Business Description
Kaman Corporation, headquartered in Bloomfield, Connecticut, was incorporated
in 1945. We are a diversified company that conducts business in the aerospace
and distribution markets. We report information for ourselves and our subsidiaries
in two business segments, Distribution and Aerospace.
The Distribution segment brings our commitment to technological leadership
and value-added services to the distribution business. The Distribution segment
is a leading power transmission, motion control, electrical and automation,
and fluid power industrial distributor with operations throughout the United
States. We provide products, including bearings, mechanical and electrical power
transmission, fluid power, motion control, automation, material handling components,
electrical control and power distribution, and MRO supplies to a broad spectrum
of industrial markets throughout the United States. Locations consist of approximately
240 branches, distribution centers and call centers across the United States
(including Puerto Rico). We offer approximately four million items, as well
as value-added services, to approximately 65,000 active customers representing
a highly diversified cross section of industry.
The Aerospace segment produces and markets proprietary aircraft bearings and
components; super precision, miniature ball bearings; complex metallic and composite
aerostructures for commercial, military and general aviation fixed and rotary
wing aircraft; safe and arming solutions for missile and bomb systems for the
U.S. and allied militaries; subcontract helicopter work; restoration, modification
and support of our SH-2G Super Seasprite maritime helicopters; manufacture and
support of our K-MAX® manned and unmanned medium-to-heavy lift helicopters;
and engineering design, analysis and certification services.
Principal customers include the U.S. military, Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation,
The Boeing Company, Airbus, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Bell Helicopter. The
SH-2G aircraft is currently in service with the Egyptian Air Force and the New
Zealand and Polish navies. Operations are conducted throughout the United States,
as well as in facilities located in the United Kingdom, Germany, the Czech Republic
and Mexico. Additionally, the Company maintains an investment in a joint venture
in India.
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