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LATROBE, Pa., Sept 04, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- Kennametal Inc. (NYSE: KMT) announced today that Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Carlos M. Cardoso, and Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Frank P. Simpkins, will meet with various members of the financial community on September 9, 2008, in Chicago, Illinois, during the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS). Discussion at the meetings will be limited to matters regarding IMTS and product offerings of the Metalworking Solutions and Services Group. Held every two years, IMTS showcases more than 1,500 exhibiting companies with more than 15,000 new machine tools, controls, computers, software, components, systems and processes.

Kennametal Inc. (NYSE: KMT) 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 more than $2.7 billion annually of Kennametal products and services -- delivered by our 14,000 talented employees in over 60 countries -- with more than 50 percent of these revenues coming from outside North America. Visit us at http://www.kennametal.com. [KMT-G]

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