Who makes Amana AC is Daikin Comfort Technologies Manufacturing, subsidiary of Daikin Industries, Japanese company that is largest HVAC manufacturer in world, which acquired Goodman Manufacturing in 2012 including Amana brand and manufactures AC units in Waller, Texas near Houston. Amana AC units including ASX14 14 SEER single stage, ASXC16 16 SEER two-stage, and ASXC18 18 SEER variable speed are made in Houston, Texas plant that is 4 million square feet, largest HVAC factory in US, employing over 5,000 workers and producing about 1 million HVAC units per year including AC, heat pumps, furnaces, and air handlers, with final assembly, refrigerant charging, and run testing done in Texas, with some components sourced globally including China but major assembly US. Daikin Industries, headquartered in Osaka, Japan, founded in 1924, acquired Goodman Manufacturing in 2012 for 3.7 billion dollars from private equity firm Hellman & Friedman, including Goodman brand and Amana brand. Amana brand originally founded in 1934 in Middle Amana, Iowa as Amana Refrigeration making refrigerators, later acquired by Goodman in 1997. Since Daikin acquisition, Amana AC shares factory, engineering, and many common components like Copeland scroll compressors with Goodman and Daikin brand AC like DX14 and DX16, but positioned as premium line with better warranty at lifetime unit replacement and ComfortBridge technology, costing 10 to 15 percent more than Goodman. Label says Assembled in USA with domestic and foreign components. So Amana AC made by Daikin Comfort Technologies in Houston, Texas, owned by Daikin Industries Japan.
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