Arizona-based Chad Kluemper is an owner-operator with Interstate Batteries. Previously, Chad Kluemper served as a senior program manager with Honeywell Aerospace in Phoenix. The company is a division of Honeywell International, which manufactures a wide array of residential and industrial products worldwide.
The company traces its history to 1885 and inventor Alfred Butz, who perfected a “damper flapper,” a furnace controller that was the predecessor of the modern thermostat. After a third-party purchase, his company became the Minneapolis Heat Regulator Company. In the meantime, Indiana engineer Mark Honeywell invented a heat generator that he marketed under the name Honeywell Heating Specialties. The two companies merged in 1927, using the moniker Minneapolis-Honeywell. Customer preference for the surname was formalized in 1967 as Honeywell.
Honeywell has its footprint in many technologies ranging from gyroscopes and clocks to computers and home security. Staying true to its origins, the company made the iconic T-86 round thermostat, still found in many homes and offices. In the 1960s, Honeywell was a prime contractor for the Apollo program, building guidance hardware that enabled the lunar landings.
Acquired in 1985 by AlliedSignal, Honeywell maintains its presence in control instrumentation. In 2019, it moved from its Morris Plains, New Jersey headquarters to Charlotte, North Carolina.
