Honeywell shifts operations in Seelze to produce and donate hand sanitizer to local government

SEELZE, Germany, April 29, 2020 -- Honeywell today announced that its Seelze, Germany, specialty chemicals plant has shifted operations to produce hand sanitizer to fulfill the urgent need created by the COVID-19 pandemic in Lower Saxony, Germany.

To date, the plant has produced and donated 10,000 liters of industrial hand sanitizer to the local government. Now, the plant will ramp up production to enable Honeywell to donate about 60,000 liters in total over the next two months.

The Saxony Ministry of Health, Social Affairs and Equality intends to distribute the product to local hospitals and factories.

Honeywell is also planning to produce hand sanitizer at its Muskegon, Mich., plant to meet the ever-increasing need for hand sanitizer in the U.S., and will donate 40,000 liters to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

“COVID-19 has created hardship for people around the world, including near our plant in Seelze. It took our employees less than two weeks to shift our production capacities to produce hand sanitizer,” said Michael Polzer, site leader of Honeywell’s Seelze plant. “We are honored to play a part in the broader effort to curb the number of COVID-19 cases in our region, and we will continue to support Lower Saxony in this fight to save lives.”

Honeywell’s Seelze plant produces more than 500 products, including high-purity solutions for laboratory research and testing applications, inorganic fine chemicals for agriculture and automotive industries, electronic chemicals used in semiconductors, and microchips and authentication technologies used in high security and brand protection applications. This also includes personal protection equipment authentication. The plant opened more than 100 years ago.

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