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Our Businesses

Kadant became a fully independent public company in 2001 and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (KAI).
However, our story began long before 2001, and many of our businesses have been serving industrial customers for more than 100 years. We are headquartered in Westford, Massachussets, with 19 major manufacturing locations around the world.

Balemaster

Crown Point, Indiana, United States

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Balemaster is a U.S. manufacturer of horizontal balers and related equipment used primarily for recycling packaging waste at corrugated box plants and large retail and distribution centers. 

Product Line - Balers

Clouth Group

Hückeswagen, Germany

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The Clouth Group is a global producer of doctor blades, coater blades, and creping blades.

Product Line - Doctoring

Cogent Industrial Technologies Ltd.

Richmond, British Columbia, Canada

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Cogent is an industrial automation and controls company  with expertise in process technology integration, project management, industrial safety, and operational performance management systems.

Product Line - Industrial Automation

Kadant Black Clawson LLC

Lebanon, Ohio, United States

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Kadant Black Clawson is an industry-leading fiber processing equipment supplier that provides innovative solutions for stock pulp preparation including wastepaper recycling, deinking, virgin fiber, and paper machine approach-flow applications. 

Product Line - Stock Preparation, Fiber Processing

Kadant Canada Corp.

Vaudreuil, Quebec, Canada

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Kadant Canada is responsible for the sale, support, and service of Kadant’s fluid handling and doctoring, cleaning, and filtration product lines to the pulp and paper industry and other process industries throughout Canada.

Product Line  - Doctoring, Cleaning, and Filtration

Product Line - Fluid Handling

Kadant Carmanah Design

Surrey, British Columbia, Canada

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Kadant Carmanah designs and manufactures equipment for the panel and engineered wood products, pulp and paper, and sawmill industries. Providing leading edge technology and equipment to optimize fiber use for the production of wood-based panels, 

Product Line - Wood Processing

Kadant Fiberline (China) Co., Ltd.

Jining, Shandong, China

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Kadant Fiberline China is an industry-leading fiber processing equipment supplier that provides innovative solutions for stock pulp preparation including wastepaper recycling, deinking, virgin fiber, and paper machine approach-flow applications. 

Product Line - Stock Preparation, Fiber Processing

Kadant GranTek Inc.

Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States

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Kadant GranTek in Green Bay, Wisconsin, transforms papermaking waste products into several viable cellulose granular products used as carriers for pest control in crop protection, green space maintenance, as an all-purpose industrial absorbent, and as premium cat box fillers.

Product Line - Fiber-based Products

Biodac® Granular Carrier
Gran-sorb® Industrial Absorbent

Kadant India Private Limited

Chennai, India

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Kadant India is a fiber-processing equipment supplier that provides innovative solutions for stock pulp preparation including wastepaper recycling, deinking, virgin fiber, and paper machine approach-flow applications.

Product Line - Stock Preparation, Fiber Processing

Kadant Johnson LLC

Three Rivers, Michigan, United States

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Kadant Johnson is a leading provider of rotary joints, precision unions, and fluid handling systems and equipment used to optimize the transfer of power, fluid, and data in rotary sealing applications found in process industries. 

Product Line - Fluid Handling

Kadant Johnson Deutschland GmbH

Langenfeld, Germany

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Kadant Johnson Deutschland is a sales division of Kadant Johnson Europe and responsible for the countries of Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Slovenia.

Product Line  - Doctoring, Cleaning, and Filtration

Product Line - Fluid Handling

Kadant Johnson Europe B.V.

Weesp, The Netherlands

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Kadant Johnson Europe B.V. provides rotary joints, syphons, and related accessories to the paper industry and other process industries such as corrugating, food, steel, rubber, plastic, textile, and printing.

Product Line - Fluid Handling

Kadant Johnson (Wuxi) Technology Co. Ltd.

Wuxi, Jiangsu, China

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Kadant Johnson (Wuxi) manufactures and sells rotary joints and syphon systems, steam and condensate systems, and other fluid handling systems to process industries to optimize the transfer of fluid and other media. In addition, they manufacture and sell doctoring, cleaning, and conditioning systems.

