Kennametal
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Kennametal, Inc. | |
 |
|
| Type of Company | Public (NYSE: KMT) |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1938 |
| Headquarters | Latrobe, Pennsylvania |
| Key people | Carlos M. Cardoso, President and CEO |
| Industry | Metals |
| Products | aggregates metalworking abrasive flow products cutting tools metallurgy mining equipment woodworking fluid handling |
| Revenue |  $2.33 billion USD |
| Employees | 14,000 |
| Website | www.kennametal.com |
Kennametal is a metalworking and tool production company headquartered in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, a city some 50 miles 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.
Kennametal offers a wide range of products for various industries including:
- blades, disks, skins, fuel control systems, and landing gear for the aerospace industry
- synthetic fertilizers for agriculture
- camshafts, crankshafts, cylinder heads, rotors, caplipers and differentials for automobiles
- roofing and abrasives for home construction
- asphault, 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
| Pittsburgh-based Corporations (Within the Pittsburgh Metro Area) |
|---|
| Pittsburgh-based Fortune 500 Corporations: Alcoa | U.S. Steel | PPG | H.J. Heinz | PNC Financial | Mellon Financial | WESCO International |
| Pittsburgh-based Fortune 1000 Corporations: Allegheny Energy | Consol Energy | Allegheny Technologies | Dick's Sporting Goods | Kennametal | American Eagle Outfitters | Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel | Mylan |
| Pittsburgh-based Forbes Largest Private Companies: 84 Lumber | GNC | Giant Eagle | Sheetz |
| Externally owned, regionally based, and other Pittsburgh corporations: American Bridge | Ampco Pittsburgh | Bayer USA | Calgon Carbon | Dollar Bank | DQE Holdings | Eat'n Park | Federated Investors | FedEx Ground | GlaxoSmithKline | Guru.com | Highmark | iGate | Koppers | Michael Baker | Mine Safety Appliances | NOVA Chemicals | Oxford Development | Pittsburgh Brewing Company | Respironics | rue21 | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | Vivisimo | Wabtec |
