Thermo King has opened a research and development centre in Galway, adjacent to its manufacturing operations facility.
The R&D centre has capacity for up to 70 engineers and adds to the refrigerated transport provider's electrification design and engineering capabilities in Europe, which includes another R&D centre in Essen, Germany.
The site is part of a $100m investment by the company to ensure fully electric products in every segment of the cold chain (the temperature-controlled supply chain) in EMEA by 2023 and the Americas by 2025.
"Our new R&D centre generates another space for innovation, creativity and learning,” said Francesco Incalza, president of Thermo King EMEA at Trane Technologies.
“The technologies developed on-site will add to the more than 40,000-strong fleet of Thermo King electric and fuel-efficient transport refrigeration units delivering food, vaccines, medicines and other critical goods across Europe and beyond.”
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Minister Hildegarde Naughton said Galway was "leading the way" in technology R&D and that the dedicated electrification laboratory was symbolic of Thermo King's confidence in the west of Ireland .
Trane Technologies has committed to reducing its customers' greenhouse gas emissions by 1 billion metric tonnes by 2030, and the centre adheres to the EU's latest nearly zero-emission building standard.
Photo (l-r): Thermo King's Ken Gleeson, IDA Ireland's Ray O'Connor, and Thermo King executives Cormac Mac Donncha, Bernd Lipp and Mike Stratford.
