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Kadant Inc(KAI)

Description: Kadant Inc. engages in developing, manufacturing, and marketing equipment and products for the papermaking, paper recycling, and processing industries. The company offers custom-engineered systems and equipments, such as recycling and approach flow systems, and virgin pulping process equipment, as well as individual components, for pulping, de-inking, screening, cleaning, and refining recycled and virgin fibers for preparation for entry into the paper machine. It also provides fluid-handling systems, including rotary joints, syphons, turbulator bars, engineered steam and condensate systems, precision unions, and components and controls that are used primarily in the dryer section of the papermaking process, as well as in the production of corrugated boxboard, metals, plastics, rubber, textiles, chemicals, and food. In addition, the company offers doctoring systems and related consumables for the operation of paper machines; doctor blades for cleaning, creping, web removal, flaking, and the application of coatings; and profiling systems that control moisture, web curl, and gloss during paper converting. Further, it provides shower and fabric-conditioning, formation, and water-filtration systems that are used to clean paper machine fabrics and rolls, drain water from pulp mixtures, form the sheet or web, and filter the process water for reuse. Additionally, the company manufactures and sells biodegradable absorbent granules from papermaking byproducts primarily used as carriers for agricultural, home lawn and garden, professional lawn, turf, and ornamental applications, as well as for oil and grease absorption. It primarily has operations in the United States, China, and Europe. The company was formerly known as Thermo Fibertek Inc. and changed its name to Kadant Inc. in July 2001. Kadant Inc. was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Westford, Massachusetts.


Keywords: Chemical Plastic Printing Visual Arts Textiles Rubber Packaging Materials Paper Recycling Water Conservation Papermaking Grease Reuse Process Equipment Pulp And Paper Industry Filtration Systems Paper Recycling Water Filtration Systems Fluid Handling Systems

Home Page: www.kadant.com

KAI Technical Analysis

One Technology Park Drive
Westford, MA 01886
United States
Phone: 978 776 2000


Officers

Name Title
Mr. Jeffrey L. Powell Pres, CEO & Director
Mr. Michael J. McKenney Exec. VP & CFO
Ms. Stacy D. Krause Sr. VP, Gen. Counsel & Sec.
Mr. Peter J. Flynn Sr. VP
Ms. Deborah S. Selwood Sr. VP & Chief Accounting Officer
Ms. Dara F. Mitchell Sr. VP of Corp. Devel.
Mr. Wesley A. Martz VP of Marketing
Mr. Orrin H. Bean Treasurer

Exchange: NYSE

Country: US

Currency: US Dollar ($)

GIC Sector: Industrials
GIC Group: Capital Goods
GIC Industry: Machinery
GIC Sub-Industry: Industrial Machinery
Forward PE: 20.6186
Trailing PE: 18.4535
Price-to-Book MRQ: 3.6148
Price-to-Sales TTM: 2.3211
IPO Date: 1992-11-03
Fiscal Year End: January
Full Time Employees: 3000
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