Who makes which HVAC brands? Eight parent groups own or license the 48 residential brand names in our table: Carrier, Trane Technologies, Lennox, Daikin, Paloma Rheem, Bosch, Johnson Controls and Mitsubishi Electric. Two recent deals moved the makers of York, Coleman, Luxaire, Maytag and Frigidaire equipment to new owners.
Key Takeaways
- Carrier’s 2025 annual report names Carrier, Bryant, Heil, Day & Night and Toshiba among its established brands.
- Payne no longer sells new equipment under its own name: its site says “Payne is now WeatherMaker by Carrier.”
- Bosch closed its purchase of Johnson Controls’ residential HVAC business on July 31, 2025, and holds long-term licenses to the York and Hitachi names.
- Rheem completed its purchase of Nortek Global HVAC on October 7, 2024, adding Frigidaire, Maytag, Gibson and Intertherm.
- Daikin has owned Goodman since November 1, 2012, and the Amana site states the brand is “Manufactured under license by Daikin.”
- A NIST study judged energy increases of 30% from improper installation “plausible”, a gap no badge closes.
Who makes which HVAC brands? The 2026 ownership table
Eight parent groups sit behind the residential brand names we traced, and every row below cites the parent’s own filing, release or brand-site legal line. The answer to who makes which HVAC brands has shifted with five moves since October 2024, so lists older than August 2025 are out of date.
| Parent group | Residential brand names | How held | Primary document |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrier Global | Carrier, Bryant, WeatherMaker (formerly Payne), Heil, Day & Night, Tempstar, Comfortmaker, Arcoaire, KeepRite, Airquest, Toshiba | Owned; Heil through Airquest are the seven International Comfort Products brands | 2025 Form 10-K; ICP brand page; payne.com |
| Trane Technologies | Trane, American Standard, RunTru, Ameristar | Owned | Release, Oct 1, 2026; Trane submittal sheet, Sept 2026 |
| Lennox International | Lennox, Armstrong Air, AirEase, Concord, Ducane, Allied, MagicPak, ADP, Samsung ductless | Owned; Samsung through a 49.9% joint venture | 2025 Form 10-K |
| Daikin Industries | Daikin, Goodman, Amana | Owned; Amana made under license | Daikin release, Mar 11, 2022; Amana legal line |
| Paloma Rheem | Rheem, Ruud, Sure Comfort, WeatherKing, Friedrich, Frigidaire, Maytag, Gibson, Intertherm, Partners Choice, GENERAL (formerly Fujitsu General) | Owned; Frigidaire and Maytag made under license | Rheem releases, 2024; Nordyne site; GENERAL notices, 2025 |
| Bosch | Bosch, York (residential), Coleman, Luxaire, Champion, Guardian, Evcon, TempMaster, Hitachi | Owned; York and Hitachi names under long-term license | Johnson Controls 8-K, 2024; Bosch release, Aug 1, 2025 |
| Johnson Controls | YORK trademark (commercial equipment) | Owned | Fiscal 2025 Form 10-K |
| Mitsubishi Electric | Mitsubishi Electric ductless | Sold in the US through a 50% joint venture with Trane | Trane 2025 10-K, Exhibit 21 |
Size differs sharply. Carrier reported 2025 net sales of $21,747 million and Trane Technologies $21,321.9 million, against $5,195 million at Lennox. Those totals include commercial and transport businesses, not just home equipment.
The ductless rows are the easiest to misread. Lennox distributes Samsung equipment through a joint venture, Mitsubishi Electric shares a US joint venture with Trane, and the former Fujitsu General now belongs to the Paloma Rheem group, so the US partner behind a ductless mini split is often a different company from the name on the wall unit.
Which HVAC brands changed owners, and who makes them now?
Five moves since October 2024 changed who makes which HVAC brands. The two biggest put Maytag and Frigidaire equipment production under Rheem and York, Coleman and Luxaire residential equipment under Bosch.
- October 7, 2024. Rheem completed its purchase of Nortek Global HVAC from Madison Industries. The business, based in O’Fallon, Missouri with a plant in Saltillo, Mexico, joined Rheem’s Global Air division and now trades as Nordyne.
