West Warwick tech firm wins multi-year deal with Honeywell

West Warwick-based Astro-Med, Inc. has inked a deal with Honeywell Aerospace, a division of Honeywell International, to furnish the new Boeing 787 aircraft with cockpit printers, according to a company statement released Monday.

Astro-Med signed a 10-year contract – with a renewal clause for an additional 10 years – to provide Honeywell with its ToughWriter 4 printer for as many as 2,600 aircrafts, the company said.

Everett V. Pizzuti, president and chief operating officer of Astro-Med, declined to disclose the exact sum of the multi-million-dollar deal, but said each airborne printer sells for about $16,000.

"This is the third major contract that Astro-Med has received for airborne printers for commercial aircraft,” said Pizzuti, in a company statement.

The company won a contract in January 2004 with Sagem S.A., and a second this April with Panasonic Avionics Corp., to produce ToughWriter 4 units for the Airbus A380.

Astro-Med manufactures high-tech specialty printing systems, medical instrumentation, and test and measurement products used worldwide for aerospace, industrial, scientific, and medical applications, according to the company.