AAON is expanding production capacity with the purchase of a new 787,000 square foot facility in Memphis, Tennessee.
The facility will primarily facilitate the growing demand from the data centre market and is projected to create 828 skilled jobs at this location over the next five years of operation.
The expansion will also add geographic diversification to AAON's current manufacturing footprint, mitigating certain operational risks and better serve data centre customers.
This facility will manufacture various types of thermal management equipment for data centres under the BASX brand, including air-cooled systems, computer room air handlers (CRAHs), direct evaporative coolers, and liquid cooling distribution units (CDUs), both liquid-to-liquid and liquid-to-air.
The facility is expected to have limited production in early 2025 and be fully operational in approximately 12 months.
AAON CEO, Gary Fields, said the new facility marks a new chapter for the company.
“Not only will this allow us to continue to capitalise on the rapidly growing data centre market, it demonstrates the commitment we have to our data centre customers and the confidence we have in the vertical strategy of this market,” he said.