- July 31, 2025. Bosch completed the purchase of Johnson Controls’ residential and light commercial HVAC business, including the Johnson Controls-Hitachi joint venture. Johnson Controls put the total value at $8.1 billion, its own share at about $6.7 billion, and the unit’s fiscal 2023 revenue at about $4.5 billion.
- August 22, 2025. Fujitsu General became a member of the Paloma Rheem group. It took the trade name GENERAL Inc. from January 1, 2026, and its US subsidiary was slated to become GENERAL HVAC Solutions America, Inc.
- Payne folded into WeatherMaker. Payne’s site now directs owners to WeatherMaker by Carrier for replacements and keeps Payne manuals online. It gives no transition date.
- July 1, 2026. Carrier completed the sale of Riello, a European burner and boiler maker, to Ariston Group for about $440 million. Carrier’s US residential names did not change.
Who owns the name vs who makes the box: licensed HVAC brands
For several famous names, the company that owns the trademark does not build the equipment. The maker licenses the name, and the brand sites say so in their legal lines.
Correction to most brand lists
Amana, Maytag and Frigidaire heating and cooling equipment is not made by the appliance companies those names suggest. The Amana site reads “Manufactured under license by Daikin.” The Maytag HVAC site reads “Manufactured under license by Nordyne, O’Fallon, MO.” The Frigidaire HVAC site says the name “is used under license from Electrolux Consumer Products, Inc.”
York is the newest case. Johnson Controls still lists YORK among its own brands in its fiscal 2025 annual report, while Bosch says it is “acquiring long-term licenses to use the brand names for York and Hitachi.” A York furnace bought today comes from Bosch; York commercial equipment still comes from Johnson Controls.
Are sister brands the same equipment?
Sometimes they share a model family, but no filing we read says sister brands are identical. The documents show shared platforms in specific places, not across whole brand families.
One Trane Technologies submittal sheet dated September 2026 covers both the RunTru by Trane and Ameristar by American Standard versions of one air conditioner series; the first digit of the model number is the brand code. Lennox’s 2025 annual report says its Allied Air business also sells “through private label brands.”
Daikin paid $3.7 billion for Goodman in 2012. Its 2022 release says the Daikin and Goodman brand organizations, run as separate units until then, were merged, and that Goodman’s four US factories were consolidated in 2017 at the Daikin Texas Technology Park. What still differs between sister brands is the dealer network and the paperwork, so compare the warranty terms and registration rules line by line rather than assuming they match.
Where are the big HVAC brands built?
Only some parents name their residential plants. Where a filing or release states a location, we list it; where it does not, we leave it blank rather than repeat forum claims.
| Brand family | Plant locations stated by the parent | Document |
|---|---|---|
| Lennox, Allied Air brands | Saltillo, Mexico; Marshalltown, Iowa; Orangeburg, South Carolina; Grenada, Mississippi | Lennox 2025 10-K, properties table |
| Daikin, Goodman, Amana | Daikin Texas Technology Park, Waller, Texas, “the largest factory of the Daikin Group” | Daikin release, Mar 11, 2022 |
| York, Coleman, Luxaire | Norman, Oklahoma (almost 1,300 production and development staff) | Bosch release, Aug 1, 2025 |
| Frigidaire, Maytag, Gibson, Intertherm | Saltillo, Mexico | Rheem release, Sept 4, 2024 |
| Trane, American Standard | Not itemized; 38 plants worldwide across all businesses | Trane 2025 10-K |
| Carrier, Bryant, ICP brands | Not itemized; about 850 sites across all businesses | Carrier 2025 10-K |
Saltillo appears twice: Lennox and Nordyne both list manufacturing there. Bosch says the deal added about 3,400 US employees. Plant location says nothing about reliability on its own, and it is not a pricing signal either; our federal equipment price index tracks that separately.
Carrier vs Trane vs Goodman: does the parent company matter?
