Trane Technologies

This article is about the Irish-domiciled company formerly known as Ingersoll-Rand plc. For the Irish company currently known as Ingersoll Rand Inc., see Ingersoll Rand.

This article is about the holding company. For the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system manufacturer, see Trane.

Trane Technologies plc

Formerly	Ingersoll-Rand plc
Company type	Public
Traded as	NYSE: TT S&P 500 component
ISIN	IE00B6330302
Industry	Equipment manufacturing
Founded	1871; 155 years ago (1871)
Headquarters	Swords , Ireland
Key people	Dave Regnery (chairman, president & CEO)
Products	Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems Refrigeration systems
Revenue	US$21.3 billion (2025)
Operating income	US$3.97 billion (2025)
Net income	US$2.92 billion (2025)
Total assets	US$21.4 billion (2025)
Total equity	US$8.58 billion (2025)
Number of employees	44,000 (2025)
Divisions	Thermo King Trane
Website	tranetechnologies.com
Footnotes / references [1]

Trane Technologies plc is an American-Irish domiciled company focused on heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) and refrigeration systems. The company traces its corporate history back more than 150 years and was created after a series of mergers and spin-offs. In 2008, HVAC manufacturer Trane was acquired by Ingersoll Rand, a US industrial tools manufacturer. In 2020, the tools business was spun off as Ingersoll Rand and the remaining company was renamed Trane Technologies.

Trane Technologies is a global climate innovator^[2] focused on sustainable heating, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC) and transport refrigeration systems, among other innovative solutions for heating, cooling, and energy management. The company designs and delivers high‑efficiency systems and services for buildings, homes, industrial processes, and cold‑chain logistics. Its strategy centers on decarbonization, energy efficiency, and climate‑focused innovation for critical infrastructure sectors worldwide.

Corporate affairs

Trane Technologies's headquarters are in Swords, County Dublin, Ireland. Its European headquarters are in Sint-Stevens-Woluwe, Zaventem, Belgium. Its Asia headquarters are in Tower B of City Center of Shanghai in Shanghai, People's Republic of China. Its North American headquarters are in Davidson, North Carolina.^[3][4]

Brands and subsidiaries

The company's brands and subsidiaries^[5] include:

• Trane – subsidiary brand manufacturing heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment
  • American Standard Heating & Air Conditioning – HVAC equipment brand
    • Ameristar – Value HVAC equipment brand of American Standard
  • Oxbox – Value HVAC equipment brand
  • RunTru – Value HVAC equipment brand
  • Thermocold – European HVAC equipment brand
  • AL-KO – European manufacturer of air handling units
• Thermo King – subsidiary brand manufacturing refrigeration units for transport industry, HVAC units for buses and trains
  • Frigoblock – European refrigeration unit brand
• ICS Cool Energy – Refrigeration and HVAC equipment for European industrial customers
• MTA-IT – HVAC equipment for European customers
• Nuvolo – cloud-based connected workplace solutions for digital advancements in heating and cooling
• BrainBox AI – Driving artificial intelligence and innovation across the built environment, including the Trane Technologies AI Lab
• Life Science Solutions – Provide precision-temperature controlled solutions for health and life sciences customers
  • Farrar Scientific – Life sciences refrigeration brand
  • Helmer Scientific – Life sciences refrigeration brand
  • Diversified Laboratory Repair (DLR) - maintenance and repair services of laboratory equipment
• Data Center Solutions – Advancing smarter data center cooling ^[6]
  • Trane - Provides thermal management strategy^[7] for hyperscale data centers
  • Stellar Energy – innovator of data center cooling solutions in modular data centers
  • Liquid Stack – liquid cooling technology for high-density AI-scale workloads

Sustainability and Innovation

Trane Technologies embeds sustainability across its products, operations and long-term strategy. The company has key sustainability related commitments, which include:

• Gigaton Challenge, their goal to reduce one billion metric tons, or a gigaton, of greenhouse gas emissions (CO2e) from customer's carbon footprints by 2030.
• Leading by Example, their commitment to have a restorative impact on the environment through their own supply chain and operations with decarbonization strategies and the 2050 Net-Zero roadmap, as outlined in their Climate Transition Plan^[8].
• Opportunity for All, a component of the workforce culture at Trane Technologies^[9] where their employees are part of an uplifting culture focused on broadening access to education and skill development, purpose-driven careers with growth opportunities and career pathways in the company.

Trane Technologies has expanded its digital and AI-enabled solutions through strategic acquisitions focused on building automation, data-driven energy optimization and advanced thermal management technologies.

