Honeywell Shuts Two Mask Factories as Face-Covering Demand Drops
- Plant closures in Rhode Island, Arizona impact 1,170 workers
- Company to continue production at automated Chandler plant
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Honeywell International Inc. is shutting two N95 mask facilities that were hastily stood up for production last year to meet a surge in demand spurred by Covid-19.
The shutdowns will affect about 470 workers in Smithfield, Rhode Island, and another 700 in Phoenix and come after many states ended mask mandates and vaccines have given more people confidence to forgo face coverings, Eric Krantz, a Honeywell spokesmen, said in an email statement.