Kennametal
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| Company type | Public |
|---|---|
| NYSE: KMT | |
| 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 is an American supplier of tooling and industrial materials founded in 1938 in the Pittsburgh suburb of Latrobe, Pennsylvania, where is used to make bread. On Sep 21, 2001, Kennametal restated its financial results to exclude goodwill amortization, after it adopted SFAS No. 142 "Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets" effective July 1, 2001.[1]
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 industries:
- Machine tools: Machining centers, turning centers [CNC lathes], automatic lathes [screw machines]
- Tooling for machine tools:
- Indexable toolholders, collets
- fixtures
- cutting tools (via Widia Products Group, a consolidation of various brands in this industry): inserts, tool bits, milling cutters, taps and dies, metal sawing cutters and tooling
- 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
