Tag: Honeywell Life Safety

NORTHFORD, Conn.—It has been more than a decade since two planes crashed into the World Trade Center, changing the lives of Americans forever, and resulting in the deaths of 2,750 people.Could it happen again? Thanks to the evolution of situational awareness technology and mass notification systems, the mass casualties could be mitigated, Tom Von Essen said at a press conference at Honeywell Life Safety, based here.Von Essen was the commissioner of the New York Fire Department during 9/11 and...

NORTHFORD, Conn.—Honeywell's Golden Valley, Minn. business announced recently that it will buy a global gas-detection firm based in California, according to a company statement. The company plans to purchase San Jose, Calif.-based RAE Systems for about $340 million, though the acquisition is still subject to regulatory approval, according to the report. Once the acquisition is complete, RAE will be incorporated into the gas-detection portfolio of Honeywell Life Safety, based here. RAE generates...

NORTHFORD, Conn.—Honeywell announced this week that it has created a new umbrella organization, Honeywell Life Safety (HLS) Fire Solutions, Americas, under which Honeywell Fire Systems and System Sensor will work more closely together.The company announced that Gary Lederer will be business leader of HLS Fire Solutions, Americas. Lederer, who has been with Honeywell for about 13 years, will oversee Honeywell Fire Systems and System Sensor, both part of the Honeywell Automation and Control Solutions'...

LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill.—Honeywell has acquired Fire Sentry, a manufacturer of fire detection and control products for a broad range of industrial markets.The acquisition adds flame detection to Honeywell's gas detection business, Honeywell Analytics, a global company with its U.S. headquarters here, and furthers that business's extremely rapid growth, according to Patrick Hogan, VP of marketing for Honeywell Analytics Americas.Honeywell Analytics works closely with its sister fire systems companies...

WORCESTER, Mass.—Honeywell Life Safety is a major sponsor of a planned new state-of-the-art fire protection engineering facility at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and a laboratory in the facility will bear the Honeywell name. “Worcester Polytechnic Institute has been a great contributor to the fire-protection industry and Honeywell certainly wants to help further this mission,” said Mark Levy, president of Honeywell Life Safety, based in Northford, Conn. and a division of Honeywell...