• Brainbox AI: Trane Technologies announced the acquisition of BrainBox AI^[10], a developer of autonomous building management and AI‑driven HVAC optimization technology, on December 18, 2024, and completed the acquisition on January 3, 2025.
• Stellar Energy: The company completed the acquisition of the digital business of Stellar Energy^[11] Americas, Inc. on February 17, 2026, expanding its capabilities in energy systems analytics and performance optimization.
• LiquidStack: Trane Technologies announced its acquisition of LiquidStack^[12], a leader in advanced liquid cooling technologies for data centers and electronics, on February 10, 2026, and completed the transaction on March 3, 2026.

Awards & Recognition

Trane Technologies continues to receive global recognition for sustainability, innovation, culture, and ethics. Recent honors (2025–2026) include:^[13]

• Fortune World’s Most Admired Companies (14 consecutive years)
• TIME World’s Best Companies
• TIME Most Sustainable Companies
• Corporate Knights Global 100 Most Sustainable Companies
• CDP Climate “A List”
• Ethisphere World’s Most Ethical Companies
• Forbes World’s Best Employers and America’s Best Employers for Women
• Financial Times Europe’s Climate Leaders (5 consecutive years)
• JUST 100 – Top 10 ranking in 2025

These recognitions highlight leadership in sustainability, ethical business practices, climate innovation, and workplace culture.

History

History of Ingersoll Rand

Further information: Ingersoll Rand § History

Simon Ingersoll founded Ingersoll Rock Drill Company in 1871 in New York, and in 1888, it combined with Sergeant Drill to form Ingersoll Sergeant Drill Company. The Ingersoll Sergeant Drill Company introduced the world's first direct-connected, electric motor-driven compressor. Also in 1871, brothers Addison Rand and Jasper Rand Jr. established Rand Drill Company with its main manufacturing plant in Tarrytown, New York. In 1905, the Ingersoll-Sergeant Drill Company merged with the Rand Drill Company to form Ingersoll Rand.

In 2002, shareholders voted to move the company's incorporation to Bermuda to capitalize on the savings on U.S. corporate income taxes on products sold overseas. Moving the company on paper cost only US$27,000 per year, with tax savings estimated at US$40 million annually.^[14]

In July 2004, the Drilling Solutions business was sold to the Swedish company Atlas Copco. This included factories in United States, China, Japan making above ground rotary blasthole and deephole drilling machines. Atlas Copco purchased the company for US$225M. Drilling Solutions was a legacy business from the company's founding.

In February 2007, Volvo, a Swedish truck and construction equipment manufacturer, announced its agreement to buy the road construction equipment division of Ingersoll-Rand for $1.3 billion in cash to expand its operations in the United States. The road unit manufactures and sells asphalt paving equipment, compaction equipment, milling machines and construction-related material handling equipment and generated net revenues of approximately $850 million for 2006. The sale included manufacturing facilities in Pennsylvania, Germany, China and India, as well as 20 distribution and service facilities in the United States. The business employs approximately 2,000 people worldwide.^{[citation needed]}

In May 2007, the company announced it was looking into a sale or spin-off of its Bobcat, utility equipment, and attachments divisions. With this divestiture, Ingersoll Rand was left with the industrial technologies, climate control technologies, and security technologies sectors. This completed the transformation from the diversified machinery label to a diversified industrial company.

On 30 July 2007, Ingersoll Rand announced that the utility and attachment businesses had been sold to Doosan Infracore, part of the South Korean chaebol Doosan, for US$4.9 billion.^[15]

On 17 December 2007, Ingersoll Rand announced an offer to purchase HVAC supplier Trane, in a stock and cash transaction. The purchase was approved by Trane's stockholders, and the unit became a part of the climate control technologies business, which is divided into commercial and residential business units, each reporting directly to the chairman.^[16] The sale was completed on 5 June 2008.^[17]

History of Trane

Further information: Trane § History

In 1885, James Trane, a Norwegian immigrant, opened his own plumbing and pipe-fitting shop in La Crosse, Wisconsin. He designed a new type of low-pressure steam heating system, Trane vapor heating. Reuben Trane, James' son, earned a mechanical engineering degree in 1910 and joined his father's plumbing firm.^[18] In 1913, James and Reuben incorporated The Trane Company. By 1916, the Tranes focused their attention on manufacturing heating products. Reuben's invention of the convector radiator in 1923, which replaced the heavy, bulky, cast-iron radiators that prevailed at the time, was a major success. Trane's first air conditioning unit was developed in 1931.

In 1984, Trane was acquired by the American Standard Companies. The company was broken up in 2007, with the remaining business renamed Trane. Shortly after, in 2008, Trane was acquired by Ingersoll Rand.

