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Honeywell International Inc. is an American publicly traded, multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. It primarily operates in four areas of business: aerospace, building automation, industrial automation, and energy and sustainability solutions (ESS).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Honeywell also owns and operates Sandia National Laboratories under contract with the U.S. Department of Energy. Honeywell is a Fortune 500 company, ranked 115th in 2023.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2024, the corporation had a global workforce of approximately 102,000 employees.<ref name=AnnualR2024 /><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> As of 2025, the current chairman and chief executive officer is Vimal Kapur.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

The corporation's name, Honeywell International Inc., is a product of the merger of Honeywell Inc. and AlliedSignal in 1999. The corporation headquarters were consolidated with AlliedSignal's headquarters in Morristown, New Jersey. The combined company chose the name "Honeywell" because of the considerable brand recognition.<ref name="NYT-AlliedSignal">Template:Cite news</ref> Honeywell was a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average index from 1999 to 2008. Prior to 1999, its corporate predecessors were included dating back to 1925, including early entrants in the computing and thermostat industries.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In 2020, Honeywell rejoined the Dow Jones Industrial Average index.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2021, it moved its stock listing from the New York Stock Exchange to the Nasdaq.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In 2025, Honeywell announced it would split into three companies: Honeywell Automation, Honeywell Aerospace, and Solstice Advanced Materials. It has been estimated that the aerospace and automation businesses could be worth as much as $104 billion and $94 billion, respectively, after the split.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

History

The Butz Thermo-Electric Regulator Company was founded in 1885 when the Swiss-born Albert Butz invented the damper-flapper, a thermostat used to control coal furnaces, bringing automated heating system regulation into homes.<ref name="Votteler-2003">Template:Cite book</ref> In 1888, after a falling out with his investors, Butz left the company and transferred the patents to the legal firm Paul, Sanford, and Merwin, who renamed the company the Consolidated Temperature Controlling Company.<ref name="Votteler-2003" />

As the years passed, CTCC struggled with debt and the company underwent several name changes. After it was renamed the Electric Heat Regulator Company in 1893, W. R. Sweatt, a stockholder in the company, was sold "an extensive list of patents" and named secretary-treasurer.Template:R By 1900, Sweatt had bought out the remaining shares of the company from the other stockholders.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

1906 Honeywell Heating Specialty Company founded

In 1906, Mark Honeywell founded the Honeywell Heating Specialty Company in Wabash, Indiana, to manufacture and market his invention, the mercury seal generator.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

The Honeywell 516, later used as the Interface Message Processor

1922–1934 Mergers and acquisitions

As Honeywell's company grew, thanks in part to the acquisition of Jewell Manufacturing Company in 1922 to better automate his heating system, it began to clash with the Electric Heat Regulator Company now-renamed Minneapolis Heat Regulator Company. In 1927, this led to the merging of both companies into the publicly held Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Company. Honeywell was named the company's first president, alongside W.R. Sweatt as its first chairman.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In 1929, combined assets were valued at over $3.5 million, with less than $1 million in liabilities just months before Black Monday.Template:R In 1931, Minneapolis-Honeywell began a period of expansion and acquisition when they purchased the Time-O-Stat Controls Company, giving the company access to a greater number of patents for their controls systems.

W.R. Sweatt and his son Harold provided 75 years of uninterrupted leadership for the company. W.R. Sweatt survived rough spots and turned an innovative idea – thermostatic heating control – into a thriving business.

1934–1941 International growth

Harold took over in 1934, leading Honeywell through a period of growth and global expansion that set the stage for Honeywell to become a global technology leader. The merger into the Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Company proved to be a saving grace for the corporation.

1934 marked Minneapolis-Honeywell's first foray into the international market, when they acquired the Brown Instrument Company and inherited their relationship with the Yamatake Company of Tokyo, a Japan-based distributor.Template:R Later in 1934, Minneapolis-Honeywell started distributorships across Canada, as well as one in the Netherlands, their first European office. This expansion into international markets continued in 1936, with their first distributorship in London, as well as their first foreign assembly facility being established in Canada. By 1937, ten years after the merger, Minneapolis-Honeywell had over 3,000 employees, with $16 million in annual revenue.<ref name="Votteler-2003" />

World War II

With the outbreak of World War II, Minneapolis-Honeywell was approached by the US military for engineering and manufacturing projects. In 1941, Minneapolis-Honeywell developed a superior tank periscope, camera stabilizers, and the C-1 autopilot.

