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The Company That Was Made for the Pandemic
How Trane Technologies’ Mike Lamach turned an also-ran in air conditioning into a market leader with an environmental and socially conscious bent.
Financial crises, pandemics are no sweat for Trane and its CEO.
Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
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Back in January, when global pandemics were still just the stuff of bad dreams and horror films, I took an informal poll of industrial analysts and investors asking which chief executive officer they thought deserved more attention. They almost unanimously pointed to Michael Lamach of Trane Technologies Plc.