Jacobs Receives Contract from Honeywell for Baton Rouge Manufacturing Plant

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.

announced today it has been awarded a contract from Honeywell to provide engineering services for the expansion of its Baton Rouge, La. manufacturing facility. Jacobs is executing the work from its offices in Mt. Laurel, N.J. The expansion enables the Baton Rouge facility, one of the leading refrigerants suppliers in the U.S., to produce Honeywell's new low-global-warming-potential (GWP) blowing agent and propellant (technical name: HFO-1234ze) on a commercial scale. Production of HFO-1234ze is scheduled to begin in late 2013. In making the announcement, Jacobs Group Vice President Bob Pragada stated, "We are pleased Honeywell selected Jacobs to be part of this cutting edge project, especially since the investment will use next-generation technology to improve the energy efficiency for a multitude of applications."