Product Line - Fluid Handling

Product Line - Doctoring, Cleaning, and Filtration

Kadant Lamort SAS

Vitry-le-Francois, France

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Kadant Lamort is a leading fiber processing and recycling equipment supplier that designs, manufactures, and services equipment used in virgin and recycled paper stock preparation and paper machine approach-flow applications.

Product Lines - Stock Preparation, Fiber Processing

Kadant Mexico, S.A. de C.V.

Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

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Kadant Mexico’s main product lines include: fluid handling products and systems that transfer fluid, power, and data between fixed piping and rotating components; roll doctoring and scraping products that clean roll surfaces; cleaning and filtration systems that clean fabrics and filter and recycle process water; and fiber processing systems for recovering recycled fibers and processing virgin fibers.

Product Line - Doctoring, Cleaning, and Filtration

Product Line - Fluid Handling

Kadant Nordic AB

Huskvarna, Sweden

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Kadant Nordic sells and supports the fluid handling, doctoring, cleaning, and filtration product lines in the pulp and paper industry and other process industries in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland.  

Product Line - Doctoring, Cleaning, and Filtration

Product Line - Fluid Handling

Kadant Noss AB

Norrköping, Sweden

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Kadant Noss AB is an industry-leading fiber processing equipment and system supplier that provides innovative solutions for chemical and mechanical pulp applications, as well as approach-flow applications in front of paper, board, and tissue machines. 

Product Lines - Stock Preparation, Fiber Processing

Kadant PAAL GmbH

Georgsmarienhütte, Germany

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Kadant PAAL is a manufacturer of baling presses, specializing in the design and manufacture of high-performance balers and ancillary equipment. Its primary products include horizontal balers and conveyors used to process recyclable waste and agricultural materials.

Product Line - Balers

Balers
Conveyors
Labeling

Kadant Solutions Division

Auburn, Massachusetts, United States

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Kadant Solutions develops, manufactures, and markets a wide range of doctoring, cleaning, filtration, and forming systems and related consumables used in process industries worldwide including construction roofing materials, food processing, metals processing, nonwovens, pulp & paper, textiles & fibers, and tissue. 

Product Line - Doctoring, Cleaning, and Filtration

 

Kadant South America Ltda.

Valinhos, Brazil

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Kadant South America designs and manufactures products that play an essential role in improving process efficiency, optimizing energy use, and maximizing productivity in resource-intensive sectors. 

Product Line - Doctoring, Cleaning, and Filtration

Product Line - Fluid Handling

Product Line - Stock Preparation, Fiber Processing

Kadant Unaflex LLC

Anderson, South Carolina, United States

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Kadant Unaflex LLC is a leading manufacturer of expansion joints, compensators, and custom-engineered flexible hose for process industries such as petrochemical, power generation, and water treatment, among others.

Product Line - Fluid Handling

Expansion Joints
Flexible Metal Hose & Connectors
Industrial Hose

Kadant UK Ltd.

Bury, Lancashire, United Kingdom

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Kadant UK Ltd. designs and manufactures doctoring, cleaning, and filtration product lines to process industries across all of Europe, Africa, the Middle East, India, and Southeast Asia. In addition, Kadant UK provides sales and applications expertise of fluid handling products.

Product Line - Doctoring, Cleaning, and Filtration

Product Line - Fluid Handling

Nicholson Manufacturing Ltd.

Sidney, British Columbia, Canada

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Nicholson Manufacturing is a global leader in the design and manufacture of a range of ring debarkers, from low-speed to high-speed, that are used by sawmills, OSB mills, plywood mills, veneer mills, and other manufacturers in the forest products industry. 

Product Line - Wood Processing

Syntron Material Handling

Saltillo, Mississippi, United States

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Syntron Material Handling is a world leader in delivering innovative material handling solutions. For more than 100 years, Syntron Material Handling has been at the forefront of conveying and vibration technology, providing exceptional performance and value in bulk material handling through our Link-Belt® and Syntron® brands.

Product line - Conveying and Vibratory Equipment

Valon Kone Oy

Lohja, Finland

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Valon Kone (VK) designs and produces rotor debarkers and is a global leader in the design and manufacture of high-speed ring debarkers used by sawmills, veneer mills, and other manufacturers in the forest products industry.

Product Line - Wood Processing

Debarkers
Fixed Butt Reducer
Centering Conveyors

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