Kennametal Inc. Announces Two Changes to Its Business Segment Leadership and Executive Management Team
January 16, 2018 at 06:45 am
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Kennametal Inc. announced two changes to its business segment leadership and executive management team. Effective January 16, 2018, Peter Dragich will become Kennametal vice president and president of the Industrial business with global responsibility for growth and modernization of the company's metalworking solutions and services. At the same time, Ron Port will become Kennametal vice president and president of the Infrastructure business segment with global responsibility for the company's advanced materials, earth cutting tools, engineering components and ceramics business. Dragich has led Kennametal's Infrastructure business for the past two years, and served as the company's vice president of supply chain and logistics before that. Prior to joining Kennametal, he was vice president, global field operations, climate, controls and security for United Technologies Corporation. Port joined Kennametal in 2015 and most recently led the company's global engineered components business within the Infrastructure team. Prior to Kennametal, he led global P&L roles at Xylem Inc. and ITT Corporation, and led strategy and business development for SPX Corp. (Flow Industrial). Dragich and Port will report directly to Kennametal President and CEO Chris Rossi.
Kennametal Inc. is an industrial technology company, which serves customers across the aerospace and defense, earthworks, energy, general engineering and transportation end markets. The Company's segments include Metal Cutting and Infrastructure. The Metal Cutting segment develops and manufactures tooling and metal cutting products and services and offers an assortment of standard and custom metal cutting solutions to diverse end markets. The Metal Cutting segment offers products, including milling, hole making, turning, threading and toolmaking systems used in the manufacture of airframes, aero engines, trucks and automobiles, ships and various types of industrial equipment. The Infrastructure segment produces engineered tungsten carbide and ceramic components, earth-cutting tools, and advanced metallurgical powders, for the aerospace and defense, energy, earthworks and general engineering end markets. The Infrastructure segment markets its products under the Kennametal brand.
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