Norm Gilsdorf, President of Honeywell Process Solutions, presents an industry perspective to more than 500 Honeywell customers at the Honeywell Users Group Americas symposium.

This year marked the 35th anniversary of Honeywell Users Group (HUG), a five-day event to enable Honeywell Process Solutions’ (HPS) leaders and customers to share best practices and strategies for enhancing business results. 

The theme of this year’s event was “Dynamic Solutions. Endless Possibilities.” Held in Phoenix, Arizona, the event included the opportunity for customers to come together to learn about the latest HPS technologies and provide input on HPS’ research and development priorities.

Key technologies announcements during HUG included:

• OneWireless™ R200, the process industry’s first truly universal wireless mesh network solution, is now fully compliant with the ISA100.11a standard, which will allow plants to design a wireless network with different types of wireless coverage.
• Experion R400, the newest version of Honeywell’s flagship Experion® Process Knowledge System® (PKS), features enhancements to protect manufacturers from the high cost of evolving technology and includes new turbine-control capabilities for power generators.  Experion PKS is Honeywell’s process automation and control system that sends data from critical plant subsystems directly to operators to help improve decision making in the control room.
• Field Advisor™, Honeywell’s newest addition to its family of mobile productivity solutions, helps industrial facilities keep their equipment running within safe operating limits and at optimum performance.

For more information about the event, visit Honeywell Users Group website.

Honeywell’s UOP announced that Jim Rekoske has been named vice president and general manager for its Renewable Energy and Chemicals business.  Rekoske will succeed Jennifer Holmgren who is retiring from UOP after 23 years of service to the company.

Rekoske joined UOP in 1996 and has served in a number of R&D and business positions, including, engineering manager, technical director for UOP’s Catalysts, Adsorbents and Specialties business in the area of petrochemicals, director of technology for Universal Pharma Technologies (a UOP joint venture), and, most recently, senior manager, catalysis research and development.

He is the inventor or co-inventor named on 20 U.S. patents, with another 10 patent applications pending.  He was also recently awarded the 2010 Herman Pines Award from the Chicago Catalysis Club in recognition of his numerous technical breakthroughs in catalysis science.

Rekoske earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in chemical engineering at the University of Wisconsin and a doctorate in chemical engineering from the University of Delaware. He also earned an MBA degree from the University of Chicago. 

For more information, read the press release.

More than 300 of Honeywell’s key customers, partners, leaders, and employees attended Honeywell China’s Technology Day, an opportunity for visitors to learn about the company’s great positions in good industries and differentiated technologies.

Honeywell’s products and solutions related to building and industrial controls, energy efficiency and generation, turbocharging, and aerospace were exhibited and interacted with at the event.

Shane Tedjarati, President and CEO of Honeywell China and India, spoke at Technology Day and emphasized the company’s expanding global presence to bring new product development, manufacturing, and service closer to customers.

“The world is placing great importance on China as the platform for global growth and this offers us good opportunities ahead,” said Tedjarati. “Together with all of you here, we have braved through the difficult times and will definitely do the same to capture the great opportunities that are to come.”

Honeywell’s guests were also invited to the Shanghai World Expo where they were introduced to the Honeywell safety, security, and energy efficiency technologies chosen to protect the properties at the World Expo 2010. A VIP tour was conducted at the USA Pavilion, where Honeywell is a sponsor and is enabling the 6,000 square meter venue to optimize energy efficient technologies for visitors’ comfort and safety.

For more information, watch Shane Tedjarati on CNBC discuss Honeywell’s presence at the World Expo and how China is the fastest growing region for the company.

Honeywell has been selected to supply the process automation and control platform for a new South Korea polysilicon plant to help meet the rising global demand for solar panels. Woongjin Polysilicon will use Honeywell’s Experion® Process Knowledge System (PKS) with Foundation Fieldbus solutions to help the Sangju Plant produce an estimated 5,000 tons of polysilicon per year.

 Polysilicon is a key material used in the manufacturing of photovoltaic panels, which helps convert solar energy into electricity and represents one of the world’s fastest-growing renewable energy technologies.

Experion streamlines plant operations by pulling data directly from critical plant subsystems and sending the information to operators to help them make better decisions in the control room. As part of the agreement, Honeywell will also supply two additional solutions: Safety Manager and the Mobile Station wireless station tablet.

 For more information, read the press release or visit the Process Solutions Website to learn about Experion and other solutions that improve plant safety, reliability, and efficiency.

The world is using more energy than ever. By the year 2030, worldwide energy use could increase as much as 44%. Honeywell offers energy efficiency options that could, if immediately and comprehensively adopted, reduce U.S. energy consumption by 20 to 25%.  

In order to showcase the breadth and depth of these technologies, Honeywell has launched a new website – www.honeywellenergyefficiency.com.  This interactive website is organized to allow users to search for Honeywell products and technologies by sector (residential, industrial, commercial, and transportation), and by energy-related challenge (consumption, conservation, generation, alternatives, protection).

