On January 28, 2020, the Board of Directors Kennametal Inc. announced the appointment of Ronald Port to serve as Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer, Metal Cutting business segments. The Board also elected Franklin Cardenas to serve as Vice President and President, Infrastructure Business Segment effective on or about February 10, 2020 as successor to Mr. Port, who held this position previously. Mr. Port and Mr. Cardenas will report to Kennametal President and Chief Executive Officer, Christopher 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.