Modine Starts 2 MW, 3 MW Airedale Chillers at 682,000 sq ft Texas Plant

The company said in its release that the first production line started operations in November and that it is targeting four operational 2 MW production lines by the end of the current fiscal year. That target depends on equipment commissioning, workforce readiness and other operating factors, Modine said. The plant runs one shift today, with plans to scale to a three-shift model, and Modine expects it to become the largest Airedale chiller factory in its global footprint.

For data-center operators, the plant matters as supply. Modine says the 2 MW and 3 MW free-cooling units serve hyperscale cloud providers, colocation operators and high-density AI computing sites, and Brinker said scaling capacity close to customers is the point of the Texas site. The company gave no output volume, price or customer name, so how many units the lines can turn out is not yet known.

How the plant fits Modine's U.S. expansion plan

Chief Executive Neil D. Brinker called the launch a milestone in the plan the company announced last year. In that July 29, 2025 release, Modine set out $100 million over 12 to 18 months to expand U.S. manufacturing for Airedale data center cooling at four sites: a new facility in the Dallas, Texas, area, expansion in Grenada, Mississippi, and a review of repurposing existing Performance Technologies sites in Franklin, Wisconsin, and Jefferson City, Missouri. In that release, Brinker also said total data center revenue could approach $2 billion in fiscal 2028.

Airedale also sells dry coolers, coolant distribution units (CDUs) and controls, the release says, so the Texas plant is a chiller line inside a wider cooling portfolio. Refindustry, the refrigeration trade site, covered the 2025 plan and described the same four-site scope.

Demand behind the new capacity

The plant opens as Modine's data center business is under the spotlight. Voltgrid News reported Modine's fiscal second-quarter data center sales and, in a cooling-sector comparison of third-quarter results, how they stack up against rivals. Separately, Bloomberg's report of Samsung talks to buy Modine is unconfirmed, and nothing in the plant announcement refers to it.

What is not confirmed yet

Modine has not said how many chillers a line produces, when the second to fourth lines will be commissioned, how many people the plant employs or what it cost. The fiscal-year target is conditional on its own listed factors. Watch the next quarterly report for line-count progress and any change to the 2028 data center revenue ambition.