Plastics firm to move into former Honeywell plant
Lawrence’s former Honeywell International plant will become home to a new manufacturer of high-tech plastics that will add 40 jobs to the city in the next three years.
Officials with Lawrence-based HiPer Technology confirmed Monday that they had purchased the 78,000 square-foot Honeywell building at 2920 Haskell Avenue.
HiPer will move its lone manufacturing facility in Armada, Mich., to Lawrence by this summer, Doug Baker, the company’s CEO said. HiPer manufactures a line of carbon-fiber racing wheels for All Terrain Vehicles, but has plans to introduce four new product lines using the high-tech plastics in the next three months.
Honeywell announced in July that it was closing its Lawrence plant and moving the 189 jobs at the facility to its Olathe plant.
For more on this story, see the 6News reports at 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. and pick up a copy of Tuesday’s Journal-World.
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