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Conforma Clad to Deliver Advanced Wear Protection Webinar to Power Generation Executives

New Albany, IN - September 10, 2007

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Conforma Clad, a global leader of severe wear solutions, is sponsoring a webinar entitled “Advanced Wear Solutions for Power Generation” to Power Generation Executives.

Experts from Conforma Clad, a Kennametal company, will be hosting the event on October 24, 2007, from 10:30-11:15 p.m. EDT.  The recommended audience for this webinar includes executives, managers, engineers and maintenance technicians in coal-fired power plants.  Visit www.conformaclad.com/WebinarRegistration.html for more details and to register.

Speakers for the webinar will be Chris Harley, Senior Applications Engineer and Alun Davies, Power Generation Market Manager.  “Engineers and Maintenance crews are expected to identify, predict and solve potential outage causing equipment failures,” said Harley.  “This webinar will address advanced materials and technologies that will help solve wear issues and prevent downtime due to equipment failures caused by wear.”

Conforma Clad applies its cladding to components including: fans, burners, riffles, popcorn screens, shaft seal sleeves, and boiler tubes.  Boiler tube failure is the number one source of forced outages in all coal fired power generation plants.  One of the major causes for premature tube failure is excessive fireside boiler tube erosion caused by the impact, cutting action, and abrasive wear of fly ash entrained flue gases undercutting the area they strike.  It is estimated, that these plants lose approximately 6% of their power generation annually, due to boiler tube leaks – 23% of which is due to erosive wear. 

Conforma Clad is a leading provider of severe wear solutions for industrial components exposed to extreme abrasion, corrosion and erosion. The proprietary Conforma Clad® process brazes tungsten carbide to the base material of steel parts, producing a hard, uniform protective cladding that is extremely durable. The company is a major supplier of wear-resistant parts for directional oil and gas drilling, plastics and food extrusion, coal-fired power plants and other industrial applications. Conforma Clad is a subsidiary of Kennametal Inc. (NYSE: KMT), the world's premier supplier of tooling solutions, engineered components and advanced materials. Customers buy approximately $2.4 billion annually of Kennametal products and services -- delivered by 13,500 talented employees in over 60 countries -- with approximately 50 percent of these revenues coming from outside the United States. Visit us at www.conformaclad.com and our parent company at www.kennametal.com.