Johnson Controls, a global leader in energy efficiency, decarbonization, thermal management and mission‑critical building performance, announced the launch of its new traveling Innovation Studio, debuting at the 44th edition of MCE – Mostra Convegno Expocomfort 2026 in Milan, Italy.
The initiative marks the urgency of Johnson Controls’ solutions to enhance affordability, energy security, climate outcomes and competitiveness while also underscoring the company’s commitment to deepening engagement with customers across the continent’s rapidly evolving infrastructure landscape.
A Pan‑European Platform for Innovation
The Innovation Studio will travel to 44 cities, delivering a fully equipped, mobile, interactive technology showcase directly to customers, partners, students and other stakeholders. The tour demonstrates how Johnson Controls is supporting Europe’s accelerated push toward market leadership in critical industries, energy security and boosting the region’s growth and competitiveness.
“Across Europe, customers are navigating some of the most complex energy‑security and affordability challenges in decades, pressures that directly affect how people live, work and deliver essential services,” said Richard Lek, president, EMEA, Johnson Controls. “They expect leadership, not just products. The Innovation Studio reflects how seriously we take that responsibility. By bringing the full breadth of our critical technologies directly to customers, we’re showing how Johnson Controls helps the systems inside Europe’s most important facilities become more resilient, efficient and adaptable for the long term.”
Johnson Controls is already delivering measurable impact across Europe, with data centre cooling technologies that can achieve a 40% reduction in energy consumption while operating with zero on‑site water use and utilising an ultra‑low GWP refrigerant. Its solutions have helped a UK manufacturing plant cut energy use by 52%, enabled a UK data centre to boost efficiency by 8%, and reduced energy consumption by 45% at the company’s own Cork campus. Together, these advances align with EU energy‑efficiency and water‑conservation regulations, making them particularly relevant for sustainability‑focused operators.
Building on these proven results, the company is committed to bringing advanced technologies to even more customers across Europe to help them lower costs, reduce emissions and accelerate their sustainability goals.
Europe’s Most Comprehensive Integrated Building‑Technology Showcase
Throughout the tour, Johnson Controls will present a unified ecosystem of technologies designed to help customers maximize energy efficiency, reduce costs, lower carbon emissions, and optimize operations.
The showcase includes:
- The YORK YK‑HT two‑stage economized centrifugal chiller for data centers and large industrial, pharmaceutical and healthcare campuses, which enables high‑lift, water‑free heat rejection in a compact footprint that is nearly 30% smaller than comparable units and can reduce dry‑cooler requirements by up to 60%, and the YORK YVAM air‑cooled magnetic bearing chiller that is specifically designed for hyperscale and colocation data centers, which helps customers operate more efficiently while delivering one of the industry’s widest operating ranges, operating from ‑29°C to +55°C ambient temperatures while producing chilled water between +15°C and 30°C.
- Johnson Controls’ AI-powered OpenBlue digital platform for monitoring, analytics and continuous performance improvement providing energy savings of up to 10% and 67% lower chiller maintenance costs. Also on display is the industry-leading Metasys Building Automation System that seamlessly integrates HVAC, lighting, fire and security systems, and expands across large campuses or multi-site enterprises supporting up to 1,000 IP devices per server, 60% more than comparable systems.
Immersive environments
Visitors will have direct access to real‑world building scenarios, 3D product visualizations and hands‑on learning environments together with technical experts, live demonstrations and workshops, bringing to life the full capabilities of Johnson Controls’ building‑performance portfolio.
A European Leader With Deep Regional Impact
Across Europe, Johnson Controls supports tens of thousands of high‑stakes environments from research campuses and life‑science labs to universities and food‑and‑beverage operations modernizing and optimizing the systems that keep them running, for example:
- Large‑scale deployment of heat pumps and chillers – Johnson Controls continues to play a leading role in Europe’s heat transformation with the electrification of heating and cooling systems. Impactful installations that are saving customers energy and lowering emissions include EnBW Stuttgart, Stadtwerke Rosenheim, Stadtwerke Giessen, Utrecht & Nieuwegein Aarlborg University Hospital, La Chapelle Cooling Plant in Paris, and hundreds of others In 2024, the company saved its global customer 53% in energy costs and 60% in CO2.
- Data‑Centre thermal infrastructure – Johnson Controls partners with leading hyperscale and colocation customers to deploy high‑efficiency thermal‑management technologies, controls, fire, security and service. Additional mission‑critical projects include large‑scale retrofit and new‑build work across, pharmaceuticals, advanced manufacturing, airports, including Rome Fiumicino and Dubai International Airports.
- European manufacturing strength – Johnson Controls’ manufacturing operations in Holme (Denmark), Nantes (France) and Izmir (Turkey) support an “in‑region‑for‑region” strategy and provide some of the industry’s most expansive testing and validation facilities.
- Service operations across Europe – Johnson Controls maintains one of the industry’s largest service arms, supported by dedicated, trained technicians across the UK and Europe and extensive service‑operations offices and subsidiaries across Western, Central and Southern Europe, including Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany, the Netherlands and Ireland.
For more information: Johnson Controls Innovation Studio (Roadshow)
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