Honeywell Aerospace plans to invest $500 million in a 300,000-square-foot manufacturing facility at its existing Tempe, Arizona, campus, adding in-house complex machining and production capacity for commercial aviation and defence programmes. The facility is scheduled to open in late 2028. Honeywell expects it to create about 600 jobs over time, while construction is expected to support more than 1,000 local jobs.
The project will support current programmes, the company’s $15 billion in Control Systems programme wins, and next-generation Assure advanced actuation systems and Attune vapour-cycle cooling subsystems. It is also intended to increase capacity for defence technologies covered by a supplier framework agreement Honeywell signed with the US Department of War in March.
Bringing complex machining in-house would increase vertical integration in an area Honeywell describes as constrained across the supply base. The planned production system will combine modular robotics, automated inspection and digital twins, connected through an end-to-end digital thread.
Honeywell has not specified production volumes, individual customers or the precise products to be made at the facility. The company’s announcement describes a planned expansion; the site is not yet operating.