Carrier Corporation - Other Information

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Carrier is a roughly $13.5 billion-a-year manufacturing company. Carrier makes this much by outsourcing parts and production lines to its plant in Mexico. Carrier also outsources other parts. Carrier outsources some of their motors from India. Carrier used to get its copper tubing from a plant in Jacksonville Texas which they closed down and now gets its copper from China.

The Carrier Corporation built the new plant in Mexico as a green building. Carrier Corp.’s Mexico Factory. First HVAC Factory In The World To Receive LEED Gold Certification.

The Carrier Corporation historically has been based in Syracuse, New York where Willis Carrier moved his facilities from New Jersey in the 1930s. During the late 20th century, when it was acquired by UTC, it was Central New York State's largest manufacturer. Due to increasing labor and union costs in the Central New York area, Carrier has substantially downsized its presence in Syracuse, with manufacturing work being moved to a variety of domestic and international locations. Meanwhile, managerial employees were relocated closer to UTC's Connecticut corporate headquarters which represented a challenge to the local economy. Over the course of 2011 the majority of the manufacturing buildings of the Syracuse campus were demolished at a cost of nearly 14 million dollars. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs the Syracuse Campus remains the primary engineering and design center for all Carrier products with over 1,000 employees and contractors on site.

Carrier purchased the naming rights to the Carrier Dome, the football and basketball arena at Syracuse University. Despite being named for an air conditioner manufacturer, the Carrier Dome is not air conditioned.

Carrier has numerous air conditioner models that are certified by Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers (AHAM).