Honeywell and DuPont announced a manufacturing joint venture to produce a new refrigerant for use in automotive air conditioning systems. The new refrigerant has 99.7 percent lower global warming potential (GWP) than the current refrigerant.

Under the agreement, DuPont and Honeywell will share financial and technological resources with the intent to jointly design, construct and operate a world-scale manufacturing facility for the new refrigerant, known as HFO-1234yf. The product meets European Union regulatory requirements for lower GWP refrigerants for automobile air conditioning systems. DuPont and Honeywell developed the product jointly but will market and sell it separately.

Today’s automotive air conditioners use hydrofluorocarbon HFC-134a, which has a GWP of 1430. The European Union’s Mobile Air Conditioning Directive requires that, starting in 2011, all new vehicle models use a refrigerant with a GWP below 150, and by 2017, all new automobiles sold in Europe will be required to use a low-GWP refrigerant. The new refrigerant, developed by DuPont and Honeywell, has a GWP of 4, which is 97 percent less GWP than the new regulation requires.

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.

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.

Honeywell Chairman and CEO Dave Cote appeared on CNBC’s “Mad Money” where he talked about energy efficiency and the U.S. economy with TV show host and respected money manager, Jim Cramer.

Cramer believes the U.S., led by large corporations that provide energy-related products and supply jobs, will emerge from this economic crisis stronger than before.

“Honeywell is more profitable than anyone could have imagined it would be at this point in the business cycle and this isn’t just any old industrial company,” said Cramer. “Honeywell’s products uniquely involve the controlling and saving of energy. That’s the story here.”

Nearly 50 percent of Honeywell’s product portfolio company-wide is linked to energy efficiency and renewable energy. Simply by using the Honeywell technologies available in the marketplace today, the U.S. alone could reduce energy consumption by 15 to 20 percent and play a key role in curbing and reducing global greenhouse gas emissions.

“We need to be driving energy efficiency in the [U.S.] for two big reasons,” said Cote. “The first one is economic security. You get economic security by making sure that you’re as self-sufficient as possible in energy. The second one is you need low-cost power for an economy to compete, and energy efficiency is the lowest cost power you can get.”

For more information, watch the full interview.

The energy-efficient, non-flammable, low-toxicity refrigerant is used as the heat-transfer fluid in an organic rankine cycle (ORC) called the ElectraTherm Green Machine. The ORC uses waste heat as low as 200 degrees Fahrenheit to boil the R-245fa. The resulting vapor is used to drive a patented Twin Screw Expander that generates usable electricity.

Electricity generated by the ElectraTherm Green Machine costs less than a penny per kilowatt hour after its capital payback period of less than two years. By comparison, according to the U.S. Department of Energy, average commercial electricity costs surpassed 10 cents per kilowatt hour in 2008.

The machine, which can generate more than 50 kilowatts of electricity, was named one of the top technology innovations in 2008 by Popular Science magazine, which honored it with a Best of What’s New Award.

ElectraTherm’s energy-efficient line of generators make fuel-free, emissions-free electricity from waste and geothermal heat or pressure instead of fossil fuels, thus offsetting carbon emissions.

For more information, read the release.

Honeywell has secured global rights from DuPont allowing Honeywell to sell R-422D, a replacement for R-22 in refrigeration and air-conditioning systems.  R-422D is a non-ozone-depleting hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) refrigerant that is an efficient and cost-effective retrofit solution for replacing ozone-depleting R-22 in existing systems. Honeywell will sell R-422D under the Genetron® refrigerants brand name.

“This global agreement allows Honeywell to provide additional solutions for its customers all over the world who must meet regulatory requirements to phase-out ozone-deplete substances,” said David Diggs, global business director for the refrigerants business of Honeywell Fluorine Products.

Under the Montreal Protocol, all signatory nations have agreed to phase-out the use of ozone-depleting substances, including chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs). The European Union has aggressively implemented this change. In 2003, it banned new systems from using R-22, a HCFC refrigerant. Additionally, in 2010 the production of R-22 for refrigeration and air-conditioning applications for service of existing equipment will also be prohibited. Owners of R-22 based equipment will either need to service the equipment with recycled/reclaimed R-22, use a retro-fit fluid such as R-422D or replace the equipment. Other countries are also implementing the phase-out of R-22.