Carrier plans Fort Worth chiller manufacturing centre

A commercial chiller manufacturing centre

Carrier Global plans to invest more than $600 million over three years in a manufacturing and engineering centre in Fort Worth, Texas, United States. The facility will exceed one million square feet, with operations expected to begin in 2027. Its air- and water-cooled commercial chillers will serve customers in data centres, healthcare, education and industrial markets.

Chairman and chief executive David Gitlin connects the investment with growing demand for Carrier’s thermal-management technologies. The company expects the project to create 1,500 manufacturing, engineering and other jobs. Engineering laboratories and cooperation with local schools and colleges form part of the programme. Carrier also plans to pursue LEED certification for the centre; certification remains a future objective.

Local incentive conditions

Fort Worth’s Sep 15, 2026, council agenda proposed a seven-year abatement of up to 60% of incremental city property taxes for the project at 1501 Distribution Drive. The estimated abatement value was $10.9 million. The city’s proposed minimum commitments included:

• $36 million in real-property improvements by Dec 31, 2028.
• At least $397.8 million in assessed taxable business personal property by Jan 1, 2029.
• 495 new full-time jobs by Dec 31, 2029, with an average salary of at least $75,000.

The proposed terms also set a 30% small-business spending commitment for real-property improvements, subject to availability and the agreement’s conditions. The city separately proposed nominating the project for Texas Enterprise Zone benefits. That state programme concerns qualified sales-and-use-tax refunds, rather than the city’s property-tax abatement. Both the incentive minimums and their conditions differ from Carrier’s larger October investment and employment projections.

The earlier national programme

Carrier announced an additional $1 billion, five-year investment in American manufacturing, innovation and workforce expansion on May 13, 2025. It expected the programme to create 4,000 jobs across research, manufacturing and field service. Planned spending covered existing-facility expansions, a new manufacturing site for heat-pump components and battery assemblies, and research into liquid cooling for data centres.

The TechVantage initiative, announced in January 2025, was included in both that investment and its expected employment total. It targeted 1,000 service-technician hires and training for more than 100,000 climate-solutions service and sales professionals over five years. The training supports installation and servicing of advanced systems. These national programme targets are separate from the proposed local incentive requirements for Fort Worth.