SLB to Acquire Kelvion, Expanding its Role Across Data Center Infrastructure
Frequently Asked Questions
Why are you acquiring Kelvion?
- This acquisition builds on the position SLB has established in the data center market over the past three years. As AI drives sustained investment in digital infrastructure, cooling has become one of the industry's most critical challenges. Kelvion adds a leading thermal management business that complements our existing capabilities and accelerates our growth in an attractive long-term market. Together, we can deliver more integrated and efficient solutions for customers while building on the expertise and relationships we have already developed.
- The acquisition of Kelvion immediately increases SLB’s addressable market in data centers – more than doubling our revenue opportunity per gigawatt of delivered capacity — and allows us to scale both our offerings and the global reach of the business.
- Revenue synergies will come primarily from expanding Kelvion’s technologies across SLB's existing data center customers and introducing them in new geographies, particularly Asia and the Middle East. We also see opportunities to incorporate Kelvion technologies into SLB's modular-infrastructure offering as well as expand their application across adjacent energy and industrial markets.
Why now?
- SLB’s Data Center Solutions business has grown rapidly since its launch in 2023, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) exceeding 90 percent between 2024 and 2026. This business is on track to exit 2027 at an expected annualized revenue run-rate exceeding $2 billion.
- This transaction accelerates our ambition to become an industrial technology partner to the data center industry and help customers address the growing infrastructure complexity required to scale AI. Kelvion advances our path toward more integrated data center infrastructure solutions, expands our addressable market and allows us to scale both our offerings and the global reach of the business.
What are the key offerings of Kelvion?
- Kelvion is a global developer and manufacturer of heat exchange solutions, delivering leading thermal management solutions that enable its customers to ensure reliable and efficient operations.
- Its portfolio includes plate heat exchangers, evaporators, heat rejection and recovery solutions, engine and generator cooling solutions, process heat transfer solutions, transformer cooling systems and coils, heat pumps, refrigeration and various thermal-management technologies used in data centers, district energy systems and industrial facilities.
- Recent wins include cooling solutions for hyperscale and AI-focused data center developments exceeding 200 MW and 350 MW, demonstrating Kelvion's ability to deliver thermal management technologies for some of the industry's largest and most demanding projects.
- Kelvion’s solutions are designed to improve energy efficiency, reliability and sustainability while supporting high-performance cooling and heat-recovery applications.
How do Kelvion’s thermal management technologies compare to other offerings in the market? What makes Kelvion’s products attractive to the market?
- Kelvion has established a leading position in data center cooling through differentiated thermal-management technologies, deep application expertise and scaled manufacturing capabilities. Its proprietary technologies, including free-flow corrugation designs and modular K°Flex systems, deliver performance and efficiency advantages across the high-growth data center market and other complex industrial applications.
- What makes Kelvion particularly attractive is the combination of technology, engineering expertise, customer relationships and manufacturing scale. As AI workloads increase power density and heat loads, thermal management is becoming a critical enabling technology. Combined with SLB's strengths in engineering, modular infrastructure and system integration, these capabilities position us to deliver more integrated solutions across the data center value chain.
What are the general financial terms of the transaction?
- SLB will purchase the business for approximately $3.4 billion in cash and will assume approximately $0.7 billion of debt.
When do you expect the transaction to close?
- We anticipate the transaction closing during the first half of 2027, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals.
How will customers benefit from this proposed deal?
- Kelvion brings a broad set of thermal management products and solutions relevant to data center and industrial needs where modularity, quality and speed are becoming critical elements, in which SLB excels. Data centers are becoming more sophisticated and energy-intensive, and customers are increasingly looking for partners that can optimize how critical infrastructure systems work together across the facility and help bring new capacity online faster. By combining Kelvion’s thermal-management expertise with SLB’s engineering, modular infrastructure and digital capabilities, we will be able to deliver more integrated cooling solutions, accelerate innovation, improve thermal efficiency and more directly embed thermal management into our modular infrastructure offering.
How does this fit with your long-term growth strategies in Data Centers?
- SLB’s Data Center Solutions business has grown rapidly over the past three years and expects cumulative deliveries to exceed 2 gigawatts globally by year-end.
- The company combines design engineering, modular offsite fabrication, integrated technology and project execution expertise with global scale, to deliver data center solutions from design through deployment, installation and commissioning. This modular approach can reduce onsite construction complexity and accelerate time to build by up to 40%.
- This transaction enables us to integrate into our offering mission-critical cooling technology solutions for data centers, with a deep focus on the energy efficiency of these key pieces of critical infrastructure.
- SLB has an ambition for its combined data center solutions business to achieve revenue between $4.5 billion and $5 billion in 2028 with adjusted EBITDA between $700 million and $800 million.
How will Kelvion be run inside SLB?
- Both the data center infrastructure and diversified industrial businesses within Kelvion will become part of SLB New Energy and Industrial, where SLB’s existing Data Center Solutions business is already managed.
How many Kelvion employees will transfer to SLB?
- All 5,800+ employees of Kelvion will become part of SLB.
What is the timeline for integration?
- SLB expects the integration process to be phased and carefully managed, with certain areas of the business potentially integrating at an accelerated pace where appropriate after closing. Leveraging its extensive experience in large-scale integrations, SLB will focus on ensuring a smooth and efficient transition while minimizing disruption for customers and employees.
- SLB and Kelvion will continue to operate separately and independently until the transaction closes.
How does this impact SLB’s sustainability commitment?
- Both SLB and Kelvion have strong commitments to and a reputation for focusing on sustainability, and both companies have continued to meet and exceed their external commitments for emissions reduction, energy efficiency and reduced waste. For more information, you can visit both companies’ websites here and here.
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