A World War II-era Honeywell C-1 autopilot control panel

The C-1 revolutionized precision bombing and was ultimately used on the two B-29 bombers that dropped atomic bombs on Japan in 1945. The success of these projects led Minneapolis-Honeywell to open an Aero division in Chicago on October 5, 1942.Template:R This division was responsible for the development of the formation stick to control autopilots, more accurate fuel quantity indicators for aircraft, and the turbo supercharger.Template:R

In 1950, Minneapolis-Honeywell's Aero division was contracted for the controls on the first US nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus.Template:R In 1951, the company acquired Intervox Company for their sonar, ultrasonic, and telemetry technologies. Honeywell also helped develop and manufacture the RUR-5 ASROC for the US Navy.

1950–1970s

In 1953, in cooperation with the USAF Wright-Air Development Center, Honeywell developed an automated control unit, that could control an aircraft through various stages of a flight, from taxiing to takeoff to the point where the aircraft neared its destination and the pilot took over for landing. Called the Automatic Master Sequence Selector, the onboard control operated similarly to a player piano to relay instructions to the aircraft's autopilot at certain way points during the flight, significantly reducing the pilot's workload.<ref>"Punched Tape Controls Aircraft In Flight" Template:Webarchive Popular Mechanics, May 1953, p. 89.</ref> Technologically, this effort had parallels to contemporary efforts in missile guidance and numerical control. Honeywell also developed the Wagtail missile with the USAF.

A Honeywell-Pentax-Spotmatic

From the 1950s until the mid-1970s, Honeywell was the United States' importer of Japanese company Asahi Optical's Pentax cameras and photographic equipment.Template:R These products were labeled "Heiland Pentax" and "Honeywell Pentax" in the U.S. In 1953, Honeywell introduced their most famous product, the T-86 Round thermostat.<ref name="Votteler-2003" />Template:R

A Honeywell thermostat

In 1961, James H. Binger became Honeywell's president and in 1965 its chairman. Binger revamped the company sales approach, placing emphasis on profits rather than on volume. He stepped up the company's international expansion – it had six plants producing 12% of the company's revenue. He officially changed the company's corporate name from "Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co." to "Honeywell", to better represent their colloquial name. Throughout the 1960s, Honeywell continued to acquire other businesses, including Security Burglar Alarm Company in 1969.Template:R

In the 1970s, after one member of a group called FREE<ref name=Halfhill>Bruce Johasen, "Out of Silence", Minnesota History (Spring 2019), 189:

  • "Halfhill steered the group through the administrative channels needed to establish FREE as a student group".</ref> on the Minneapolis campus (U of M) of the University of Minnesota<ref>Neal R. Peirce, "The Great Plains States of America: People, Politics, and Power in the Nine Great Plains States", George J. McLeod (1973), 145; available online, accessed February 7, 2014</ref> asked five major companies with local offices to explain their attitudes toward gay men and women, three responded quickly,<ref>Anon., "Three big companies say they hire Gays", The Advocate (30 September 1970).</ref> insisting that they did not discriminate against gay people in their hiring policies. Only Honeywell objected to hiring gay people.<ref name=Honeywell>Sources: Michael McConnell Files, "Full Equality, a diary" (volumes 1a - d), Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies, U of M Libraries.
  • Letter to FREE from Vice President Gerry E. Morse, Honeywell Inc. (29 June 1970):
    • "We would not employ a known homosexual."</ref> Later in the 1970s, when faced with a denial of access to students, Honeywell "quietly [reversed] its hiring policy".<ref>Lars Bjornson, "A quiet win: Honeywell yields", The Advocate (10 April 1974), 13.</ref>

The beginning of the 1970s saw Honeywell focus on process controls, with Honeywell merging their computer operations with GE's information systems in 1970, and later acquiring GE's process control business.Template:R With the acquisition, Honeywell took over responsibility for GE's ongoing Multics operating system project. The design and features of Multics greatly influenced the Unix operating system. Multics influenced many of the features of Honeywell/GE's GECOS and GCOS8 General Comprehensive Operating System operating systems. Honeywell, Groupe Bull, and Control Data Corporation formed a joint venture in Magnetic Peripherals Inc. which became a major player in the hard disk drive market.Template:R

Honeywell was the worldwide leader in 14-inch disk drive technology in the OEM marketplace in the 1970s and early 1980s, especially with its SMD (Storage Module Drive) and CMD (Cartridge Module Drive). In the second half of the 1970s, Honeywell started to look to international markets again, acquiring the French Compagnie Internationale pour l’Informatique in 1976.Template:R In 1984, Honeywell formed Honeywell High Tech Trading to lease their foreign marketing and distribution to other companies abroad, in order to establish a better position in those markets.Template:R Under Binger's stewardship from 1961 to 1978 he expanded the company into such fields as defense, aerospace, and computing.

