Munters will add 200,000 square feet (18,580 m²) of production space at its facility in Daleville, Virginia in the United States.
Munters will expand by using the adjacent lot at the current factory, which is under a leasing agreement.
This will consolidate all production activities in Virginia into a single location and includes the construction of a new test laboratory for chillers.
Construction work is set to begin this year and will be completed by the second quarter of 2026.
The initiative enables Munters to meet long-term demand for reliable, energy-efficient cooling in data centres, as AI-related requirements accelerate the need for faster data centre deployments.
The expansion increases production capacity and enables domestic manufacturing of chillers for the US market, as well as for the construction of a fully functional climate test chamber for chillers.
Munters currently produces chillers in Italy through the recently acquired Geoclima.
President of Munter’s Data Centre Technologies business area, Stefan Aspman, said Munters has experienced strong growth in its data centre business over the past five years, with new facilities in Daleville and Cork, as well as acquisitions in Italy and Thailand.
“To meet the expanding US market, we are enlarging our Virginia facility, creating a Data Centre Technologies production campus,” Aspman said.
“Together with our Texas facility, this will provide nearly 700,000 square feet (65,000 m²) of space dedicated to innovative, energy-efficient data centre cooling systems.”
Cooling and heat dissipation make up a significant part of a data centre’s total energy consumption, making them key to both operational efficiency and sustainability.
This drives the demand for innovative, resource-efficient cooling technologies.
Munters will now produce a range of cooling solutions for hyperscale and colocation data centres. The expansion enables local production of Geoclima’s chiller technology, delivering complete chilled water solutions for liquid and air cooling in the US.
Production will focus on smaller units like Chilled Water CRAHs, Fan Coil Arrays, and Cooling Distribution Units (CDUs) while larger units, such as SyCool chillers and Air Handling Units, will remain in the existing facility.