Honeywell to close Cranston facility

HONEYWELL said it plans to close its Plainfield Pike facility in Cranston.
HONEYWELL said it plans to close its Plainfield Pike facility in Cranston.

CRANSTON – Honeywell Safety Products plans to close its Plainfield Pike facility, a company spokeswoman said Friday.
“After thorough consideration, we have decided to close our facility in Cranston and transition operations to other existing Honeywell facilities. While this will impact manufacturing and distribution roles, nonproduction employees will be relocated to our Smithfield facilities,” Lourdes Peña, Honeywell’s communications manager, said in a statement.
She said this action will affect most of the production employees, but those who remain will shift to Smithfield.
She said the company has “hundreds of Rhode Island-based employees supporting many different Honeywell businesses and we continue to be committed to the communities where we live and work.”
The closing, she said, “will help ensure a competitive business model aimed at long-term growth and profitability and is linked to the needs of our customers.”
The Morristown, N.J.-based company does not disclose the number of employees by site, Peña said. The closing process will not take place until later this year. The facility will finally shut in 2016, she said.
Honeywell has 1,300 sites in 68 countries and approximately 131,000 employees.

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