1885 James Trane, a Norwegian immigrant, opens a plumbing workshop in LaCrosse Wiscosin and invents the first fin-tube heat exchanger...
1913 The Trane Company is incorporated
1931 First Trane Cooler Unit
1938 First Semihermetric Centrifugal Chiller
1950 Model E&F Reciprocating Compressors
1958 Trane goes to Europe (Cemat)
1967 First HVAC plant in France (Epinal)
1973 Second Large Chiller Plant in Europe (Charmes)
1982 Acquisition of the HVAC brand of GE USA
1984 Trane becomes part of American Standard
1994 Trane was founded in the Philippines
2008 Trane becomes business of Ingersoll Rand