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{{Short description|Subsidiary manufacturer of HVAC systems}}

{{About|the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system manufacturer|the holding company|Trane Technologies|the saxophonist nicknamed "Trane"|John Coltrane}}

{{Infobox company

| name = Trane Inc.

| logo = Trane logo.svg{{!}}class=skin-invert

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| type = Subsidiary

| foundation = {{start date and age|1913|df=yes}} as The Trane Company in La Crosse, Wisconsin, U.S.

| founder = {{Unbulleted list|James Trane|Reuben Trane}}

| location = Swords, Dublin, Ireland

| parent = Trane Technologies

| industry = Equipment manufacturing

| products = Heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems

| homepage = {{url|trane.com}}

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Trane is a manufacturer of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, along with building management systems and controls. The company is a subsidiary of Trane Technologies, a company focused on manufacturing HVAC and refrigeration systems. Trane employs more than 29,000 people at 104 manufacturing locations in 28 countries, and has annual sales of more than {{US$|8 billion|link=yes}}.

History

File:Patinoire, Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire 07 - Trane AquaStream 3G chiller.jpg

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.[http://www.tranenynj.com/tc_history.php Trane Culture » Our History (Trane Inc.)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130408053442/http://www.tranenynj.com/tc_history.php |date=2013-04-08 }}

In 1913, James and Reuben, along with Stella Jackson (formerly Trane), incorporated The Trane Company. By 1916, the Trane's were no longer in the plumbing business, but instead 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 1982, Trane purchased General Electric's Central Air Conditioning Division.{{Cite web|url=https://products.geappliances.com/appliance/gea-support-search-content?contentId=16608|title = Central Heating and Air Conditioning}}{{Cite news|url=https://air-conditioner-man.tumblr.com/post/146622224459/1987-general-electric-room-air-conditioners|title = 1987 General Electric Room Air Conditioners| newspaper=Tumblr | date=June 2016 }} 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, rotary compressors, the "Spine-Fin" all aluminum spiny outdoor coil and the all aluminum evaporator coil, are still found in Trane's residential equipment lines.{{Cite web |url=http://cleanairac.com/products/trane-heating-and-air-conditioning |title=Trane heating and air conditioning |access-date=2013-10-12 |archive-date=2013-10-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012173326/http://cleanairac.com/products/trane-heating-and-air-conditioning |url-status=dead }}

In 1984, Trane was acquired by the American Standard Companies.

On February 1, 2007, American Standard Companies announced it would break up its three divisions. The company sold off its namesake kitchen and bath division and spun off WABCO, American Standard's vehicle controls division, while retaining Trane. American Standard then renamed itself Trane Inc. effective November 28, 2007.[http://ir.trane.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=278903 Trane – News Release] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090326101430/http://ir.trane.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=278903 |date=2009-03-26 }}[http://www.lacrossetribune.com/articles/2007/12/02/news/00lead.txt La Crosse Tribune – 7.0 : Area leaders optimistic about company’s name change, but none predict that the headquarters will return to city]

On December 17, 2007, Trane announced it had agreed to be acquired by Ireland-based Ingersoll Rand in a cash and stock transaction.[http://www.trane.com/Corporate/IR2007/index.asp Trane : Ingersoll Rand To Acquire Trane] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130406104315/http://www.trane.com/Corporate/IR2007/index.asp |date=2013-04-06 }}[http://www.lacrossetribune.com/articles/2007/12/17/breakingnews/01trane.txt La Crosse Tribune – 7.0 : Ingersoll-Rand to buy Trane for $10.1 billion][http://www.lacrossetribune.com/articles/2007/12/18/news/00lead.txt La Crosse Tribune – 7.0 : Reaction to Trane sale cautious; mayor disappointed][http://www.lacrossetribune.com/articles/2007/12/19/news/00lead.txt La Crosse Tribune – 7.0 : Union: New owner good fit for Trane] The sale was completed on June 5, 2008.[https://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2008/06/05/ap5087316.html Forbes.com]{{dead link|date=January 2022|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}{{Cite web |url=http://investor.shareholder.com/ir/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=314469 |title=Ingersoll Rand – Ingersoll Rand Completes Acquisition of Trane |access-date=2009-07-17 |archive-date=2014-07-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140728184619/http://investor.shareholder.com/ir/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=314469 |url-status=dead }}

In September 2017, the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America and Allergy Standards Limited{{cite web |title=Allergy Standards Website |url=https://www.allergystandards.com |accessdate=12 June 2018 |publisher=}} announced that the Trane CleanEffects whole home air cleaner earned the Asthma and Allergy Friendly Certification, the first whole home air cleaner to receive this certification.{{cite press release |publisher=GlobeNewswire |date=21 September 2017 |title=Trane® CleanEffects™ Air Cleaner Is the First Certified asthma & allergy friendly® Whole Home Air Cleaner Option |url=https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2017/09/21/1125933/0/en/Trane-CleanEffects-Air-Cleaner-Is-the-First-Certified-asthma-allergy-friendly-Whole-Home-Air-Cleaner-Option.html}}

In 2020, Ingersoll Rand spun off its non-refrigeration businesses and was rebranded as Trane Technologies.{{cite news |last= |first= |date=2020-03-02 |title=Trane Technologies Completes Reverse Morris Trust Transaction and Begins Trading Today on NYS |website=Businesswire.com |url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200302005208/en/Trane-Technologies-Completes-Reverse-Morris-Trust-Transaction-and-Begins-Trading-Today-on-NYSE |access-date=2021-11-09}}

Gallery

File:Trane buildings headquarters front.jpg|Trane building former headquarters
Abandoned as of May 2023

