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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000055242-25-000013"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "KMT"
cik: "0000055242"
company_name: "KENNAMETAL INC"
filed_at: "2025-01-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T05:59:00.423979+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Kennametal appoints Doug Dietrich to board; declares $0.20 quarterly dividend

## Summary
- Douglas Dietrich, Chairman/CEO of Minerals Technologies, appointed to board effective Feb 1, 2025.
- Dietrich will serve on Audit Committee; term runs until Oct 2025 annual meeting.
- Board declared $0.20 per share quarterly cash dividend, payable Feb 25 to holders of record Feb 11.
- Dividend consistent with prior quarterly rate; no change announced.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000055242-25-000013
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: KMT
- cik: 0000055242
- company_name: KENNAMETAL INC
- filed_at: 2025-01-30T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/55242/000005524225000013/0000055242-25-000013-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/55242/000005524225000013/kmt-20250128.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000055242-25-000013
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000055242-25-000013.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000055242-25-000013.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Doug Dietrich was appointed as member of the Board of Directors at KENNAMETAL INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: member of the Board of Directors
  source text: On January 28, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Kennametal Inc. (the “Company”) announced the appointment of Doug Dietrich, age 55, to serve as a member of the Board of Directors to hold office from February 1, 2025 until the Annual Meeting of Shareholders in October 2025
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/55242/000005524225000013/0000055242-25-000013-index.htm

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