During and after the Vietnam Era, Honeywell's defense division produced a number of products, including cluster bombs, missile guidance systems, napalm, and land mines. Minnesota-Honeywell Corporation completed flight tests on an inertia guidance sub-system for the X-20 project at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, utilizing an NF-101B Voodoo by August 1963. The X-20 project was canceled in December 1963.<ref>"Fiery Crash of Drone Plane Kills Two, Injures One – Four Firemen Overcome In Wake Of Blaze." Playground Daily News (Fort Walton Beach, Florida), Volume 16, Number 271, August 20, 1963, p. 1.</ref> The Honeywell Project, founded in 1968, organized protests against the company to persuade it to abandon weapons production<ref>State ex rel. Pillsbury v. Honeywell, Inc., Minnesota Supreme Court, 1971 [1] Template:Webarchive</ref>

In 1980, Honeywell bought Incoterm Corporation to compete in both the airline reservations system networks and bank teller markets.

Honeywell Information Systems

A 1990 Honeywell-Bull Entry Level Mainframe DPS 7 mainframe

In April 1955, Minneapolis-Honeywell started a joint venture with Raytheon called Datamatic to enter the computer market and compete with IBM.Template:R In 1957, their first computer, the DATAmatic 1000, was sold and installed. By the release of the DATAmatic 1000, however, Minneapolis-Honeywell bought Raytheon's interest in Datamatic and turned it into the Electronic Data Processing division, later Honeywell Information Systems (HIS) of Minneapolis-Honeywell.Template:R

Honeywell purchased minicomputer pioneer Computer Control Corporation (3C's) in 1966, renaming it as Honeywell's Computer Control Division. Through most of the 1960s, Honeywell was one of the "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" of computing. IBM was "Snow White", while the dwarfs were the seven significantly smaller computer companies: Burroughs, Control Data Corporation, General Electric, Honeywell, NCR, RCA, and UNIVAC. Later, when their number had been reduced to five,<ref name="HOMC_page_143">Template:Cite book</ref> they were known as "The BUNCH", after their initials: Burroughs, UNIVAC, NCR, Control Data Corporation, and Honeywell.<ref>or DeBUNCH with Digital Equipment Corporation/DEC as the industry's #2. Template:Cite web</ref>

In 1970, Honeywell acquired GE's computer business, rebadging General Electric's 600-series mainframes to Honeywell 6000 series computers, supporting GCOS, Multics, and CP-6, while forming Honeywell Information Systems.<ref name="500...6000">*https://www.starringthecomputer.com/computer.html?c=227

From 1974 to 1987, under the leadership of CEO Edson W. Spencer, the company began a shift away from computers and focused instead on aeronautics and industrial technology.<ref name="NJ2012">Template:Cite web</ref> In 1975, it purchased Xerox Data Systems, whose Sigma computers had a small but loyal customer base. Some of Honeywell's systems were minicomputers, such as their Series 60 Model 6 and Model 62<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and their Honeywell 200. The latter was an attempt to penetrate the IBM 1401 market. In 1987, HIS merged with Groupe Bull, a global joint venture with Compagnie des Machines Bull of France and NEC Corporation of Japan to become Honeywell Bull. In 1988 Honeywell Bull was consolidated into Groupe Bull and in 1989 renamed to Bull, a Worldwide Information Systems Company.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> By 1991, Honeywell was no longer involved in the computer business.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

1985–1999 integrations

Aerospace and defense

1986 marked a new direction for Honeywell, beginning with the acquisition of the Sperry Aerospace Group from the Unisys Corporation.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 1990, Honeywell spun off their Defense and Marine Systems business into Alliant Techsystems, as well as their Test Instruments division and Signal Analysis Center to streamline the company's focus.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Honeywell continues to supply aerospace products including electronic guidance systems, cockpit instrumentation, lighting, and primary propulsion and secondary power turbine engines. In 1996, Honeywell acquired Duracraft and began marketing its products in the home comfort sector.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Honeywell is in the consortium that runs the Pantex Plant that assembles all of the nuclear bombs in the United States arsenal.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, successor to the defense products of AlliedSignal, operates the Kansas City Plant which produces and assembles 85 percent of the non-nuclear components of the bombs.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Home and building controls

