AAON has confirmed sales orders totalling $US174.5 million for products scheduled for delivery in the first half of 2025.
AAON did not identify customers but said the order includes a custom-designed thermal management system to support a liquid cooling deployment in a data centre.
The equipment will be manufactured under the company’s BASX brand at its newly constructed facilities in Texas.
Construction of the new facility is on schedule for completion at the end of the year.
AAON president and COO, Matt Tobolski, said these significant orders highlight AAON's superior engineering and manufacturing capabilities, advanced technology, and expertise in the data centre cooling market.
“Since BASX joined AAON in 2021, we have strengthened our collective position as leaders in this rapidly growing market,” he said.
“Capitalising on this highly innovative liquid cooling solution reflects our leadership, engineering proficiencies and ability to provide customer-centric, industry-leading solutions for the market.
“It showcases the solution-minded approach of our team and the strong value we provide to crafting unique, efficient data centre solutions.”
AAON CEO, Gary Fields, said the orders are an exciting milestone.
"Selecting AAON for this innovative solution over any of our peers is a testament to our superior, fully-customised engineering solutions that are unmatched in the industry,” Fields said.
“It also highlights our commitment towards investing in production capacity to supply this high-growth market.
“Within our current footprint, including the new facility in Texas, we have a considerable amount of excess capacity. At the same time, we are focused on investing in new incremental capacity,” he said.
“This underscores our confidence in our data centre customer relationships as well as the underlying fundamentals in the data centre market in what we view will be a multi-year growth cycle.
“We view these orders as a fraction of a much larger pipeline of opportunity in which we are committed to capitalising on.”