| 词条 | Kadant |
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| name = Kadant Inc. | type = Public | traded_as = {{NYSE|KAI}} Russell 2000 Component | industry = Diversified machinery | products = Stock preparation systems, fluid handling systems, roll doctoring, cleaning and filtration, fiber-based granules | foundation = {{Start date|1991}} | location_city = Westford, Massachusetts | location_country = United States | key_people = Jonathan W. Painter ({{small| CEO, President, Chief Operating Officer and Director}}) | homepage ={{URL|http://www.kadant.com }} }}Kadant Inc. is a company that was established in 1991 as a partly privately owned subsidiary of Thermo Electron, and partly publicly-traded company, and was fully spun out and renamed Kadant in 2001. The company focuses on papermaking, paper recycling, and other processing industries over the United States, China, and Europe.[1][2] Kadant has operations in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia.[3] HistoryThe company was established as Thermo Fibrotek in 1991 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Thermo Electron[4]{{rp|9 of Exhibit 13}} as part of its parent's strategy to innovate and grow by creating subsidiaries that were privately owned in part, and publicly-traded in part.[5] Its initial focus was paper making and paper recycling equipment.[4][5] In 1996 the company set up a subsidiary, Thermo Fibergen, which it in turn made partially publicly traded, to focus on technologies to recover products from paper-making waste products; that company in turn acquired Granulation Technology, Inc. and created a division called GranTek that produced granules from sludge that were used, for example, as a carrier for agricultural chemicals and pesticides.[4] The original plan was that Fibergen would build its plants adjacent to paper-making plants to process their waste, but this plan failed because it required paper-making plants to commit to long-term contracts to dispose of their waste, which they were unwilling to do.[9] The granule business became the focus of Fibergen, helped in part by enzymologist Anatole Klyosov.[9] In 1997 the company acquired Black Clawson for $110 million.[6] In 2001, Thermo Electron fully spun out Thermo Fibrotek, which changed its name to Kadant at the same time;[7] the Fibrogen division was renamed to Kadant Composites at the same time.[8] The granule business of Kadant Composites took off when the company started using it as a filler in composite plastics products for decking, with sales growing from under $2 million in 2001 to $15 million in 2004.[8] In 2013 the company acquired Carmanah Design and Manufacturing Inc. for Canadian dollars (CAD) 54 million in cash, or approximately US$52 million.[9] ProductsKadant engages in mainly four segments: stock preparation systems, fluid handling systems, roll doctoring, cleaning and filtration, and fiber-based granules. Kadant provides custom-engineered systems (e.g. recycling and approach flow systems) and equipment (e.g. virgin pulping process equipment). The company also provides fluid-handling systems (e.g. rotary joints, syphons, turbulator bars, precision unions) widely used in the dryer section of the papermaking process, and the production of corrugated boxboard, metals, plastics, rubber, textiles, chemicals, and food. In addition, the company offers doctoring systems (e.g. doctor blades), profiling systems, shower and fabric-conditioning, formation, and water filtration systems Kaden also provides individual components, widely used in pulping, de-inking, screening, cleaning, refining recycled. The company supplies biodegradable absorbent granules from papermaking byproducts for some agriculture uses.[10] Research and developmentKadant's Research and Development facilities are based in Europe and the USA, engaging in fiber processing, heat transfer, doctoring, and fluid handling. This facilities are located where customers can test under their own operating conditions. The company also holds seminars and training programs.[11] References1. ^{{cite web |url=https://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=KAI+Profile|title= Business Summary }} 2. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/companyProfile?rpc=66&symbol=KAI|title= Company Full Description}} 3. ^{{cite web |title=Kadant Inc. Revenue and Financial Data |url=http://www.hoovers.com/company-information/cs/revenue-financial.Kadant_Inc.21b8afb5bc780f68.html}} 4. ^1 2 {{cite web|title=Thermo Fibrotek 10-K for FY 1996|url=https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/886346/0000886346-97-000002.txt|publisher=SEC Edgar|date=March 14, 1997}} 5. ^1 {{cite news|last1=Holusha|first1=John|title=Market Place; Thermo Electron bucks the slow growth in environment services.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/04/business/market-place-thermo-electron-bucks-the-slow-growth-in-environment-services.html|work=The New York Times|date=4 June 1993}} 6. ^{{cite news|title=Thermo Fibertek to Buy Black Clawson for $110 Million|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/28/business/thermo-fibertek-to-buy-black-clawson-for-110-million.html|work=Dow Jones via The New York Times|date=28 February 1997}} 7. ^{{cite web|title=Press Release: Thermo Fibertek Announces Details of Spinoff|url=http://ir.thermofisher.com/investors/news-and-events/news-releases/news-release-details/2001/Thermo-Fibertek-Announces-Details-of-Spinoff/default.aspx|date=July 10, 2001}} 8. ^1 2 3 {{cite news|last1=Schut|first1=Jan H.|title=From Paper-Mill Sludge to Plastic Decking |url=http://www.ptonline.com/articles/from-paper-mill-sludge-to-plastic-decking|work=Plastics Technology|date=October 2004}} 9. ^{{cite web |url=http://investor.kadant.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=89087&p=irol-newsArticle&id=1871378|title=Kadant to Acquire Carmanah Design and Manufacturing}} 10. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.kadant.com/products/products.html|title = Kadant Products}} 11. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.google.com/finance?cid=656471&hl=en|title= Research & Development }} External links
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