Carrier Global Corporation is an American
multinational heating, ventilation, and air conditioning
Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC ) is the use of various technologies to control the temperature, humidity, and purity of the air in an enclosed space. Its goal is to provide thermal comfort and acceptable indoor air quality. H ...
(HVAC),
refrigeration
Refrigeration is any of various types of cooling of a space, substance, or system to lower and/or maintain its temperature below the ambient one (while the removed heat is ejected to a place of higher temperature).IIR International Dictionary of ...
, and fire and security equipment corporation based in
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
Palm Beach Gardens is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, Palm Beach County, Florida, United States, approximately 80 miles north of Miami. Palm Beach Gardens is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area. The population was 59,182 at the ...
. Carrier was founded in 1915 as an independent company manufacturing and distributing HVAC systems, and has since expanded to include manufacturing commercial refrigeration and food service equipment, and fire and security technologies.
it was a $20.4 billion company with over 52,000 employees serving customers in 160 countries on six continents.
Carrier was acquired by
United Technologies
United Technologies Corporation (UTC) was an American multinational corporation, multinational list of conglomerates, conglomerate headquartered in Farmington, Connecticut. It researched, developed, and manufactured products in numerous are ...
in 1979, but it was spun off as an independent company 41 years later in 2020, as was the
Otis Elevator Company.
History
Willis Carrier, a mechanical engineer working for Buffalo Forge, is credited with inventing modern
air conditioning
Air conditioning, often abbreviated as A/C (US) or air con (UK), is the process of removing heat from an enclosed space to achieve a more comfortable interior temperature, and in some cases, also controlling the humidity of internal air. Air c ...
in July 1902.
In 1908, the Carrier Air Conditioner Company of America was created as a subsidiary of the
Buffalo Forge Company, with Willis Carrier as its vice president.
With the onset of
World War I
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in late 1914, the Buffalo Forge Company, where Carrier had been employed for 12 years, decided to confine its activities entirely to manufacturing. The result was that in 1915, Carrier and six other engineers pooled $32,600 to form the Carrier Engineering Corporation.
They purchased their first factory in 1920, in
Newark, New Jersey
Newark ( , ) is the List of municipalities in New Jersey, most populous City (New Jersey), city in the U.S. state of New Jersey, the county seat of Essex County, New Jersey, Essex County, and a principal city of the New York metropolitan area. ...
.
In 1955, Carrier merged with Affiliated Gas Equipment, Inc., which owned the Bryant Heater Co., Day & Night Water Heater Co., and Payne Furnace & Supply Co.
Carrier Corporation was acquired by
United Technologies Corporation
United Technologies Corporation (UTC) was an American multinational corporation, multinational list of conglomerates, conglomerate headquartered in Farmington, Connecticut. It researched, developed, and manufactured products in numerous are ...
(UTC) in July 1979. Prior to the acquisition by UTC, Carrier Corporation was known as the Carrier Air Conditioning Company.
International Comfort Products (ICP), headquartered in
Lewisburg, Tennessee, was acquired by Carrier in 1999. In the 1990s, Carrier stopped using the "Day & Night" brand (which was the "D" in the BDP division, or Bryant-Day & Night-Payne) but it was revived in 2006 by ICP.
In 2001, Carrier was the "world's largest manufacturer of air-conditioning, heating, and refrigerator equipment" with a "total employment of 42,600" and a revenue of $8.9 billion. Carrier announced that it would be closing its
DeWitt, New York plant. This led to the layoff of 1,000 employees.
On March 15, 2004, Carrier acquired the refrigeration subsidiary of
Linde.
In 2006, Carrier acquired Sensitech, Inc., a provider of logistics and tracking technologies based in
Beverly, Massachusetts.
In early 2008, Carrier acquired Environmental Market Solutions, Inc. (EMSI), an environmental and green building consulting company based in the United States. The company has received
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
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(LEED) certification from the US Green Building Council for its factories in Charlotte, NC, and Huntington, IN (2009), Shanghai, China (2010), and Monterrey, Mexico (2011).
In September 2013, Carrier,
Otis, and
United Technologies Fire and Security were combined into one subsidiary, UTC Building & Industrial Systems. In 2016, Otis was split off, with the remainder becoming
UTC Climate, Controls & Security.
In January 2016, Carrier announced it would lay off an unspecified number of employees at its research and development division in the town of
DeWitt, New York.
In February 2016, Carrier announced it would close its Indianapolis factory and
move production to Monterrey, Mexico. HVAC Systems and Services North America president Chris Nelson cited "ongoing cost and pricing pressures" and Carrier's "existing infrastructure and a strong supplier base" in Mexico, saying that the move would allow the company "to operate more cost-effectively." The Carrier spokesperson told the crowd that there would be no immediate impact on jobs, that the move would take place over three years, and no jobs would be affected until mid-2017, with the move to be completed by the end of 2019.
