It’s one thing to develop a massive, 53-foot long exhibit trailer to be pulled behind a polished big rig cab. It’s quite another to learn that HVAC manufacturer, Modine has spent the past year developing the impressive learning-lab-on-wheels that made its debut at this year’s AHR Expo.
The kicker is that the gleaming behemoth rolled out from Orlando, after the AHR Expo, to begin a 10,000-mile, cross-country tour of North America – branded The Innovation Tour.
According to Ray Schaffart, Marketing and Sales Support Manager, Modine’s Innovation Tour is a traveling road show that will take the manufacturer’s technology to the front doorsteps of thousands of allied trade professionals – architects, engineers and design/build contractors – who might otherwise miss the chance to see the gear in action, and to speak with Modine pros.
“The North American tour of 46-cities,” said Schaffart, “
is designed to showcase Modine’s heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems, solutions we’ve been hard at work on for 100 years. It also emphasizes Modine’s commitment to the Building HVAC markets, an area we are targeting for significant growth”
The trailer – which impressively unfolds in “Transformer” style into three stages and a slide-out classroom – includes an Atherion™ packaged rooftop ventilation system, an operating school HVAC unit, an interactive Modine Controls System module, the newly AHRI-certified geothermal systems, and finally, Effinty™ and Hot Dawg™ unit heaters.