EPA names Honeywell Green Lights Ally of the Year; Award recognizes company's initiatives in energy-efficient lighting.

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 1995--The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today named Honeywell Inc. the "Green Lights Manufacturer Ally of the Year" at an EPA-sponsored conference here on voluntary pollution prevention programs. The award recognizes the manufacturing organization that has made the most outstanding contribution to improving and promoting energy-efficient lighting -- both in its own and other's facilities. The EPA also bestowed awards on four Honeywell lighting control customers during a formal ceremony.

The EPA's Green Lights program is a non-regulatory program designed to reduce pollution, promote public/private partnership, encourage environmental leadership and cut participants' energy costs by using energy-efficient lighting. The EPA estimates that lighting retrofit programs, if implemented where cost-justified by organizations nationwide, could save the economy nearly $19 billion in electricity annually and reduce air pollution by 5 percent.

"The voluntary efforts of organizations like Honeywell are proving that business and the environment don't have to be miles apart," said Maria Tikoff, EPA's director of Green Lights and Energy Star programs. "By using and promoting energy-efficient lighting, Honeywell is helping save itself and its customers money and electricity, which in turn reduces air pollution associated with global warming, acid rain and smog."

"Our Green Lights program touches every division and every employee at Honeywell nationwide," said Michael R. Bonsignore, Honeywell chairman and chief executive officer. "The program makes economic sense for us and for our customers. It makes environmental sense for everybody. It's simply the right thing to do."

The initiatives for which Honeywell was recognized fall into two categories. First, Honeywell is upgrading the lighting in all 32 of its owned facilities and two major leased facilities in the United States. Primarily through these upgrades, Honeywell has reduced its nationwide electricity consumption by 16.6 million kilowatt hours (kWh) since beginning its internal Green Lights program in 1991. That energy savings equates to the environmental impact of:

o Planting more than 4,800 acres of tress;

o Removing more than 2,300 cars from the road;

o Not burning more than 1.5 million gallons of gasoline

Second, the EPA recognized Honeywell for its role as a leading consultant and provider of products and services to organizations interested in taking advantage of energy-efficient lighting to reduce energy consumption in their own facilities. Honeywell has helped dozens of organizations become Green Lights Partners, a designation that requires organizations to commit to completing upgrades to energy-efficient lighting in 90 percent of their facilities over a five-year period. Honeywell achieved "partner" designation itself in 1991.

In addition to naming Honeywell a Green Lights Ally of the Year, the EPA also named nine organizations Green Lights Partners of the Year. The partner-of-the-year designation recognizes those organizations deemed to have made the most substantial progress in their efforts to apply energy-efficient lighting within their respective facilities. Of the nine award winners, four are current Honeywell customers. They include:

o Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Honeywell works with Johnson & Johnson, the world's largest manufacturer of health care products for the consumer, pharmaceutical and professional markets, in multiples facilities nationwide to implement energy-efficient lighting solutions in a variety of office and industrial settings.

o Arlington Public School System, Arlington, Virginia. An on-site Honeywell representative is part of a systemwide Energy Team that continually applies energy-efficient lighting technologies to opportunities that arise during capital improvement projects and Institutional Conservation Program grant cycles in this Virginia school system.

o University of Michigan Hospitals, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Honeywell and the University of Michigan Hospitals are long-term partners in energy management at this 19-building complex.

o Lima Memorial Hospital, Lima, Ohio. Honeywell lighting retrofit projects help this community hospital reduce its utility bills, freeing funds for investment in patient care and helping keep the hospital competitive in the face of health care cost containment pressures.

"Honeywell knows first hand about the benefits of participation in the Green Lights program," said Brian M. McGourty, president, Honeywell Home and Building Control. "We're committed to helping our customers achieve these benefits, as well. The opportunity to reduce operating costs and free funds for reinvestment in research, training and development, and products and services is one no competitive organization can forego."

Honeywell is a global controls company providing products, systems and services that increase comfort, environmental protection, energy conservation, productivity and safety in homes and buildings, industry, and aviation and space. The company employs 50,000 people in 95 countries on six continents, and had 1994 sales of $6.1 billion.

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