Honeywell began the SmartHouse project, to combine heating, cooling, security, lighting, and appliances into one easily controlled system. They continued the trend in 1987 by releasing new security systems, and fire and radon detectors. In 1992, in another streamlining effort, Honeywell combined their Residential Controls, Commercial Systems, and Protections Services divisions into Home and Building Control, which then acquired the Enviracare air cleaner business.Template:R By 1995, Honeywell had condensed into three divisions: Space and Aviation Control, Home and Building Control, and Industrial Control.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Industrial control

Honeywell dissolved its partnership with Yamatake Company and consolidated its Process Control Products Division, Process Management System Division, and Micro Switch Division into one Industrial Control Group in 1998.Template:Citation needed It has further acquired Measurex System and Leeds & Northrup to strengthen its portfolio in 1997.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

1999–2002 merger, takeovers

AlliedSignal and Pittway

Template:Main On June 7, 1999, Honeywell was acquired by AlliedSignal, who elected to retain the Honeywell name for its brand recognition.<ref name="Votteler-2003" /> The former Honeywell moved their headquarters of 114 years to AlliedSignal's in Morristown, New Jersey. While "technically, the deal looks more like an acquisition than a merger...from a strategic standpoint, it is a merger of equals."<ref name="NYT-AlliedSignal"/> AlliedSignal's 1998 revenue was reported at $15.1 billion to Honeywell's $8.4 billion, but together the companies share huge business interests in aerospace, chemical products, automotive parts, and building controls.

The corporate headquarters were consolidated to AlliedSignal's headquarters in Morristown, New Jersey, rather than Honeywell's former headquarters in Minneapolis, Minnesota. When Honeywell closed its corporate headquarters in Minneapolis, over one thousand employees lost their jobs. A few moved to Morristown or other company locations, but the majority were forced to find new jobs or retire. Soon after the merger, the company's stock fell significantly, and did not return to its pre-merger level until 2007.

In 2000, the new Honeywell acquired Pittway for $2.2 billion to gain a greater share of the fire-protection and security systems market, and merged it into their Home and Building Control division,<ref name="Grant-2000">Template:Cite book</ref> taking on Pittway's $167 million in debt. Analyst David Jarrett commented that "while Honeywell offered a hefty premium, it's still getting Pittway for a bargain" at $45.50 per share, despite closing at $29 the week before.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Pittway's Ademco products complemented Honeywell's existing unified controls systems.

General Electric Company

In October 2000, Honeywell, then valued at over $21 billion, accepted a takeover bid from then-CEO Jack Welch of General Electric.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The American Department of Justice cleared the merger, while "GE teams swooped down on Honeywell" and "GE executives took over budget planning and employee reviews." However, on July 3, 2001, the European Commission's competition commissioner, Mario Monti, blocked the move.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> This decision was taken on the grounds that with GE's dominance of the large jet engine market, led by the General Electric CF34 turbofan engine, its leasing services (GECAS), and Honeywell's portfolio of regional jet engines and avionics, the new company would be able to "bundle" products and stifle competition through the creation of a horizontal monopoly.<ref name="usdoj.gov">Charles James, "International Antitrust in the Bush Administration" Template:Webarchive, September 21, 2001</ref><ref name="honeywellinfo"/>

US regulators disagreed, finding that the merger would improve competition and reduce prices; United States Assistant Attorney General Charles James called the EU's decision "antithetical to the goals of antitrust law enforcement."<ref name="usdoj.gov"/><ref name="honeywellinfo">Template:Cite web</ref> This led to a drop in morale and general tumult throughout Honeywell.Template:Citation needed The then-CEO Michael Bonsignore was fired as Honeywell looked to turn their business around.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>

