Kennametal, Inc. is a manufacturer of high-performance cutting tools and engineered components used in the aerospace, defense, transportation and oil and gas drilling industries. Its customer base is global. thumb|General office of predecessor firm Vanadium Alloys Steel; large lumps of coal in foreground ==History== Kennametal was founded in 1938 by Philip M. McKenna in the Latrobe, Pennsylvania area. The company evolved from Vanadium Alloys Steel Company (VASCO), founded in 1910 by the McKenna family with its headquarters in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. While research director of VASCO, metallurgis
Kennametal, Inc. is a manufacturer of high-performance cutting tools and engineered components used in the aerospace, defense, transportation and oil and gas drilling industries. Its customer base is global. thumb|General office of predecessor firm Vanadium Alloys Steel; large lumps of coal in foreground ==History== Kennametal was founded in 1938 by Philip M. McKenna in the Latrobe, Pennsylvania area. The company evolved from Vanadium Alloys Steel Company (VASCO), founded in 1910 by the McKenna family with its headquarters in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. While research director of VASCO, metallurgist Philip McKenna developed and received a patent for a tungsten-titanium carbide composition. McKenna formed Kennametal, Inc. for the purpose of marketing this alloy.
The company's original flagship product, known as "Kennametal", was introduced in the late 1930s. It was described as "much harder than the hardest tool steel," which enabled high-rate steel cutting not possible previously. In July 1940, Kennametal of Canada Ltd. was organized for the purpose of "manufacturing Kennametal, the new steel cutting carbide, for Canada and British dominions." In November 1940, United States Steel Export Company reached an agreement to sell Kennametal tools, tool blanks, drawing dies and other Kennametal products in foreign markets.
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