Trane Inc.
It's hard to stop a Trane.
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| Subsidiary of Ingersoll Rand | |
| Industry | General building materials |
| Founded | 1913 as The Trane Company La Crosse, Wisconsin 2007 (reincorporated as successor to American Standard Companies) |
| Headquarters | Swords, Dublin, Ireland |
| Products | Building Management Systems, HVAC equipment |
| Revenue |
 $10.264 billion USD (2005) |
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$875.400 million USD (2005) |
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$556.300 million USD (2005) |
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Number of employees
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29,000 (2007) |
| Website | www.trane.com |
Trane Inc. is a manufacturer of heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) systems and building management systems and controls. The company is a subsidiary of Ingersoll Rand and is the successor company to the American Standard Companies. It makes products under the Trane and American Standard brand names.
A global company, Trane's international headquarters are in Piscataway, New Jersey. Trane employs more than 29,000 people at 104 manufacturing locations in 28 countries, and has annual sales of more than $8 billion. In addition to its activity in HVAC systems, Trane is involved in energy conservation and renewable energy projects.
In 1885, James Trane, a Norwegian immigrant from Tromsø, 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 (B. S. 1910) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and joined his father's plumbing firm. In 1913, James and Reuben incorporated The Trane Company. It was Reuben's invention of the convector radiator in 1923 that firmly established the company's reputation as an innovator, a reputation Trane people have been building on ever since.
By 1916, the Tranes were no longer in the plumbing business, but instead focused their attention on manufacturing heating products. Reuben conceived the idea of the first convector radiator in 1925, which replaced the heavy, bulky, cast-iron radiators that prevailed at the time. Trane's first air conditioning unit was developed in 1931.
In 1982, Trane purchased General Electric's Central Air Conditioning Division. With that purchase came many of the most recognizable traits of Trane's residential air conditioning products. Many of those traits, like the distinctive red "Climatuff" compressors, the "Spine-Fin" all aluminum spiny outdoor coil and the all aluminum evaporator coil, are still found in Trane's residential equipment lines.
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