Why Carrier?

Carrier Corporation (www.carrier.com) is a leader in providing heating, ventilation, air-conditioning and refrigeration (HVACR) systems, controls, services and sustainable building solutions for residential, commercial, industrial, food service and transportation applications. It is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation (NYSE:UTX).

Mission
To be our customers’ first choice for air-conditioning, heating and refrigeration solutions everywhere around the world.

Purpose
We make the world a better place to live by creating a comfortable, productive and healthy environment, regardless of climate, and by ensuring the global food supply is transported and preserved for safe consumption.

Revenues
$14.9 billion in 2008

Current Employment
Approximately 41,000

Historical Milestones
1902 – Willis Carrier invents the world’s first mechanical air conditioner.
1906 – U.S. patent issued for “Apparatus for Treating Air”
1915 – Carrier Engineering Corp. is founded in New York.
1922 – Carrier develops a new coolant and a centrifugal refrigerating machine that enables the cooling of public spaces, changing the face of urban architecture.
1939 – Carrier invents a system for air conditioning skyscrapers.
1965 – Carrier installs ground-based environmental control systems for the Apollo-Saturn V moon program.
1979 – UTC acquires Carrier, the world’s largest manufacturer of air conditioning and refrigeration equipment.
1986 – Carrier establishes first of several joint ventures in China.
1996 – Carrier introduces its first product line of high efficiency residential air conditioners and heat pumps using the environmentally sound, non-ozone-depleting Puron® refrigerant.
1999 – Carrier enters into a global joint venture with Toshiba Corp. of Japan, a leader in residential and light commercial air conditioning ventilation equipment and compressors.
2004 – Carrier acquires Linde AG’s commercial refrigeration business.
2008 – Carrier establishes a joint venture with Midea to produce residential and light commercial duct-free split air-conditioning systems exclusively for Carrier for the global market.

Operations
Carrier distributes to, and services its customers via a worldwide network of owned and independent distributors and dealers in more than 170 countries on six continents. Carrier's products are manufactured in 73 facilities across six continents and owns 18 R&D centers around the world with thousands of patents in the air-conditioning industry

Landmark Installations

• The Sistine Chapel in Rome
• Singapore Expo, Asia's largest exhibition center
• The Great Hall of the People in Beijing
• George Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate and Gardens in Mount Vernon, Virginia
• Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence, Italy

Recent Wins

• Delhi International Airport
• Carrefour
• Holland AmericaCruise Line
• Shanghai World Financial Center
• Tour Granite office tower (Paris)
• 2008 Beijing Games – 69% of HVAC contracts awarded including the Water Cube and Bird’s Nest
• Mayo Clinic (U.S.)
• Industrial Culture Building (Korea)

Awards

Recent Innovations

Sustainability
From 2000 to 2008, Carrier reduced its air emissions by 56 percent and water usage by 39 percent. Since 2006, the company lowered its greenhouse gas emissions by 18 percent. In 2008, Carrier’s Montluel, France, facility became the first industrial site in the country to use 100 percent green electricity from renewable sources.

Parent Company
United Technologies Corporation (www.utc.com) provides high technology products and services to the building systems and aerospace industries worldwide through its industry-leading businesses: Carrier, Hamilton Sundstrand, Otis, Pratt & Whitney, Sikorsky, UTC Fire & Security and UTC Power. It is the 39th largest U.S. corporation (2008 list, Fortune) and the 59th largest publicly held manufacturer in the world (2008 list, Industry Week).

Corporate Headquarters

Carrier Corporation
One Carrier Place
Farmington, CT 06032
USA