Airedale Test Centers
Airedale by Modine has invested in world-class testing facilities around the world, ensuring that our air conditioning and chiller solutions deliver proven performance, efficiency, and reliability.
Global Lab Capabilities
Airedale by Modine is a world leader in innovative thermal management solutions for mission-critical environments such as data centers, healthcare, and towers and telecoms. As part of the US-based Modine group, our global purpose is to “engineer a cleaner, healthier world™.”
Renowned for the expertise of our people, with world class products and plants, we are proud of our R&D ethos being firmly rooted in sustainability and quality.
We reinvest a significant portion of our profits into R&D to stay ahead of industry trends, ensuring our committed to deliver best-in-class technical design, energy performance, project delivery and ongoing lifecycle optimisation; all of which comes together to support our clients in meeting their performance, efficiency and sustainability goals.
Global Footprint
Airedale by Modine is a global force in mission-critical cooling, with manufacturing facilities across the world: Leeds (UK), Consett (UK), Bradford (UK), Guadalajara (Spain), Grenada (US), Rockbridge (US), and Calgary (Canada).
We believe our labs are critical to the development of reliable, high performing products. That is why we use them not just for validation testing but also customer ‘first of a kind’ testing as well as witness testing.
Leeds, UK
Our multi-million pound 250,000 ft2 purpose-built facility in Leeds sets the standard as one of the most advanced air conditioning product testing centres of its kind, and one of the biggest in Europe.
- Three internal test chambers for specialised performance testing and one external test area for acoustic analysis
- Air and water-cooled chillers testing to 2MW
- CRAC/CRAH testing to 250kW with precise airflow measurement
- Fan wall testing to 400kW
- −20°C* to +52°C ambient temperature simulation
- Capability to test with Glycol
*Load dependant
Bradford, UK
In 2024 we invested in a 315,000 ft2 facility, to assist with the manufacturing of our Precision AC and Small Systems units.
Guadalajara, Spain
Our 450,000 ft2 manufacturing facility is purpose-built to support advanced research and development testing.
- Hemi-anechoic and reverberant chamber for acoustic testing
Grenada, Mississippi
Our 800,000 ft2 manufacturing facility is dedicated to meeting the growing demand for cutting-edge colocation and hyperscale data centre cooling solutions.
- CRAH/fan wall testing up to 500kW
- Precise airflow measurement
- Up to 40°C ambient temperature simulation
- Capability to test with Glycol
Rockbridge, Virginia
With Virginia being regarded as the world’s data center capital, our 100,000 ft2 manufacturing facility is ideally located to serve the US market.
- Air-cooled chiller and dry cooler testing to 2.2MW
- Up to 55°C ambient temperature simulation
Calgary, Alberta
Our two facilities in Canada, totalling an area of 380,000 ft2 offer fully customisable test sections to enable bespoke product testing.
- AHU testing – 175kW to 290kW
- Up to 180m³ׇ/s airflow testing
- Free field acoustic testing
- Unit vibration testing
- Functional Testing of all control systems
GLOBAL FACILITIES
QUALITY & INNOVATION
Innovative product development is key to Airedale’s success, setting air conditioning industry standards when it comes to manufacturing expertise and addressing industry, economic and environmental challenges.
ENVIRONMENT
Airedale are known as a company that always tries to push the boundaries of technology, investing into research & development with a focus on energy efficiency and the environment.
