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'''Kennametal''' (NYSE: KMT) delivers productivity to customers seeking peak performance in demanding environments by providing innovative custom and standard wear-resistant solutions. This proven productivity is enabled through the company's advanced materials sciences and application knowledge. The company's commitment to a sustainable environment provides additional value to its customers. Companies operating in everything from airframes to coal mining, from engines to oil wells and from turbochargers to construction recognize Kennametal for extraordinary contributions to their value chains. In fiscal year 2010, customers bought approximately $1.9 billion of Kennametal products and services – delivered by approximately 11,000 talented employees doing business in more than 60 countries – with more than 50 percent of these revenues coming from outside North America. |
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'''Kennametal''' is a metalworking and tool production company headquartered in [[Latrobe, Pennsylvania]], a city some {{convert|50|mi|km}} from [[Pittsburgh]]. The corporation specializes in advanced engineering and in the creation of products for high-tech or complex industries. Advanced materials such as tungsten carbide, specialty steels, diamonds, and heat and pressure resistant synthetics, are produced by Kennametal for heavy-duty industries. In March 2005, Kennametal purchased the [[Extrude Hone Corporation]]. In announcing the acquisition, the companies expressed the view that combining Extrude Hone's techniques with Kennametal's [[technological]] experience and worldwide operations would improve their ability to serve their customers. |
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| Company type | Public (NYSE: KMT) |
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| Industry | Metals |
| Founded | 1938 |
| Headquarters | Latrobe, Pennsylvania |
Key people | Carlos M. Cardoso, Chairman, President and CEO |
| Products | aggregates metalworking abrasive flow products cutting tools metallurgy mining equipment woodworking fluid handling |
| Revenue |  $2.0 billion USD |
Number of employees | 11,000 |
| Website | www.kennametal.com |
Kennametal (NYSE: KMT) delivers productivity to customers seeking peak performance in demanding environments by providing innovative custom and standard wear-resistant solutions. This proven productivity is enabled through the company's advanced materials sciences and application knowledge. The company's commitment to a sustainable environment provides additional value to its customers. Companies operating in everything from airframes to coal mining, from engines to oil wells and from turbochargers to construction recognize Kennametal for extraordinary contributions to their value chains. In fiscal year 2010, customers bought approximately $1.9 billion of Kennametal products and services – delivered by approximately 11,000 talented employees doing business in more than 60 countries – with more than 50 percent of these revenues coming from outside North America.
Production
Kennametal products:
- Blades, disks, skins, fuel control systems, and landing gear for the aerospace industry
- Synthetic fertilizers for agriculture
- Camshafts, crankshafts, cylinder heads, rotors, calipers and differentials for automobiles
- Roofing and abrasives for home construction
- Asphalt, stabilization tools, and tunneling equipment for road construction
- Woodworking tools
- Machining centers, small parts machines, and lathes for the tooling industry
- Mining equipment
- Abrasives and flow control for the oil industry
- Generating equipment for electric power plants
- Fluids for the paper industry
- Wheels and axles for the railroads
- Custom engineering