We publish no brand ranking, because no federal dataset compares brand reliability. The federal research that does exist points at installation: a 2014 NIST simulation study concluded that “Increases of energy use by 30 % due to improper installation practices seem to be plausible.”
NIST named the faults with the most potential to raise energy use: duct leakage, refrigerant undercharge, an oversized heat pump, low indoor airflow from undersized ducts, and refrigerant overcharge. At a 30% undercharge, energy use rose on the order of 20% regardless of climate or building type. A low charge means refrigerant escaped somewhere, which is why topping up refrigerant is not a fix.
Duct leakage hit hardest in a slab-on-grade house: 26% more energy in Chicago and Minneapolis and 18% in Houston. None of those faults depends on the badge; they depend on duct design and airflow and on a real load calculation.
Within one parent, brands often differ by sales channel: Lennox says its Lennox brand is sold directly to installing dealers while its Allied Air brands go through independent wholesale distributors. Spend the comparison effort on vetting the installing contractor and on knowing what installation day should include.
How can you tell who made the unit you already own?
Read the nameplate on the outdoor unit and the furnace or air handler. The brand, model and serial number are printed there, and the model number often encodes the brand; on the Trane sheet above, digit 1 separates RunTru from Ameristar.
- Photograph the nameplate on each piece of equipment.
- Match the brand to its parent in the ownership table above.
- Decode the build date with our serial number lookup guide.
- Check the change log above for a sale since your install date, then call the support line printed on your warranty paperwork.
How we researched this
Research date: October 8, 2026. We opened more than 40 company and federal documents and cite 23: SEC filings on EDGAR, parent press releases, brand-site legal lines and one NIST study. Freshness: 7 dated 2026, 6 live brand pages read in October 2026, 4 from 2025, 3 from 2024 and 3 older (2012, 2014, 2022).
Excluded: listicles, lead-gen and software-vendor pages (ownership claims unsourced), forum reliability anecdotes, market-share estimates (no federal series), and Midea, Gree, LG and GE Appliances, for which we did not retrieve a parent document mapping US brand names. Update schedule: each February when 10-Ks are filed, and within a week of any announced deal. The full dataset is published under CC BY 4.0.
Frequently asked questions
Who owns Goodman?
Daikin Industries. Daikin completed its purchase of Goodman Global Group on November 1, 2012, for $3.7 billion including debt refinancing, and renamed the US company Daikin Comfort Technologies North America on April 1, 2022. Daikin said the Goodman, Amana and Quietflex brand names would continue.
Are Trane and American Standard the same company?
Yes. Both belong to Trane Technologies, whose October 1, 2026 release launched cold climate heat pumps “across its Trane and American Standard Heating & Air Conditioning brands.” Its value lines are RunTru by Trane and Ameristar by American Standard.
Who makes York, Coleman and Luxaire now?
Bosch. Its purchase of Johnson Controls’ residential and light commercial HVAC business closed July 31, 2025. Johnson Controls listed York, Coleman, Luxaire, Champion, Guardian, Evcon and TempMaster among the brands the business would carry, and Bosch holds a long-term license to the York name.
Who makes Payne air conditioners now?
Carrier. Payne’s website states “Payne is now WeatherMaker by Carrier” and keeps manuals and warranty documents online for existing Payne owners, with replacements sold under WeatherMaker. Carrier’s 2025 annual report lists Bryant, Heil and Day & Night alongside Carrier.
Who makes Maytag and Frigidaire HVAC equipment?
Nordyne, the former Nortek Global HVAC, which Rheem bought on October 7, 2024. The Maytag HVAC site says its equipment is “Manufactured under license by Nordyne, O’Fallon, MO,” and the Frigidaire HVAC site says that name is licensed from Electrolux Consumer Products.
Is Carrier or Trane better?
No federal dataset ranks brands. The two parents are similar in size, with 2025 sales of $21,747 million at Carrier and $21,321.9 million at Trane Technologies. NIST found a 30% refrigerant undercharge raised energy use about 20% whatever the climate, and called 30% increases from improper installation plausible.