Over the November 2016 Thanksgiving holiday weekend, President-Elect
Donald Trump
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tweeted that he was in talks with Carrier Management to keep the factory in Indiana and not move to Mexico.
On November 30, 2016, Carrier announced that it had negotiated an agreement with President-elect Trump and Vice President-elect
Mike Pence to continue manufacturing gas furnaces in Indianapolis, in addition to retaining engineering and headquarters staff, preserving more than 1,000 jobs in Indianapolis. The agreement included a state incentive package of about $7 million over 10 years. The number of jobs saved was later revised down to 800.
In May 2017, as part of their previously announced plan, Carrier told the state of Indiana that it will cut 632 jobs from its Indianapolis factory. Layoffs began at the end of July 2017, with each worker receiving one week's salary for each year of employment, education and job training, plus 6 months of health insurance as part of the
severance package.
''The New York Times'' reported on August 10, 2018, that Carrier's Indianapolis furnace plant was plagued by low morale and absenteeism because "employees share a looming sense that a factory shutdown is inevitable — that Carrier has merely postponed the closing until a more politically opportune moment."
On November 26, 2018, United Technologies announced that it would spin off UTC Climate, Controls & Security as an independent company known as Carrier Global Corporation.
In April 2020, United Technologies announced that the separation and spin-off of Carrier had been completed.
On April 25, 2023, Carrier Global announced that it intended to acquire the HVAC division ''Viessmann Climate Solutions'' from the
Viessmann Group and divest its Commercial Refrigeration business and most of its Fire & Security businesses.
In December 2023, Carrier Global sold its security businesses LenelS2, Supra and Onity to
Honeywell for approximately $5 billion.
Syracuse, New York campus

Willis Carrier moved his facilities from New Jersey to
Syracuse, New York
Syracuse ( ) is a City (New York), city in and the county seat of Onondaga County, New York, United States. With a population of 148,620 and a Syracuse metropolitan area, metropolitan area of 662,057, it is the fifth-most populated city and 13 ...
, in the 1930s. During the late 20th century, when it was acquired by UTC, it was Central New York State's largest manufacturer. Due to increasing labor and union costs in the Central New York area, Carrier has substantially downsized its presence in Syracuse, with manufacturing work being moved to a variety of domestic and international locations. Meanwhile, managerial employees were moved closer to UTC's Connecticut corporate headquarters which represented a challenge to the local economy. Over the course of 2011, the majority of the manufacturing buildings of the Syracuse campus were demolished at a cost of nearly $14 million. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs, the suburban Syracuse Campus, in
DeWitt, New York, remained the primary engineering and design center for Carrier products, with over 1,000 employees and contractors on site. This site also houses the Customer Care Call Center for Carrier branded products.
In 1980, Carrier was allowed to name the
Carrier Dome, the football and basketball arena at
Syracuse University
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, after Mel Holm, the company's then-CEO chair of the university's board of trustees, gave the university $2.75 million toward the facility's construction. Despite being named for an air conditioner manufacturer, the Carrier Dome was not air-conditioned for the first four decades of its lifespan, only having it installed during renovations that were completed in 2022. Despite finally installing air conditioning, Syracuse announced an end to the perpetual naming rights deal of the dome with Carrier Corp. and that nearby wireless company
JMA Wireless would hold naming rights to the stadium moving forward.
Brands
HVAC
* AirQuest
* Arcoaire (previously owned by Atlantic Richfield Company)
* Bryant
* Carlyle
* Carrier
*
CIAT (Compagnie Industrielle d'Applications Thermiques)
* Comfortmaker
* ComfortPro
* Day & Night
* Heil
* Ideal Temp Signature
* Keeprite
* Payne
* Riello
* SLD Pumps & Power (founded as Scottish Land Development)
* Spot Coolers
* Tempstar
* Toshiba-Carrier
* Totaline
*
Viessmann
* Watkins Hire
* GCHV (Guangdong Carrier Heating, Ventilation & Air Conditioning Company Limited)
Building automation and HVAC controls
*
Automated Logic Corporation
* EcoEnergy Insights
* NORESCO (formerly Northeast Energy Services Company)
Refrigeration
* Carrier
* Carrier Transicold
* Sensitech
Fire and Security Controls
* UTEC (formerly United Technologies Electronic Controls)
See also
*
Carrier Enterprise Canada
References
External links
*
Carrier brand homepage
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1915 establishments in New Jersey
1979 mergers and acquisitions
Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning companies
Manufacturing companies based in Connecticut
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Superfund sites in Tennessee
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United Technologies