Katherine L. Adams has been appointed Honeywell’s Senior Vice President and General Counsel, effective immediately. She will report to Honeywell Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Dave Cote.

“Kate is a terrific selection for General Counsel,” said Cote. “Her outstanding work since joining Honeywell has added rigor and focus to Honeywell’s core legal processes, especially in protecting the business’ intellectual property, supporting successful mergers and acquisitions, managing human resources and labor issues, as well as resolving the company’s legacy environmental and remediation matters. These experiences, on top of her background in private practice and public service, position her well to take our legal department to the next level.”

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Chairman and CEO Dave Cote appeared on CNBC’s “Mad Money” where he talked about Honeywell’s great positions in good industries and showcased Honeywell technologies in a lively hands-on demonstration with TV show host and respected money manager, Jim Cramer.

Cramer, who was backdropped by one of Honeywell’s huge HTF7000 jet engines, said, “Honeywell is … a business, and more important, a management team, that I think can weather the downturn much better than others. Plus, 50 percent of Honeywell’s portfolio of products relate to energy efficiency. So it’s a company that is in keeping with the priorities of the Obama administration.”

Key Honeywell technologies from all four of its businesses were featured on the show. Cramer asked, “For instance, what the heck am I wearing?”

Cote replied, “That’s a bullet proof vest, the type that are used in Iraq and Afghanistan today and they’re absolutely superb. Just to give you an example,” Cote said while picking up an armor plate made with Specialty Materials’ Spectra^® Fiber, “this is where an AK-47 round entered and this is where it didn’t come out. That saved a soldier’s life.” Other technologies featured included turbochargers, the T-Hawk™ Micro Air Vehicle, Total Fire Group^® safety gear, and Prestige™ and UtilityPRO™ thermostats.

“One of the things we’ve wanted to do is focus a lot on the customer, understand our customer, focus on technology where we can make a difference, and invent markets, don’t just take market share, invent markets,” said Cote. Later in the interview Cote said, “If we’re not in a particular place already, and it’s too difficult to invent, we’ve learned that acquisition is a great way for us to go in. You look at gas detection, things like barcode scanning, personal protection equipment – all done through acquisitions.”

Chairman and CEO Dave Cote introduced President Barack Obama at a media briefing after a meeting with the President and 12 other CEOs at the White House in support of the proposed U.S. Reinvestment and Recovery Plan.

“Now is not the time for our country to be timid,” Cote said. “We need to get this thing done. The business community has great confidence in our President to provide the direction and the leadership that is needed in these tough times to make it happen. But he can’t do it alone…all of us have to help. As for Honeywell, you can count on us and all of our employees to be there to help support this.”

President Obama said, “These are people who make things, who hire people. They are on the front lines in seeing the enormous problems in our economy right now. Their ideas and their concerns have helped to shape our recovery package, and I’m grateful that they’re here today to talk about why it’s so important that we act, and act swiftly, in order to get this economy back on track.”

“We are very supportive of the Reinvestment and Recovery Plan,” said Cote. “Our message would be it needs to get done fast.  Getting money out fast to people who will spend it…and investment in the future of the country, whether its infrastructure, energy efficiency, math and science…all these things need to happen,” said Cote. “There are great strides that we can make in this country in energy efficiency, there are a number of solutions out there that are possible and we just need to encourage people to do it. It improves our energy security and just makes sense.”

Cote also stated that the U.S. is in desperate need of engineers, and stressed the importance of investing in math and science education.

Nearly half of Honeywell’s product portfolio is linked to energy efficiency. Simply by using the Honeywell technologies available in the marketplace today, the U.S. could reduce energy demand by 15 to 20 percent.