Joining CIIE again shows Honeywell’s commitment to China: Honeywell president
By Wu
Lejun, People's Daily app
File photo of Shane Tedjarati, president of Honeywell global
high growth regions.
People’s Daily (Washington) -- Talking about the upcoming second China International Import
Expo, Shane Tedjarati, president of Honeywell’s global high growth regions,
said Honeywell is among the first batch of multinationals to commit to join the
CIIE. This is the second time for Honeywell to join, which shows Honeywell’s
commitment to China. The size of Honeywell’s exhibition areas has tripled
compared with last year.
According to the the Ministry of Commerce, the number of US
companies participating in the second session of the Expo reached 192, an
increase of 18% over last year. The exhibition area for US companies reached
47,500 square meters, ranking first among the participating countries.
With the theme on “The Future is What Make It,” Honeywell
will exhibit over 30 leading technologies including “connected aircraft,
connected buildings, connected manufacturing, and connected distribution
centers.” Some of the exhibits are showing products for the first time in
China, including the new JetWave xxxxx, tailor made for the China market.
Products such as total solutions for connected warehouses and smart terminals
display Honeywell’s innovation capabilities, which can solve China’s key challenges
in terms of smart manufacturing, energy efficiency and safety.
Honeywell brought a series of leading connected technologies
to the first CIIE, in order to embrace the booming digital economy together
with Chinese customers. Honeywell signed dozens of deals at the first CIIE, and
hopes to get more at the second CIIE. These sales demonstrate a win-win with
Chinese customers for a better future.
For example, Honeywell signed a cooperation agreement with
Sinochem to support the digital transformation of fine chemical manufacturing
in China at the first CIIE, Tedjarati said. With Honeywell's Manufacturing
Execution Systems, a plant of Sinochem’s Sennics at Tongling not only achieves
efficient manufacturing operation management and intelligent manufacturing,
but more importantly, enhances the comprehensive operational excellence and
profitability, which contributes to its digital transformation. After the
manufacturing execution system was put into operation, Sennics’ Tongling plant
realized that both the automation of material entry and exit operations and the
quality inspection efficiency increased by 30%, inventory efficiency increased
by 78%, and labor costs decreased by over 60%.
As a long-established American manufacturing company,
Honeywell became the first multinational company to set up a representative
office in Beijing, in the 1980s. Tedjarati has worked and lived in China for
more than 20 years. From being unable to say a Chinese sentence, to becoming an
experienced China hand, Shane Tedjarati witnessed China's rapid
development.
“I first came to China in 1992 and experienced the rapid
changes in China. I am very lucky to have witnessed and been involved in these
changes for the past 27 years.” Tedjarati told the People’s Daily. He said he
still remembered that the first word he learned in China was “no” when he
arrived on a night flight in Hangzhou in 1992. “At that time, no matter where
you went or what you wanted to buy, people always said ‘no’, especially to
foreigners. But in a little over a decade ‘no’ has become ‘no problem’,
no matter what you want now. This amazing transformation cannot have happened
without China’s opening-up to the world and inviting multinational companies to
come and participate in the economic development of the country,” he added.
With a deep commitment to China, Tedjarati put forward
Honeywell's core strategy, "East serves East" and "East serves
the world. " No matter where in the world, Honeywell sees China as a major
center of innovation and promotes innovation to drive growth, he stressed.
Honeywell’s growth has fully aligned with China’s macro
trends, like the digital economy and the Belt and Road initiative. Honeywell
has supported many mega projects in China, including China’s first home-grown
passenger jet, the C919, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge, the West to East
Gas Pipeline Project, ZPC’s integrated refining and petrochemical complex in
Zhoushan, Jinmao Tower in Shanghai, and the Bird’s Nest in Beijing. Honeywell’s
revenue in China has increased six-fold from 2004 to 2018, and China has become
Honeywell’s largest single market outside the US.
"In the future, we will continue to develop the mid-end
market based on the development strategy of 'East Serves East', especially the
mass market in the middle, and better serve Chinese customers," said
Tedjarati.
Joining CIIE again shows Honeywell’s commitment to China: Honeywell president
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