2002–2014 acquisitions and further expansion

A Honeywell glass cockpit, sold under the brand BendixKing

In January 2002, Knorr-Bremse —who had been operating in a joint venture with Honeywell International Inc. —assumed full ownership of its ventures in Europe, Brazil, and the USA. Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems became a subsidiary of Knorr-Bremse AG.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In February 2002, Honeywell's board appointed their next CEO and chairman, David M. Cote. Since 2002, Honeywell has made more than 80 acquisitions and 60 divestitures,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and increasing its labor force to 131,000 as a result of these acquisitions.Template:Citation needed Honeywell's stock nearly tripled from $35.23 in April 2002 to $99.39 in January 2015.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Honeywell made a £1.2bn ($2.3bn) bid for Novar plc in December 2004.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>The offer was £798m or £1.85 per share for each Novar share, with another £331m for preference shares and debt.</ref> The acquisition was finalized in March 2005.<ref name="Novar">Template:Cite news</ref> In October 2005, Honeywell bought out Dow's 50% stake in UOP for $825 million, giving them complete control over the joint venture in petrochemical and refining technology.<ref name=":UOP2">Template:Cite web</ref> In May 2010, Honeywell outbid UK-based Cinven and acquired the French company Sperian Protection for $1.4 billion, which was then incorporated into its automation and controls safety unit.<ref name="Korn-2010">Template:Cite news</ref>

2015–present

In 2015, the headquarters were moved to Morris Plains, New Jersey.<ref>Tom Bergeron, NJBiz. "Honeywell opens 'truly awesome building' in Morris Plains Template:Webarchive." November 16, 2015. Retrieved May 17, 2017.</ref> The headquarters in Morris Plains included a 475,000-square-foot building on 40 acres.

In December 2015, Honeywell acquired Elster for US$5.1B, entering the space of gas, electricity, and water meters with a specific focus on smart meters.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Honeywell International Inc. then acquired the 30% stake in UOP Russell LLC it didn't own already for roughly $240 million in January 2016.<ref>Tess Stynes, The Wall Street Journal. “Honeywell Buys Remaining UOP Russell Stake for $240 Million Template:Webarchive.” Jan 6, 2016. Jan 8, 2016.</ref>

In April 2016, Honeywell acquired Xtralis, a provider of aspirating smoke detection, perimeter security technologies, and video analytics software, for $480 million, from funds advised by Pacific Equity Partners and Blum Capital Partners.<ref>Street Insider. “Honeywell (HON) Announces Completion of $480M Xtralis Acquisition Template:Webarchive.” April 1, 2016. April 1, 2016.</ref> In May 2016, Honeywell International Inc. settled its patent dispute regarding Google subsidiary Nest Labs, whose thermostats Honeywell claimed infringed on several of its patents. Google parent Alphabet Inc. and Honeywell said they reached a "patent cross-license" agreement that "fully resolves" the long-standing dispute. Honeywell sued Nest Labs in 2012.<ref>Joshua Jamerson, The Wall Street Journal. “Honeywell, Google Settle Lawsuit Over Nest Labs Thermostat Template:Webarchive.” May 6, 2016. May 9, 2016.</ref> In 2017, Honeywell opened a new software center in Atlanta, Georgia.<ref name="Trubey">Template:Cite news</ref>

David Cote stepped down as CEO on April 1, 2017, and was succeeded by Darius Adamczyk, who had been promoted to president and chief operating officer (COO) in 2016. Cote served as executive chairman until April 2018.<ref name="WSJ - stepping down">Template:Cite web</ref> In October 2017, Honeywell announced plans to spin off its Homes, ADI Global Distribution, and Transportation Systems businesses into two separate, publicly traded companies by the end of 2018.<ref>PR Newswire. “Honeywell Announces Planned Portfolio Changes Template:Webarchive.” October 10, 2017.</ref>

