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IDEX Corporation and Kennametal Inc.

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IDEX Corporation

IDEX Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides applied solutions in the United States, rest of North America, Europe, Asia, and internationally. The company operates through three segments: Fluid & Metering Technologies (FMT), Health & Science Technologies (HST), and Fire & Safety/Diversified Products (FSDP). The FMT segment designs, produces, and distributes positive displacement pumps, valves, small volume provers, flow meters, injectors, and other fluid-handling pump modules and systems, as well as flow monitoring and other services for the general industrial, water and wastewater, energy, chemical, agriculture, semiconductor, and food and pharmaceutical industries. The HST segment designs, produces, and distributes precision fluidics, positive displacement pumps, powder and liquid processing technologies, drying systems, micro-precision components, pneumatic components and sealing solutions, moulded and extruded sealing components, shaft seals, engineered hygienic mixers and valves, biocompatible medical devices and implantable, air compressors and blowers, optical components and coatings, laboratory and commercial equipment, technical ceramics and hermetic sealing products, porous material structures, flow control solutions, and precision photonic solutions. This segment serves life sciences, general industrial, analytical instruments, semiconductor, food and pharmaceutical, energy, automotive, aerospace/defense, and medical/dental markets. The FSDP segment designs, produces, and distributes firefighting pumps, valves and controls, rescue tools, engineered stainless steel banding and clamping devices, lifting bags, other components and systems, and precision equipment for dispensing, metering, and mixing colorants and paints. This segment serves fire suppression, paint dispensing, rescue tools, automotive, general industrial, aerospace/defense, and energy markets. The company was incorporated in 1987 and is headquartered in Northbrook, Illinois.

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Kennametal Inc.

Kennametal Inc. engages in development and application of tungsten carbides, ceramics, and hard materials and solutions worldwide. It operates through two segments, Metal Cutting and Infrastructure. The Metal Cutting segment offers 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 under the Kennametal, WIDIA, WIDIA Hanita, and WIDIA GTD brands through its direct sales force, a network of independent and national distributors, integrated supplier channels, and digitally. Its Infrastructure segment produces engineered tungsten carbide and ceramic components, earth-cutting tools, and metallurgical powders, such as compacts, nozzles, frac seats, and custom components used in oil and gas and petrochemical industries; rod blanks and abrasive water jet nozzles for general industries; earth cutting tools and systems used in underground mining, trenching and foundation drilling, and road milling; tungsten carbide powders for the oil and gas, aerospace, and process industries; high temperature critical wear components, tungsten penetrators, and armor solutions for aerospace and defense; and ceramics used by the packaging industry for metallization of films and papers under the Kennametal brand through a direct sales force and distributors. The company was founded in 1938 and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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