It would be hard to name a company that touches lives in more ways than Honeywell Advanced Materials.
Ready-now innovations from Honeywell Advanced Materials keep people comfortable in buildings and cars and food cool in supermarkets. Its products make it easier and safer to take life-prolonging medicines. Smartphones and other electronics would not work without its electronic materials. Its fibers protect service members and law enforcement officers. And Honeywell Advanced Materials is on the front lines in facing one of humankind’s most consequential challenges: saving the planet from the very real threat of climate change.
New Jersey is the hub of this global business that is improving quality of life every day and in every corner of the world.
For more than a century, talented teams of Honeywell employees have been tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges, from its headquarters in Morris Plains, New Jersey, and at Advanced Materials labs, offices and production facilities worldwide.
Honeywell Advanced Materials businesses develop and manufacture a wide variety of high-performance products, including environmentally friendly, low-global-warming-potential (GWP) refrigerants, and material used to manufacture end products such as bullet-resistant armor, semiconductors and pharmaceutical packaging.
More than 3,000 talented, diverse and highly engaged employees— including approximately 1,200 here in New Jersey—come to work every day determined to make breakthroughs that will improve the human condition and protect the environment. More than 400 Honeywell Advanced Materials employees are engineers and technologists who have been awarded 462 United States patents, 250 of which are active and in force.
From Pharmaceutical Packaging to Ultra-Strong Fibers to Specialty Additives
Honeywell Advanced Materials is also a leading producer of fibers, films and polyolefin polymers and copolymers for products ranging from pharmaceutical packaging to medical devices, body armor, protective clothing and fishing line.
Packaging innovations from Honeywell Advanced Materials help pharmaceutical companies deliver drugs and other products that prevent and cure diseases, treat chronic conditions and improve the quality of life for people all over the world. Aclar® ultra-high barrier films are used to produce blister packaging, which provides the effective moisture barrier protection needed for drug stability and efficacy. Over the last five decades, Aclar film has become the first choice of over-the-counter, originator, generic and animal-health drug manufacturers. I
In 2020, Honeywell Advanced Materials introduced Aclar Edge, a pharmaceutical packaging system for oral liquids for humans and sterile injectables for animals. An alternative to conventional glass bottles and vials, Aclar Edge offers a 75% weight reduction versus glass. Aclar Edge also offers significant operational advantages by eliminating glass cracking and breakage, minimizing drug particulate contamination and reducing transportation costs.
Probably best known for protecting soldiers and law enforcement officers in the field, Spectra fiber is renowned for its lightweight strength and versatility. Pound-for-pound, Spectra fiber is 15 times stronger than steel and more durable than polyester, making it extremely appealing for use in a wide range of medical, industrial and recreational applications.
For example, in the medical field, Spectra Medical Grade (MG) bio fiber is an ideal material for sutures, surgical robots, catheters, joint reconstruction and medical devices. In addition to its strength, Spectra MG bio fiber is biocompatible and reduces body inflammation and irritation to promote healing. In 2022, Honeywell introduced blue colored fiber technology that improves accuracy and safety during medical operations.
Spectra fiber is also used to produce cut-resistant gloves and clothing to give workers an extra layer of protection in factories or commercial kitchens. When lightweight strength is critical, Spectra fiber can be found in industrial and recreational applications including rope and lifting slings, mooring lines, fishing line, sail cloth and security netting. Honeywell’s NduroMatt™ matting agent is a breakthrough innovation for paint formulation, which provides significantly better protection against burnishes, scratches and stains. Other Honeywell additives improve the performance and durability of materials used in the roofing and paving industries, while Honeywell Advanced Materials waxes and wax blends are used to improve plastic and rubber products.
Fine Chemicals, Electronic Materials and More
When quality and purity levels cannot be compromised, customers worldwide turn to Honeywell Advanced Materials for support. Products include organic and inorganic compounds along with fine chemicals. Innovation abounds in the semiconductor industry and Honeywell Advanced Materials is a critical provider of electronic materials that are an integral part of the semiconductor-manufacturing process. The Honeywell Electronics and Chemicals group supplies materials to leading foreign and domestic chip manufacturers, and the materials end up in all types of industrial and consumer electronic equipment, including smartphones, tablets and laptops.
Products made by Honeywell Electronics and Chemicals include coil sets, electronic chemicals, electronic and thermal interconnect materials and more. Honeywell is the world’s leading provider of sputtering targets, a technology used to apply thin films on computer chips, and continues investing to expand capacity to produce these advanced materials to support semiconductor manufacturers in the United States and internationally.
For more than 100 years, Honeywell Advanced Materials has been delivering cutting-edge technologies that make the world a better place. As a whole, Honeywell is committed to achieving carbon neutrality in its operations and facilities by 2035 and recently announced a new set of commitments that further advance its sustainability goals, including a science-based target with the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) that includes scope 3 emissions and participation in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Better Climate Challenge. The company also supports the Paris Climate Agreement.
These efforts build on the company’s track record of sharply reducing the greenhouse gas intensity of its operations and facilities as well as its decades-long history of innovation to help its customers meet their environmental and social goals. About 60% of Honeywell’s new product introduction research and development investment is directed toward products that improve environmental and social outcomes for customers. Honeywell Advanced Materials is contributing greatly to this effort.
