Industrial notes

Honeywell Plant in Amiens, France. In a further foreign operations expansion, Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Company has started construction of a small plant at Amiens, France, to produce oil burner controls for that country´s growing oil heating market. This will be the fifth Honeywell plant outside the United States. It also will be an industrial milestone for Amiens because the plant will represent the first foreign industry to establish manufacturing operations in that city. Commemorating this fact, the Amiens Chamber of Commerce presented a special medal to H. W. Sweatt, Honeywell´s board chairman. The Amiens plant will produce primarily for the French market, but some of its output will probably also be exported to other European countries. The domestic oil heating market began developing after World War II when oil became available for home heating from the new French refineries.