Cutting tools maker celebrates 80 years

Cutting tool manufacturer, Widia, celebrates its 80th year in metal working with a major event in germany, attended by over 100 guests as well as Kennametal management.

Widia has a proud 80 year history of a premier metal working business.

Their technology and innovation is stronger and dynamic than ever.

More than 100 guests, starting from Widia Distributors globally up to the Executive Management from Kennametal, USA, celebrated the 80 year Widia anniversary at the end of September in Essen, Germany.

The celebration ceremony was accompanied by presentations about Kenametal and featured Widia's History and the new developed distribution strategy for this brand.

Later after the guided tours through the plant in Essen, the visitors heard presentations on Widia's intensive efforts in research, development and production, in keeping with its long tradition of creating innovative products for long-term customer benefit.

Widia offers a full scope of premier product range for Turning, Milling, Drilling and Systems.

All new products are the result of development programs that reflect the customers' needs and successful fundamental research.

Widia has been developed to an exclusive product line for value added distributor partners.

Currently 60 exclusive partners worldwide located in Europe, Asia as well in North America distribute the products.

That means that Widia is today a financially rewarding selective distribution line, offered by technically-oriented value-based distributors.

The live includes a full-range offering of high performance tools allowing distributor differentiation in a variety of general engineering markets, including: automotive, aerospace, contract production, rail, energy, die and mold, fluid power, pumps and valves and heavy duty machining industries.

Kennametal is a leading global supplier of tooling, engineered components and advanced materials consumed in production processes.

The company improves customers' competitiveness by providing superior economic returns through the delivery of application knowledge and advanced technology to master the toughest of materials application demands.

Companies producing everything from airframes to coal, from medical implants to oil wells and from turbochargers to motorcycle parts recognize Kennametal for extraordinary contributions to their value chains.

Customers buy over US$2.3 billion annually of Kennametal products and services - delivered by some 13,500 talented employees in over 60 countries - with almost 50 percent of these revenues coming from outside the United States.

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