A real next chapter
Continuity for your team and a genuine next chapter for you, in whatever role you want. And because we're at the start, those who join early build it with us.
A fair, confidential, founder-to-founder process, with people who know the field from the inside.
Start a confidential conversationWho we are
Operations, management and technology, in one team
Retorno brings together three capabilities that rarely sit in the same place: people who know HVAC from the field up, people who know how to run and grow services companies, and people who build the technology that scales them. A team that built its career internationally and is now back to invest in the country's companies and the people who built them.
Real experience running and maintaining climate systems in demanding settings, from world-class projects like the World Trade Center rebuild in New York, to managing maintenance teams at scale. We know what it takes to deliver and maintain on the ground, not just plan.
Decades in CFO and CEO seats running, restructuring and growing companies, in Portugal and abroad. The financial discipline, systems and method that turn good companies into a bigger group.
A proven ability to build software and AI that scales services businesses, including a solution for optimising technician dispatch, later acquired by a world-leading facility-management company. We don't talk about technology; we build it.
Operators who know the field first-hand, know how to run and grow companies, and build the technology that multiplies both.
Let's talk
A project to serve, or a business to continue
Whether it's a project or a maintenance contract, or a next chapter for the business you built, we'll speak with you directly.
You're a client
You need an HVAC partner you can trust for your building or operation.
Get in touchYou own a business
You built an HVAC business and want to know what Retorno could mean for it.
Confidential conversation