Honeywell has appointed Hitesh Mehta as Country General Manager of Honeywell Advanced Materials India, a strategic business unit of Honeywell’s Performance Materials and Technologies division.

Globally, the business unit manufactures a wide variety of high-performance products, including environmentally preferable refrigerants, fine chemicals, and analytical reagents designed to improve productivity, and materials used to manufacture end products such as bullet-resistant armor, computer chips, and pharmaceutical packaging.

Hitesh brings with him extensive experience in the specialty chemicals and coatings industry. Prior to Honeywell, Hitesh held leadership roles at Atotech India, Akzo Nobel, and 3M India.

He has more than 20 years’ experience in leading businesses in B2B markets and setting up greenfield projects. An enterprising and customer-focused leader, Hitesh has a proven record of shaping growth across businesses based on his deep understanding of current and emerging market trends. Hitesh is currently based in Bengaluru and will be relocating to Pune.