In 2018, Honeywell spun off both Honeywell Turbo Technologies, now Garrett Advancing Motion, and its consumer products business, Resideo.<ref name="Petters-2018">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Al-Muslim-2018">Template:Cite news</ref> Both companies are publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange. For the fiscal year 2019, Honeywell reported net income of US$6.230 billion, with an annual revenue of US$36.709 billion, a decrease of 19.11% over the previous fiscal cycle. Honeywell's market capitalization was valued at over US$113.25 billion in September 2020.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Honeywell 2018 10-K">Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Honeywell relocated its corporate headquarters in October 2019 to Charlotte, North Carolina. In July 2019, Honeywell moved employees into a temporary headquarters building in Charlotte before their new building was complete.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In 2020, Honeywell Forge launched as an analytics platform software for industrial and commercial applications such as aircraft, building, industrial, worker and cyber-security.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University National Robotics Engineering Center, the Honeywell Robotics was created in Pittsburgh to focus on supply chain transformation.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The Honeywell robotic unloader grabs packages in tractor-trailers then places them on conveyor belts for handlers to sort.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In May 2019, GoDirect Trade launched as an online marketplace for surplus aircraft parts such as engines, electronics, and APU parts.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In March 2020, Honeywell announced that its quantum computer is based on trapped ions. Its expected quantum volume is at least 64, which Honeywell's CEO called the world's most powerful quantum computer.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In November 2021, Honeywell announced the spinoff of its quantum division into a separate company named "Quantinuum".<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In March 2023, Honeywell announced Vimal Kapur as its next CEO, effective June 1, 2023.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In December 2023, Honeywell acquired Carrier Global's security business.Template:Cn

In February 2024, Honeywell filed a lawsuit against Lone Star Aerospace, Inc., alleging that their software products infringe on five patents.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

On October 1, 2024, Honeywell partnered with Google to integrate data with generative AI with an aim to streamline autonomous operations for its customers.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

On October 8, 2024, it was announced that the company's advanced materials division would be spun-off into a new company.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

On February 6, 2025, it was announced that Honeywell would be spun-off into three independent companies after activist investor Elliott Investment Management who is in favor of the split took a major stake in the company. With its aerospace, automation, and previously announced advanced materials segments being split into separate companies.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

On May 22, 2025, the company announced it was acquiring Johnson Matthey's Catalyst Technologies arm for £1.8 billion.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

COVID-19 pandemic

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Honeywell converted some of its manufacturing facilities in Rhode Island, Arizona, Michigan and Germany to produce supplies of personal protective equipment for healthcare workers.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In April 2020, Honeywell began production of N95 masks at the company's factories in Smithfield and Phoenix, aiming to produce 20 million masks a month. Honeywell's facilities in Muskegon and Germany were converted to produce hand sanitiser for government agencies.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Several state governments contracted Honeywell to produce N95 particulate-filtering face masks during the pandemic. The North Carolina Task Force for Emergency Repurposing of Manufacturing (TFERM) awarded Honeywell a contract for the monthly delivery of 100,000 N95 masks. In April 2020, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced a deal with Honeywell to produce 24 million N95 masks to distribute to healthcare workers and first responders.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In May 2020, United States President Donald Trump visited the Honeywell Aerospace Technologies facility in Phoenix, where he acknowledged the "incredibly patriotic and hard-working men and women of Honeywell" for making N95 masks and referred to the company's production as a "miraculous achievement".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In April 2021, Will.i.am and Honeywell collaborated on Xupermask, a mask made of silicon and athletic mesh fabric that has LED lights, 3-speed fans and noise-canceling headphones in the mask.<ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Cbignore</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In November 2024, Honeywell announced its intention to sell its personal protective equipment business to Protective Industrial Products for almost $1.33 billion in cash. The sale of this PPE business is expected to close by the first half of 2025.<ref name="reuters.com">Template:Cite web</ref>

After the divestment of PPE business, the company is planning to retain its gas detection portfolio.<ref name="reuters.com"/>

Business groups

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Honeywell House (Innoteknia) in Kuopio Science Park in Kuopio, Finland
A Honeywell wireless home alarm system control panel
A Honeywell digital compass sensor mounted on a circuit board

The company operates four business groups – Honeywell Aerospace Technologies, Building Automation, Safety and Productivity Solutions (SPS), and Performance Materials and Technologies (PMT).<ref name="Honeywell 2018 10-K" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Business units within the company are as follows:<ref name="Form 8-K 2016">Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Honeywell Aerospace Technologies provides avionics, aircraft engines, flight management systems, and service solutions to manufacturers, airlines, airport operations, militaries, and space programs. It comprises Commercial Aviation, Defense & Space, and Business & General Aviation.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="book">Template:Cite book</ref> In January 2014, Honeywell Aerospace Technologies launched its SmartPath Precision Landing System at Malaga-Costa del Sol Airport in Spain, which augments GPS signals to make them suitable for precision approach and landing, before broadcasting the data to approaching aircraft.<ref>Airtrafficmanagement.net. "Honeywell's SmartPath launches at Malaga Template:Webarchive". May 6, 2014. Retrieved May 7, 2014.</ref>

