What's in store for Charlotte after United Technologies' $30B merger with Rockwell Collins

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — After clearing its final regulatory hurdle, closing its $30 billion acquisition of Rockwell Collins and announcing it will split itself into three separate companies, industrial behemoth United Technologies Corp. confirms it will keep a key operation in the Queen City.

The newly formed Collins Aerospace Systems unit will base its mechanical systems division in Charlotte, with Sam Mehta at the helm, according to a statement from UTC. Its interiors division, led by Dave Nieuwsma, will be based in Winston-Salem.

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“Collins Aerospace remains committed to its North Carolina employees and helping the areas in which they live and work continue to thrive,” the company said in its statement this week.

Farmington, Connecticut-based UTC combined its UTC Aerospace unit, which has been based here since the company’s 2012 acquisition of Charlotte-based Goodrich Corp., with Rockwell Collins to create Collins Aerospace. A spokesman for UTC previously told CBJ the company will “maintain significant footprints in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Cedar Rapids, Iowa,” where Rockwell Collins had kept its headquarters, and that employee relocations as a result of the merger are “expected to be minimal.”

What's in store for Charlotte after United Technologies' $30B merger with Rockwell Collins

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