Modine Starts Airedale Chiller Production at Grand Prairie Plant

Modine said in a November 11, 2026 announcement that it had begun commercial production of Airedale chillers at a new purpose-built manufacturing facility in Grand Prairie, Texas, and that it expects the 682,000-square-foot site to become the largest Airedale chiller manufacturing facility in its global footprint.

The plant is dedicated to producing 2MW and 3MW chillers with free cooling for the data center market. Its intended customers and applications include hyperscale cloud providers, colocation operators and high-density artificial intelligence computing environments.

Production Ramp

The first production line began operating in November 2026. Modine is targeting four operational 2MW production lines by the end of its current fiscal year and plans to move from the plant’s current single shift to a fully operational three-shift model. The production-line target depends on equipment commissioning, workforce readiness and other operational considerations.

The launch therefore represents the initial stage of a planned ramp, not the facility’s final operating configuration.

“The launch of our Grand Prairie facility is an important milestone in the plan we announced last year to expand U.S. manufacturing capacity for Airedale cooling technologies,” said Neil D. Brinker, Modine’s president and CEO. “Scaling our capacity close to our customers enables us to partner with them to deliver the right highly engineered cooling solutions to help them advance their progress and achieve their performance objectives.”

Four-State Capacity Buildout

A September 23, 2026 Modine release described Grand Prairie as part of a broader investment announced in July 2025 to increase U.S. manufacturing capacity for Airedale data center cooling products. The plan covers Franklin, Wisconsin; Grand Prairie, Texas; Grenada, Mississippi; and Jefferson City, Missouri.

The Wisconsin part of that buildout was already underway. Modine opened a separate 153,000-square-foot Franklin plant in September 2025 to manufacture Airedale data center cooling systems. In September 2026, the company was recruiting for up to 300 positions across first and second shifts at that facility, saying the additional workforce would help ramp production amid growing demand for energy-efficient data center cooling.

Grand Prairie is roughly 4.5 times Franklin’s size, calculated from the two plants’ reported floor areas.

Beyond chillers, Airedale’s data center thermal-management portfolio includes dry coolers, coolant distribution units and intelligent controls. Modine describes those systems as engineered to optimize efficiency across different thermal architectures and to address complex, high-density cooling demands while maximizing energy and water efficiency. Grand Prairie adds dedicated manufacturing for one product category within that broader cooling and controls range.

Grand Prairie moves another part of that national expansion into commercial output. Its next test is execution: commissioning the remaining production lines, preparing the workforce and adding shifts to reach the operating configuration Modine has outlined.