Midea RAC Expands Louisville Research Center With New HVAC Lab, Showroom

Midea Residential Air Conditioning is expanding its North American product development and training capabilities with the opening of new facilities dedicated to HVAC and water solutions at the Midea America Research Center in Louisville, Kentucky.

The investment is part of the broader expansion of MARC, which now spans 157,000 square feet. For Midea RAC, the expansion includes a new 16,000-square-foot laboratory dedicated to product development and testing of residential HVAC and water solutions, as well as a showroom designed to support product demonstrations and hands-on training.

The expansion is the latest of Midea’s investments in North American HVAC R&D. MARC comprises a multidisciplinary team spanning market research and regulatory compliance, along with performance testing, structural engineering and IoT. Bringing these functions together supports the development of localized product solutions and professional services.

The expanded space gives Midea RAC’s engineering team additional resources to develop and test innovations for the North American market, including all-climate heat pump technologies and Midea’s growing EVOX platform. It also creates a dedicated environment where industry partners can gain hands-on experience with Midea equipment and Easy Upgrade solutions designed to simplify HVAC replacement and installation.

The space, which complements Midea’s additional training facility in Dallas, provides distributors with a dedicated location to bring contractor partners for training on Midea’s inverter-driven heat pump technologies, including the EVOX platform. Midea’s dedicated training team delivers a full suite of certified courses covering HVAC system application and installation. Training combines hands-on labs and real equipment instruction with live virtual classes — some of which are NATE-certified. Because the equipment is operational, instructors can simulate system issues and service scenarios in a controlled environment.

Midea RAC also works with university and co-op programs to provide engineering students with experience alongside its Louisville-based team. Co-op students from local universities and schools across the country will gain exposure to heat pump product development in an active research environment.

MARC first opened in Louisville in 2015 and has since grown into an important U.S. center for Midea’s engineering and product development work.