In July 2014, Honeywell's Transportation Systems merged with the Aerospace division due to similarities between the businesses.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In April 2018, Honeywell announced to develop laser communication products for satellite communication in collaboration with Ball Aerospace and plans future volume production. In June 2018 Honeywell spun off and rebranded its Transportation Systems as Garrett.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Building Automation and Honeywell Safety and Productivity Solutions were created when Automation and Control Solutions was split into two in July 2016.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Form 8-K 2016"/> Building Automation comprises Honeywell Building Solutions, Environmental and Energy Solutions, and Honeywell Security and Fire. In December 2017, Honeywell announced that it had acquired SCAME, an Italy-based company, to add new fire and gas safety capabilities to its portfolio.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Honeywell Safety and Productivity Solutions comprises Scanning & Mobility, Sensing and Internet of Things, and Industrial safety.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Honeywell Performance Materials and Technologies comprises six business units: Honeywell UOP,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Honeywell Process Solutions, Fluorine Products, Electronic Materials, Resins & Chemicals, and Specialty Materials. Products include process technology for oil and gas processing, fuels, films and additives, special chemicals, electronic materials, and renewable transport fuels.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Corporate governance

Honeywell's current chief executive officer is Vimal Kapur.<ref>Ed Crooks and James Politi, Financial Times. "Honeywell chief warns on debt gridlock Template:Webarchive." Jul 12, 2012. Retrieved Jul 19, 2012.</ref><ref>"David M Cote Template:Webarchive." Forbes. Retrieved Jul 19, 2012.</ref> Template:As of, the members of the board are:<ref name="Board">Template:Cite web</ref>

Vimal Kapur Chief executive officer
Vimal Kapur Chairman
Duncan B. Angove Chief Executive Officer of Arcspring LLC<ref name="investor.honeywell.com">Template:Cite web</ref>
William S. Ayer Retired chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Alaska Air Group
Kevin Burke Non-executive chairman of Consolidated Edison, Inc. (Con Edison)
Deborah Flint<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> President and chief executive officer of the Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA)<ref name="investor.honeywell.com"/>
D. Scott Davis Chairman and chief executive officer of United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS)
Rose Lee President and CEO Cornerstone Buildings Brands
Grace D. Lieblein Vice president of global purchasing and supply chain of General Motors Corporation (GM)
Robin L. Washington Executive vice president and chief financial officer of Gilead Sciences, Inc.
Robin Watson CBE Former chief executive officer of Wood Plc

Acquisitions since 2002

Honeywell's acquisitions have consisted largely of businesses aligned with the company's existing technologies. The acquired companies are integrated into one of Honeywell's five business groups (Aerospace Technologies (AT), Building Automation (BA), Safety and Productivity Solutions (SPS), Energy and Sustainability Solutions (ESS), or Performance Materials and Technologies (PMT)) but retain their original brand name.

Year Acquisition Business Group
2023 LenelS2

Supra

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BA
2021 Sparta Systems<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> PMT
2020 Sine Group<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> BA
Ballard Unmanned Systems<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> AT
2019 Tru-Trak Flight Systems<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> AT
Rebellion Photonics SPS
2018 Transnorm<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> SPS
2017 Nextnine<ref name="Solomon2">Template:Cite news</ref> PMT
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Environmental issues

The United States Environmental Protection Agency states that no corporation has been linked to a greater number of Superfund toxic waste sites than Honeywell.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2007, Honeywell ranked 44th in a list of US corporations most responsible for air pollution, releasing more than 4.25 million kg (9.4 million pounds) of toxins per year into the air.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2001, Honeywell agreed to pay $150,000 in civil penalties and to perform $772,000 worth of reparations for environmental violations involving:<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In 2003, a federal judge in Newark, New Jersey, ordered the company to perform an estimated $400 million environmental remediation of chromium waste, citing "a substantial risk of imminent damage to public health and safety and imminent and severe damage to the environment."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 2003, Honeywell paid $3.6 million to avoid a federal trial regarding its responsibility for trichloroethylene contamination in Lisle, Illinois.<ref>"Chemical Company Pays $3.6 Mil. to Settle Suits", Chicago Sun-Times, September 6, 2003 qtd. in knowmore.org Template:Webarchive</ref> In 2004, the State of New York announced that it would require Honeywell to complete an estimated $448 million cleanup of more than 74,000 kg (165,000 lbs) of mercury and other toxic waste dumped into Onondaga Lake in Syracuse, New York, from a former Allied Chemical property.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Honeywell established three water treatment plants by November 2014. The chemicals cleanup site removed 7 tons of mercury.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In November 2015, Audubon New York gave the Thomas W. Keesee Jr. Conservation Award to Honeywell for its cleanup efforts in “one of the most ambitious environmental reclamation projects in the United States.”<ref name="Audubon">Template:Cite news</ref> By December 2017, Honeywell completed dredging the lake.<ref name="Coin">Template:Cite news</ref> Later in December, the Department of Justice filed a settlement requiring Honeywell to pay a separate $9.5 million in damages, as well build 20 restoration projects on the shore to help repair the greater area surrounding the lake.<ref name="Coin"/>

