JCI to buy cooling components maker
18th February 2026
USA: Johnson Controls has signed an agreement to acquire Alloy Enterprises, a Boston-based company focused on a proprietary platform with advanced direct liquid cooling components.
Johnson Controls says that the move will expand its capabilities in the high growth data centre cooling segment.
Founded in 2020, Alloy Enterprises is a thermal, mechanical and materials sciences technology innovator with advanced direct liquid cooling components that can enable up to a 35% improvement in thermal management efficiency and reduce pressure drop by up to 75%.
“This acquisition is about enabling our customers to stay ahead of fast-changing compute demands by adding another core technology that enables us to optimise the overall thermal management architecture of a data centre,” said Lei Schlitz, vice president and president, global products & solutions.
“With the addition of Alloy Enterprises, we are poised to set new standards in cooling efficiency and capacity and help customers accelerate time to market with the right integrated technologies,” he added.
Designed and manufactured in the US, Alloy Enterprises boasts a patented stack forging process that creates leak-tight, single-piece components with embedded microgeometries. These enable maximum heat transfer, reduced pressure drop by up to 4×, and improved thermal resistance by over 35%, dramatically lowering pumping power and energy use.