File:Trane buildings plant 7.jpg|Trane buildings plant 7

File:Trane buildings.jpg|The Trane Company

File:Trane buildings La Crosse.jpg|Trane buildings La Crosse

Europe's largest cooling system

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The Channel Tunnel is a {{convert|50.45|km|mi|adj=on}} rail tunnel beneath the English Channel, linking the United Kingdom with France. At its lowest point, it is {{convert|75|m|ft|sigfig=2|abbr=on}} below the sea bed and {{convert|115|m|ft|sigfig=2|abbr=on}} below sea level.{{cite web |url=http://www.ferryto.co.uk/ports/Folkestone.html |title=Folkestone Eurotunnel Trains |publisher=Transworld Leisure Limited |accessdate=11 February 2017}}{{cite book | author=Institution of Civil Engineers | title = The Channel Tunnel | year = 1989 | publisher=Thomas Telford | location = London | isbn = 0-7277-1546-1 |page=95 }}{{cite web | url = http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/extreme_machines/4217338.html?series=23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140517204320/http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/engineering/4217338?series=23 |archive-date=17 May 2014 |date=1 October 2009 |title = Turkey Building the World's Deepest Immersed Tube Tunnel |first=Jeff |last=Wise |publisher=Popular Mechanics }} At {{convert|37.9|km}}, the tunnel has the longest undersea portion of any tunnel in the world.{{Cite news|date=5 June 2018|title=Europe's 'Largest Cooling System' Boosts Anglo-French Channel Tunnel's Sustainability Drive|first=Gaurav|last=Sharma|work=Forbes|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/gauravsharma/2018/06/05/europes-largest-cooling-system-boosts-anglo-french-channel-tunnels-sustainability-drive/#65372e82cdfb|accessdate=12 June 2018}} During the design stage of the tunnel, engineers found that its aerodynamic properties and the heat generated by high-speed trains as they passed through it would raise the temperature inside the tunnel to {{convert|50|C|F}}.{{Cite news|title=HFO chillers to cool the Channel Tunnel|date=14 September 2016|work=Cooling Post|url=https://www.coolingpost.com/world-news/hfo-chillers-to-cool-the-channel-tunnel/|accessdate=12 June 2016}} As well as making the trains "unbearably warm" for passengers this also presented a risk of equipment failure and track distortion. To cool the tunnel to {{convert|30|C|F}}, engineers installed {{convert|480|km|mi}} of {{convert|0.61|m|in|abbr=on}} diameter cooling pipes carrying 84 million liters (18.5 million gallons) of water. The network—Europe's largest cooling system—was supplied by eight York Titan chillers running on R22, a Hydrochlorofluorocarbon (HCFC) refrigerant gas.{{Cite news|title=Tunnel vision proves R1233zd efficiency|date=1 June 2018|work=Cooling Post|accessdate=12 June 2018|url=https://www.coolingpost.com/features/tunnel-vision-proves-r1233zd-efficiency/}}

Due to R22's ozone depletion potential (ODP) and high global warming potential (GWP), its use is being phased out in developed countries, and since 1 January 2015 it has been illegal in Europe to use HCFCs to service air-conditioning equipment—broken equipment that used HCFCs must instead be replaced with equipment that does not use it. In 2016, Trane was selected to provide replacement chillers for the tunnel's cooling network. The York chillers were decommissioned and four "next generation" Trane Series E CenTraVac large-capacity (2600 kW to 14,000 kW) chillers were installed—two located in Sangatte, France, and two at Shakespeare Cliff, UK. The energy-efficient chillers, using Honeywell's non-flammable, ultra-low GWP R1233zd(E) refrigerant, maintain temperatures at {{convert|25|C|F}}, and in their first year of operation generated savings of 4.8 GWh—approximately 33%, equating to €500,000 ($585,000)—for tunnel operator Getlink.

Notable Trane buildings

The list of buildings below use Trane systems.

  • Channel Tunnel, between England and France{{Cite news|title=Eurotunnel lauds cooling efficiency gains after HFO switch|date=5 June 2018|first=Neil|last=Merrett|work=Refrigeration & Air Conditioning Magazine|accessdate=11 June 2018|url=https://www.racplus.com/features/eurotunnel-lauds-cooling-efficiency-gains-after-hfo-switch/10031775.article}}
  • Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France{{Cite news|title=Trane project in Paris museum is a work of art|date=1 December 2013|work=Modern Building services|accessdate=12 June 2018|url=http://www.modbs.co.uk/news/archivestory.php/aid/12620/Trane_project_in_Paris_museum_is_a_work_of_art_.html}}
  • Warsaw Financial Center, Warsaw, Poland
  • Australian Securities Exchange, Melbourne, Australia{{Cite web|url=http://www.trane.com/Corporate/About/buildings.asp|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071201211317/http://www.trane.com/Corporate/About/buildings.asp|work=Trane|title=Famous Trane Buildings|archivedate=1 December 2007|via=Wayback Machine}}
  • The Kremlin, Moscow, Russia
  • La Scala Opera House, Milan, Italy
  • McCormick Place Convention Center, Chicago, Illinois
  • Athens Olympic Sports Complex, Athens, Greece
  • SeaWorld, Orlando, Florida
  • Rogers Centre, Toronto, Canada
  • Statue of Liberty, New York City, New York
  • Farragut Technical Analysis Center, Washington, D.C.
  • Washington Monument, Washington, D.C.
  • World Trade Center, Beijing, China
  • Burj Khalifa, Dubai, UAE{{Cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304060630/http://www.trane.com/commercial/uploads/pdf/cso/405/bd.pdf|url=http://www.trane.com/commercial/uploads/pdf/cso/405/bd.pdf|archivedate=4 March 2016|work=Trane|date=2014|title=Case Study: Burj Dubai Tower|via=Wayback Machine}}

Manufacturing locations

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References

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