Ingersoll-Rand plc (NYSE: IR), Swords, Ireland, reported sales for the first quarter of $2.9 billion, up 0.2 percent over the same period a year ago. Profit nearly tripled to $152.4 million.
Industrial sales were $680.6 million for the first quarter, a 6.7 percent decrease year-over-year.
Climate solutions sales were $2.2 billion, an increase of 2.5 percent compared to the same period a year earlier.