Kennametal Inc. announced that effective August 31, 2020, Mr. Peter A. Dragich will no longer serve as Vice President and Chief Operations Officer, Metal Cutting. Mr. Dragich will remain an employee of the Company for transition purposes until November 2020, or such earlier time as agreed to by the Company and Mr. Dragich. Effective September 1, 2020, Mr. Naeem Rahman will join Kennametal as Vice President Operations, Metal Cutting. Mr. Rahman will report to President and Chief Executive Officer, Christopher Rossi. Mr. Rahman has more than twenty years of experience in global operations and business leadership. He will join Kennametal from TE Connectivity where he most recently served as Global Operations Director for one of the company’s business units. Mr. Rahman will be responsible for the Metal Cutting segment’s P&L and driving operational excellence across the Metal Cutting operations globally.
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.