B/E Aerospace: Biggest aerospace deal in history includes KC plant in $23B acquisition

Employees at a local manufacturing facility will have to learn the name of another new owner. After nearly two decades as the local unit of B/E Aerospace Inc., a 130,000-square-foot manufacturing facility at 10800 Pflumm Road in Lenexa sold in October to Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based Rockwell Collins Inc. (NYSE: COL) in October. Less than a year later, the plant is about to have another new owner. According to The Wall Street Journal, United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) has reached a deal to buy the...