Who Owns American Standard?

The American Standard name came from the 1929 merger of the American Radiator Company, founded in 1892, and the Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Company, founded in 1875. The combined American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Corporation sold both heating equipment and bathroom fixtures, and simplified its name to American Standard in 1967.

Through the mid 20th century the company was a major maker of boilers, radiators and plumbing products. In 1984 American Standard acquired The Trane Company of La Crosse, Wisconsin, making air conditioning its largest business. The American Standard name began appearing on residential HVAC equipment built in Trane's Tyler, Texas complex.

American Standard Companies broke itself apart in 2007 under investor pressure, selling the plumbing business and spinning off WABCO. What remained was essentially Trane, and Ingersoll Rand bought it in a deal completed June 5, 2008 for roughly $10.1 billion. Under Ingersoll Rand, American Standard continued as the value oriented sister badge to Trane on residential systems.

In 2020 Ingersoll-Rand plc spun off its industrial segment and renamed the remaining climate company Trane Technologies. American Standard remains in the portfolio as the second residential badge: same Tyler production lines, same compressor and coil families, sold through a separate dealer channel. More than 5 million American Standard systems are installed in US homes.