KENNAMETAL, INC.
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Registration No. 333-___________

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 9, 2004

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON D.C. 20549


FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933


KENNAMETAL INC.

     
Pennsylvania
(State or jurisdiction of
Incorporation or organization)
  25-0900168
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)

World Headquarters
1600 Technology Way
P.O. Box 231
Latrobe, Pennsylvania 15650-0231

(Address of principal executive offices)


KENNAMETAL INC.
STOCK AND INCENTIVE PLAN OF 2002

(Full title of the plan)


     
David W. Greenfield, Esquire
Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel
Kennametal Inc.
World Headquarters
1600 Technology Way
P.O. Box 231
Latrobe, Pennsylvania 15650-0231

  Copies of communications to:
Ronald Basso, Esquire
Buchanan Ingersoll PC
One Oxford Centre
301 Grant Street, 20th Floor
Pittsburgh, PA 15219-1410
412-562-8800
(Name and address of agent for service)
724-539-5000
(Telephone number of agent for service)
 


                 
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

 
        Proposed Maximum   Proposed Maximum    
Title of Securities To Be   Amount to Be   Offering Price   Aggregate Offering   Amount of
Registered   Registered   Per Share   Price   Registration Fee
                 
Capital Stock(1)
(par value $1.25 per share)
  2,000,000 shares   $47.60(2)   $95,200,000   $12,061.84(3)

 

(1)   Includes Preferred Stock Purchase Rights. Prior to the occurrence of certain events, such rights will not be exercisable or evidenced separately from the Capital Stock.

(2)   Estimated solely for purposes of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(h). In accordance with Rule 457(h), such price is the average of the high and low sale prices for the Capital Stock as quoted on the New York Stock Exchange on November 3, 2004.

(3)   Calculated pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Securities Act of 1933.

 


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INCORPORATION OF PRIOR REGISTRATION STATEMENTS BY REFERENCE
SIGNATURES
EXHIBIT INDEX
EXHIBIT 5.01
EXHIBIT 23.01


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INCORPORATION OF PRIOR REGISTRATION STATEMENTS BY REFERENCE

     Kennametal Inc. (the “Corporation”) hereby incorporates by reference into this Registration Statement the information contained in the Corporation’s earlier Registration Statement, File No. 333-100867, relating to the Corporation’s Stock and Incentive Plan of 2002; provided, however, that with respect to Part II, Item 5 therein, Mr. William R. Newlin is no longer the Managing Director or a shareholder of Buchanan Ingersoll PC.

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SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in Unity Township, Westmoreland County, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, on this 9th day of November, 2004.

         
  KENNAMETAL INC.
 
 
  By:   /s/ David W. Greenfield    
    David W. Greenfield   
    Vice President, Secretary and
General Counsel 
 
 

     KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Markos I. Tambakeras and David W. Greenfield, and each of them, such person’s true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and revocation, for such person and in such person’s name, place and stead, in any and all capacities to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments to this Registration Statement) and to file the same with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents and purposes as such person might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agent or any of them, or their or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue thereof.

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated on this 9th day of November, 2004.

     
Signature   Capacity          
 
   
/s/ Markos I. Tambakeras
  Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer

 
   
Markos I. Tambakeras
   
 
   
/s/ F. Nicholas Grasberger, III
  Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

 
   
F. Nicholas Grasberger, III
   
 
   
/s/ Timothy A. Hibbard
  Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer

 
   
Timothy A. Hibbard
   
 
   
/s/ Peter B. Bartlett
  Director

 
   
Peter B. Bartlett
   

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/s/ Ronald M. DeFeo
  Director

 
   
Ronald M. DeFeo
   
 
   
/s/ A. Peter Held
  Director

 
   
A. Peter Held
   
 
   
/s/ Kathleen J. Hempel
  Director

 
   
Kathleen J. Hempel
   
 
   
/s/ William R. Newlin
  Director

 
   
William R. Newlin
   
 
   
/s/ Lawrence W. Stranghoener
  Director

 
   
Lawrence W. Stranghoener
   
 
   
/s/ Larry D. Yost
  Director

 
   
Larry D. Yost
   

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EXHIBIT INDEX

     
EXHIBIT NO.
  DESCRIPTION
 
   
4.01
  Rights Agreement, effective as of November 2, 2000 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 1 of Form 8-A filed on October 10, 2000)
   
4.02
  First Amendment to Rights Agreement, made and entered into as of October 6, 2004 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of Form 8-K filed on October 6, 2004)
 
   
5.01
  Opinion of Buchanan Ingersoll PC
 
   
10.01
  Stock and Incentive Plan of 2002, as amended (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of Form 8-K filed on October 27, 2004)
 
   
23.01
  Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
 
   
23.02
  Consent of Buchanan Ingersoll PC (contained in opinion filed as Exhibit 5.01 hereto)
 
   
24.01
  Powers of Attorney (contained herein on the signature page)

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