Johnson Controls said this morning that it would try to continue production at the plants and was ready to bring in replacement workers to do so.
The system is made by Johnson Controls and has been installed on over 20,000,000 automobiles as of 2003.
Johnson Controls continued to develop new control technologies to help customers better manage their increasingly larger and more complex buildings.
Johnson Controls' policy excludes only women from production jobs.
Johnson Controls believes that at higher production levels, the price will rival containers from new materials.
Johnson Controls has attempted to exclude women because of their reproductive capacity.
Johnson Controls has spent $15 million since 1978 on new equipment to remove lead from factory air.
The suit against Johnson Controls was filed by several women there, some of them middle-aged.
Johnson Controls said it expected to complete the dealin the fall.
From the start, Johnson Controls' project was cloaked in secrecy.