After the Ingersoll Rand and Trane merger

Ingersoll Rand announced in March 2009 its intention to relocate its offices from Bermuda to Ireland, a decision which shareholders approved in a vote.^[19]

On 16 November 2010, the company became a constituent of the S&P 500 Index, replacing Pactiv Corporation.^[20]

On 2 December 2013, Ingersoll Rand completed the spinoff of its security hardware sector into a standalone business named Allegion, which maintains commercial and residential security hardware brands such as Schlage, Von Duprin, LCN, Bricard, Interflex, Normbau and CISA.^[21]

In August 2014, it was announced that Ingersoll-Rand would acquire the centrifugal compression unit of Cameron International for $850 million.^[22]

In October 2018, Ingersoll Rand received takeover interest in its power tools business, which was slated to be worth up to $750 million in a potential sale. Power Tools is the oldest business with the least revenue, and the decision of whether to sell this unit or not has not been announced.^[23]

Spin-off of Ingersoll Rand

In 2020 Ingersoll Rand sold its non-refrigeration businesses via a Reverse Morris Trust transaction to Gardner Denver, rebranding themselves as Trane Technologies and focusing on their Commercial HVAC, Residential HVAC (Trane) and Refrigeration Transport businesses (Thermo King).^[24]

In December 2025, it was announced Trane Technologies had acquired a minority stake in the Berlin-based firm, Kieback&Peter GmbH & Co. KG. The company develops and produces building-automation hardware and software, integrated control solutions for room climate, building systems, and industrial applications.^[25]

References

1. "Trane Technologies Plc 2025 10-K Annual Report". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. 6 February 2026. Retrieved 5 February 2026.
2. "About Trane Technologies". tranetechnologies.com. 3/23/2026. Retrieved 3/23/2026. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |access-date= and |date= (help)
3. "Contact Us Archived 2 January 2011 at the Wayback Machine." Ingersoll Rand. Retrieved on 18 January 2011. "Global Headquarters 170/175 Lakeview Drive Airside Business Park Swords, Co. Dublin Ireland." "North America Headquarters 800-E Beaty Street Davidson, NC 28036 USA" "Europe Headquarters Alma Court Building Lenneke Marelaan 6 1932 Sint-Stevens-Woluwe Belgium" "Asia Headquarters 10/F, Tower B, City Center of Shanghai 100 Zun Yi Road Shanghai 200051 People’s Republic of China"
4. "Davidson Streets." City of Davidson. Retrieved on 18 January 2011.
5. "Our Brands | Sustainable Solutions". www.tranetechnologies.com. Retrieved 23 March 2026.
6. Humphreys, Saffron (17 March 2026). "Trane and NVIDIA: Tackling Rising Heat in AI Data Centres". datacentremagazine.com. Retrieved 23 March 2026.
7. "Improving how data centers are developed, designed and operated". www.trane.com. Retrieved 23 March 2026.
8. "Trane Technologies Climate Transition Plan" (PDF).
9. "Careers at Trane Technologies | Trane Technologies jobs". Trane Technologies. Retrieved 23 March 2026.
10. "Trane Technologies Completes Acquisition of BrainBox AI". investors.tranetechnologies.com. Retrieved 23 March 2026.
11. "Trane Technologies Completes Acquisition of Stellar Energy". investors.tranetechnologies.com. Retrieved 23 March 2026.
12. "Trane Technologies Completes Acquisition of LiquidStack". investors.tranetechnologies.com. Retrieved 23 March 2026.
13. "Business Awards & Recognition". www.tranetechnologies.com. Retrieved 23 March 2026.
14. Johnston, David Cay (18 February 2002). "U.S. Corporations are Using Bermuda to Slash Tax Bills". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 May 2023.
15. Ingersoll-Rand to Sell its Bobcat, Utility Equipment and Attachments Business Units for $4.9 Billion Archived 12 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine, Ingersoll-Rand website, assessed 31 July 2007.
16. "Heating and Air Conditioning Services & Systems -Trane". Archived from the original on 6 April 2013. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
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21. "Ingersoll Rand Completes Spinoff of Allegion". Archived from the original on 14 October 2014. Retrieved 8 October 2014.
22. "Ingersoll-Rand to buy Cameron International unit for $850 million" (Press release). Reuters. 19 August 2014.
23. "Ingersoll-Rand Gets Buyer Interest in Power Tools Unit". Bloomberg.com. 25 October 2018. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
24. "Trane Technologies Completes Reverse Morris Trust Transaction and Begins Trading Today on NYS". Businesswire.com. 2 March 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
25. "Trane Technologies acquires stake in German automation provider". www.healthestatejournal.com. 5 December 2025. Retrieved 5 December 2025.

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