In 2005, the state of New Jersey sued Honeywell, Occidental Petroleum, and PPG to compel cleanup of more than 100 sites contaminated with chromium, a metal linked to lung cancer, ulcers, and dermatitis.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 2008, the state of Arizona made a settlement with Honeywell to pay a $5 million fine and contribute $1 million to a local air-quality cleanup project, after allegations of breaking water-quality and hazardous-waste laws on hundreds of occasions between 1974 and 2004.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In 2006, Honeywell announced that its decision to stop manufacturing mercury switches had resulted in reductions of more than 11,300 kg (24,900 lb) of mercury, 2,800 kg (6,200 lb) of lead, and 1,500 kg (3,300 lb) of chromic acid usage. The largest reduction represents 5% of mercury use in the United States.<ref>Template:Webarchive</ref> The EPA acknowledged Honeywell's leadership in reducing mercury use through a 2006 National Partnership for Environmental Priorities (NPEP) Achievement Award for discontinuing the manufacturing of mercury switches.<ref>[2] Template:Webarchive</ref>

Harvey Cox holding a Honeywell fragmentation bomb, 1973

Criticism

On March 10, 2013, The Wall Street Journal reported that Honeywell was one of sixty companies that shielded annual profits from U.S. taxes.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In December 2011, the non-partisan organization Public Campaign criticized Honeywell International for spending $18.3 million on lobbying and not paying any taxes during 2008–2010, instead getting $34 million in tax rebates, despite making a profit of $4.9 billion, laying off 968 workers since 2008, and increasing executive pay by 15% to $54.2 million in 2010 for its top five executives.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Honeywell has also been criticized in the past for its manufacture of deadly and maiming weapons, such as cluster bombs.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Allegations of involvement in Gaza

In June 2024, investigative reports from various sources alleged that Honeywell's manufactured components were used in a missile that targeted a school in Gaza. Al Jazeera’s investigation traced the part's serial numbers back to Honeywell, raising concerns about U.S. involvement in these military operations. This attack resulted in numerous civilian casualties, sparking international condemnation. Honeywell has not provided a detailed response regarding these claims.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Leadership

Presidents and chairmen of the company have been:<ref>Linda S. Hubbard (ed.), Notable Americans: What They Did, from 1620 to the Present, 4th Edition, (Gale Research Company, 1988), 489.</ref>

President

  1. Mark Charles Honeywell, 1927–1934
  2. Harold Wilson Sweatt, 1934–1952
  3. Paul Barclay Wishart, 1952–1960
  4. James Henry Binger, 1960–1965
  5. Stephen Flaherty Keating, 1965–1974
  6. Edson White Spencer, 1974–1978
  7. Dr. James Joseph Renier, 1986–1988
  8. Dr. David Larry Moore, 1993–1997
  9. Giannantonio Ferrari, 1997–2000
  10. Robert D. Johnson, 1999–2000
  11. Darius Adamczyk, 2016–2018
  12. Vimal Kapur, 2022–2024

Chairman of the Board

  1. Mark Charles Honeywell, 1934–1954
  2. Harold Wilson Sweatt, 1954–1965
  3. James Henry Binger, 1965–1975
  4. Stephen Flaherty Keating, 1975–1978
  5. Edson White Spencer, 1978–1988
  6. James Joseph Renier, 1988–1993
  7. Michael Robert Bonsignore, 1993–2000
  8. Lawrence Arthur Bossidy, 2000–2002
  9. David M. Cote, 2002–2018
  10. Darius Adamczyk, 2018–2024
  11. Vimal Kapur, 2024–present

See also

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