Sources
- Carrier Global. “Form 10-K, fiscal 2025.” https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1783180/000178318026000008/carr-20251231.htm Accessed October 2026.
- Carrier. “Carrier Completes Sale of Riello to Ariston Group.” https://www.carrier.com/commercial/en/eu/news/news-article/carrier-completes-sale-of-riello-to-ariston-group.html Accessed October 2026.
- Payne. “Payne is now WeatherMaker by Carrier.” https://www.payne.com/payne-is-now-weathermaker Accessed October 2026.
- International Comfort Products. “Our Brands.” https://icpusa.com/en/us/our-brands Accessed October 2026.
- Trane Technologies. “Trane Technologies Introduces Residential Cold Climate Heat Pumps.” https://investors.tranetechnologies.com/news-and-events/news-releases/news-release-details/2026/Trane-Technologies-Introduces-Residential-Cold-Climate-Heat-Pumps-Built-for-Extreme-Winter-Performance/default.aspx Accessed October 2026.
- Trane Technologies. “Form 10-K, fiscal 2025.” https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1466258/000162828026005731/tt-20251231.htm Accessed October 2026.
- Trane Technologies. “Exhibit 21, Subsidiaries.” https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1466258/000162828026005731/ex21subsidiarylisting2025.htm Accessed October 2026.
- Trane Technologies. “Product and Submittal Data ODR-PSD033C-EN.” https://elibrary.tranetechnologies.com/public/residential-hvac/Literature/Product%20and%20Submittal%20Data/ODR-PSD033C-EN_09252026.pdf Accessed October 2026.
- Lennox International. “Form 10-K, fiscal 2025.” https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1069202/000106920226000028/lii-20251231.htm Accessed October 2026.
- Daikin Industries. “U.S. Subsidiary Goodman Renamed Daikin Comfort Technologies North America.” https://www.daikin.com/press/2022/20220311 Accessed October 2026.
- Daikin Industries. “Completion of the Goodman Acquisition.” https://kyodonewsprwire.jp/release/201211018035 Accessed October 2026.
- Amana. “Home page legal line.” https://www.amana-hac.com/ Accessed October 2026.
- Rheem. “Rheem Announces Intent to Acquire Nortek Global HVAC.” https://www.rheem.com/about/news-releases/rheem-announces-intent-to-acquire-nortek-global-hvac Accessed October 2026.
- Rheem. “Rheem Acquires Nortek Global HVAC.” https://www.rheem.com/about/news-releases/rheem%C2%AE-acquires-nortek-global-hvac/ Accessed October 2026.
- Nordyne. “Home page.” https://www.nortekhvac.com/ Accessed October 2026.
- Maytag HVAC. “Home page legal line.” https://www.maytaghvac.com/ Accessed October 2026.
- Frigidaire HVAC. “Home page legal line.” https://www.frigidairehvac.com/ Accessed October 2026.
- Fujitsu General. “Fujitsu General Starts anew as a Member of the Paloma Rheem Group.” https://www.generalww.com/global/news/2025/0822/index.html Accessed October 2026.
- Fujitsu General. “Notice of Plans to Change Trade Names of Consolidated Subsidiaries.” https://www.generalww.com/global/news/2025/1218/index.html Accessed October 2026.
- Johnson Controls. “Form 8-K, Exhibit 99.1, July 23, 2024.” https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/833444/000083344424000044/ex991.htm Accessed October 2026.
- Johnson Controls. “Form 10-K, fiscal 2025.” https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/833444/000083344425000097/jci-20250930.htm Accessed October 2026.
- Bosch. “Bosch wants to grow significantly faster than the market in the heating, ventilation, and cooling sector.” https://www.bosch-presse.de/pressportal/de/en/bosch-wants-to-grow-significantly-faster-than-the-market-in-the-heating-ventilation-and-cooling-sector-278016.html Accessed October 2026.
- NIST. “Sensitivity Analysis of Installation Faults on Heat Pump Performance, Technical Note 1848.” https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/TechnicalNotes/NIST.TN.1848.pdf Accessed October 2026.
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