Nearly 50% of Honeywell’s product portfolio delivers energy efficiency benefits.  This new website demonstrates how these technologies are helping make the world safer and more secure, more comfortable and energy efficient, and more innovative and productive.

Explore how Honeywell technologies and solutions are making an impact all around you.

This Earth Day – and every day – Honeywell is committed to addressing some of the world’s toughest challenges linked to energy efficiency, production, and management.

In fact, roughly 50 percent of Honeywell’s portfolio delivers energy efficiency benefits, including: 

• Avionics that allow planes to use more efficient flight profiles that burn 10% less fuel, while safely doubling the capacity of the skies.
• Building controls and programmable thermostats that help reduce energy usage by 20-30% without sacrificing comfort.
• Demand response technology that enables utilities to remotely lower home thermostats to reduce energy demand during peak periods, a key component of the Smart Grid.
• High-quality, drop-in replacement Honeywell Green Diesel™, which can be used within today’s fuel infrastructure and offers up to 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.
• Turbochargers that allow engines one-third smaller to produce the same power as full-size engines, but with 25% less fuel and emissions.

And, that is only a small sample. In fact, if the U.S. and Europe just aggressively adopted existing Honeywell technologies – nothing that would have to be invented, just products and services already in existence – they could save 20-25% of current energy consumption.

Being a responsible steward of the environment is important to Honeywell’s global growth.  We’re committed to reducing our greenhouse gas emissions by 30%, increasing energy efficiency by 20%, and reducing hazardous waste generated per dollar of revenue by 15% by 2012. And, we are on target to meet these goals. 

For more information about the importance of sustainability and energy efficiency at Honeywell, visit the company’s Sustainability or Energy Efficiency websites, or watch Honeywell Chairman and CEO Dave Cote’s message to the Business Roundtable about the company’s commitment to a sustainable future.

Honeywell launched “Add Honeywell,” a new website that demonstrates how the company’s technologies and innovations are making the world safer and more secure, more comfortable and energy efficient, and more innovative and productive.

Through the use of 3-D animation, dynamic videos and photos, and easy navigation, the site demonstrates Honeywell’s technologies in aerospace, homes, refineries, commercial buildings, automobiles, and a broad range of other sector-specific applications.  “Add Honeywell” features hundreds of facts and statistics about the company’s differentiated technologies.

For more facts and information on Honeywell, visit www.AddHoneywell.com.

Norm Gilsdorf, president of Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS), has been named a Distinguished Engineering Alumni (DEA) Award winner from his alma mater, Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Gilsdorf was selected for his outstanding technical and business achievements and his dedication to Purdue University.

After graduating from Purdue in 1977 with a degree in chemical engineering, Gilsdorf joined UOP, a joint venture fully acquired by Honeywell in 2005, where he spent 30 years in various leadership positions, including senior vice president and general manager of the Process Technology and Equipment business. Gilsdorf joined HPS in 2008 as vice president and general manager of the Europe, Middle East and Africa region, and became president of the business in 2009.

The Purdue College of Engineering has more than 81,000 living alumni. Since 1964, the distinction of DEA has been bestowed upon only 423 of these outstanding individuals who have become leaders in business, public service, and academia.

For more information, read the press release.

Envergent Technologies LLC, a Honeywell company, announced today that Italian power company Industria e Innovazione has selected the Envergent RTP (rapid thermal processing) technology for the development of a facility to convert biomass into pyrolysis oil for renewable power generation.

Industria e Innovazione and Envergent have signed an agreement to pursue development of an RTP facility to convert a mix of pine forest residues and clean demolition wood into pyrolysis oil, a liquid biofuel. The facility will be designed to process around 150 bone-dry metric tons per day of biomass to pyrolysis oil for the generation of renewable electricity.

Envergent will provide engineering for the facility which is projected for start-up in 2012. Envergent Technologies is a joint venture of UOP and Ensyn Corp.

For more information, read the press release.

Honeywell’s UOP announced that Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical Co., Ltd. has successfully started up a new para-xylene complex using UOP process technology at the Sinopec facility in Shanghai. 

The aromatics project was completed in just 30 months from initial kick-off through commissioning, with UOP providing the technology license, basic engineering, equipment packages, and key products.

The new aromatics complex produces 600,000 metric tons per annum of para-xylene using the UOP Parex™ process. Para-xylene is a key ingredient in the production of PTA (purified terephthalic acid), which is used to make polyester for fabric and PET (polyethylene terephthalate) chips for carbonated soft drink and water bottles. The new plant will also produce 280,000 metric tons per annum of benzene, another important building block in plastics production.

With more than 140 million tons of refining capacity, Sinopec is the largest producer and marketer of refined oil products in China and in Asia. It is also the largest distributor of petrochemicals in China and is the country’s second largest producer of oil and gas.

For more information, read the press release.