---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000055242-25-000040"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "KMT"
cik: "0000055242"
company_name: "KENNAMETAL INC"
filed_at: "2025-05-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T01:22:40.443196+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Kennametal appoints Shelley Bausch to Board; Cindy L. Davis to retire Sep 1

## Summary
- Shelley Bausch, age 60, joins Kennametal Board effective May 1, 2025; will serve on Audit Committee.
- Bausch is retired President, Global Industrial Coatings at Axalta; over 30 years in manufacturing leadership.
- Cindy L. Davis will retire from Board on Sep 1, 2025, after 13 years; will not seek re-election in Oct 2025.
- Davis currently serves as Chair of Compensation and Human Capital Committee.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000055242-25-000040
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: KMT
- cik: 0000055242
- company_name: KENNAMETAL INC
- filed_at: 2025-05-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/55242/000005524225000040/0000055242-25-000040-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/55242/000005524225000040/kmt-20250429.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000055242-25-000040
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000055242-25-000040.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000055242-25-000040.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Cindy L. Davis departed as Member of the Board of Directors at KENNAMETAL INC.
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Member of the Board of Directors
  source text: Cindy L. Davis provided notice to the Company that she does not intend to run for re-election to the Board at the Annual Meeting of Shareowners to be held in October 2025. She will retire from the Board as of September 1, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/55242/000005524225000040/0000055242-25-000040-index.htm
- Executive change
  Shelley Bausch was appointed as Member of the Board of Directors at KENNAMETAL INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Member of the Board of Directors
  source text: the appointment of Shelley Bausch, age 60, to serve as a member of the Board of Directors to hold office from May 1, 2025
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/55242/000005524225000040/0000055242-25-000040-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.