Kennametal

Kennametal is an American supplier of tooling and industrial materials founded in 1938 by Philip M. McKenna in the Latrobe, Pennsylvania, area.

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 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 rail transport
 * Custom engineering

Brands
In 2009, Kennametal announced that they migrated all its current brands into two distinct portfolios: WIDIA Products Group and Kennametal Products Group.

WIDIA Products Group
On August 30, 2002, Kennametal completed acquisition of Widia Group from Miacron Inc. for 188 million Euros in cash. This group markets four brands WIDIA, Hanita, and WIDIA GTD. The GTD stands for Greenfield Tap & Die and was initially formed in 1912.

Kennametal Products Group
Kennametal Products Group provides metalworking tools, metal powders, and wear-resistant coatings such as Conforma-Clad and Stellite.