According to Helios Technologies' Q3 2026 earnings report, the company's Italian subsidiary Faster on November 5 secured its first data center thermal management product order, marking its official entry into the AI liquid cooling supply chain. Faster specializes in hydraulic quick-connect fittings and has extended its technology to fluid connection components required for liquid cooling systems, responding to rising power consumption in AI servers. The rapid-connect fluid couplers are designed to link and disconnect cooling liquid pipelines within data center cooling systems, requiring high sealing integrity and reliability to prevent leaks that could impact server operations.
Helios' Chief Executive stated that Faster's achievement of the first thermal management order fulfills the company's goal of entering the data center market by year-end. Helios posted Q3 2026 revenues of $230 million, up 4% year-over-year and marking a record third quarter, with hydraulics business growing 15%.