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LATROBE, Pa., Aug 30, 2006 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- Kennametal Inc. (NYSE: KMT) announced today that it is providing supplemental information regarding selected fiscal year 2006 financial results, which should be read in connection with the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on August 29, 2006. The information includes non-GAAP financial measures and, in accordance with SEC Regulation G, the company has provided a reconciliation for each non-GAAP financial measure to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure. The supplemental information is accessible on the company's website at www.kennametal.com. From the homepage, click on the link to "Corporate", and then click "Investor Relations".

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 over $2 billion annually of Kennametal products and services-delivered by more than 13,000 talented employees in over 60 countries -- with almost 50 percent of these revenues coming from outside the United States. Visit us at www.kennametal.com. [KMT-G]

SOURCE Kennametal Inc.

Investor Relations, Quynh McGuire, +1-724-539-6559,
 or Media Relations, Joy Chandler,
+1-724-539-4618, both of Kennametal Inc.

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