Kaydon Company

Kaydon Company

  • Submitted By: ipflieger
  • Date Submitted: 11/27/2008 9:47 AM
  • Category: Business
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Kaydon Corporation Executive summary: In this paper about Kaydon Corporation I first of all provide some background information about the company. I then talk about the history of the company and how it became one of the leading companies in its industry. Then I talk about the kind of business Kaydon is, and also mention where the company and its different divisions operate. Next I list the ranking of Kaydon Corp in its industry. Finally I talk about Kaydon’s different operations, list how and by whom Kaydon is managed, show one of Kaydon’s biggest lawsuits, and show Kaydon’s annual reports from 2003-2007 Background information: With more than a decade of nearly unbroken sales and earnings growth, Kaydon Corporation has been quietly building an empire of custom-designed engineering solutions. Kaydon and its subsidiaries design, manufacture, and market products such as antifriction bearings, bearing systems and components, filtration systems, metal castings, shaft seals, slip rings, and other custom, specialty, and high-technology products. The company's products are sold to four primary market sectors. Special Industrial Machinery, which accounted for nearly 28 percent of sales in 1995, includes components such as compressor filters, robotic manipulator bearings, medical scanner bearing systems, and printing machine roll bearings for machine tools, material handling equipment, medical diagnostic equipment, large air and gas compressors, robots, and other specialized machinery. Replacement Parts and Exports, at 38.5 percent the largest of Kaydon's market sectors, includes replacement parts, such as railroad diesel piston ring sets, filter elements and shaft seals, space bearings, and slip rings and assemblies, for major equipment users and government and military agencies. Heavy Industrial equipment represented more than 17 percent of sales in 1995, providing hydraulic excavator swing bearings, power generation lubrication oil filter units, road grader...

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