Kennametal is a leading producer of metals founded in 1938 in the Pittsburgh suburb of Latrobe, Pennsylvania

Latrobe, Pennsylvania

Latrobe is a city in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania in the United States, approximately southeast of Pittsburgh.The city population was 7,634 as of the 2000 census . It is located near the Pennsylvania's scenic Chestnut Ridge. Latrobe was incorporated as a borough in 1854, and as a city in 1999...

 and still headquartered there. It 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
  Aerospace
  Aerospace comprises the atmosphere of Earth and surrounding space. Typically the term is used to refer to the industry that researches, designs, manufactures, operates, and maintains vehicles moving through air and space...
  
   industry
• Synthetic fertilizers for agriculture
  Agriculture
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• 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
  Machining
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   industries:
  • Machine tool
    Machine tool
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    s: Machining centers, turning centers [CNC lathes], automatic lathe
    Automatic lathe
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    s [screw machines]
  • Tooling for machine tools:
    • Indexable
      Indexing (motion)
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       toolholders, collet
      Collet
      A collet is a holding device—specifically, a subtype of chuck—that forms a collar around the object to be held and exerts a strong clamping force on the object when it is tightened, usually via a tapered outer collar. It may be used to hold a workpiece or a tool.A collet is a sleeve with a ...
      
      s
    • fixtures
      Fixture (tool)
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    • cutting tools (via Products Group, a consolidation
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       of various brands in this industry): inserts
      Tipped tool
      A tipped tool generally refers to any cutting tool where the cutting edge consists of a separate piece of material, either brazed, welded or clamped on to a separate body. Common materials for tips include tungsten carbide, polycrystalline diamond, and cubic boron nitride...
      
      , tool bit
      Tool bit
      The term tool bit generally refers to a non-rotary cutting tool used in metal lathes, shapers, and planers. Such cutters are also often referred to by the set-phrase name of single-point cutting tool. The cutting edge is ground to suit a particular machining operation and may be resharpened or...
      
      s, milling cutter
      Milling cutter
      Milling cutters are cutting tools typically used in milling machines or machining centres . They remove material by their movement within the machine or directly from the cutter's shape .-Features of a milling cutter:Milling cutters come in several shapes and many sizes...
      
      s, taps and dies, metal sawing cutters and tooling
• Mining equipment
• Abrasives and flow control for the oil
  Oil
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   industry
• Generating equipment for electric power plants
• Fluids for the paper industry
• Wheels and axles for the railroads
  Rail transport
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• Custom engineering