6 April 2020:: In the fight against COVID-19, Honeywell has added a face mask production operation at its Phoenix Engines campus in Arizona. This facility is one of the largest facilities of Honeywell dedicated to the design and manufacturing of aircraft propulsion engines and auxiliary power units since 1950. It will continue to manufacture this equipment, as well as produce PPE.
"We have moved quickly to expand our production capacity for N95 masks globally and are pleased to announce our second new US manufacturing line to supply the Strategic National Stockpile," said Darius Adamczyk, Honeywell Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.
He further added "We at Honeywell are an industrial technology company and one of the industries we're in is protecting the industrial worker. We're repurposing the equipment to serve the health care worker."
This facility along with the new Rhode Island facility will enable Honeywell to produce another 20 million N95 disposable masks. Currently the operations in both these facilities is running 24/7 and the masks are being sent to the US department of Health and Human Services.