Kaman Corporation

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Kaman Corporation

Company type	Private
Traded as	NYSE: KAMN
Industry	Aerospace industry, medical industry, defense industry
Founded	December 1945
Founder	Charles Kaman
Headquarters	Bloomfield, Connecticut , United States
Number of locations	241 offices, 5 distribution facilities
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Ian K. Walsh (Chairman, President & CEO)
Revenue	US$1.59 billion (FY 2012)
Operating income	US$92.8 million (FY 2012)
Net income	US$55.0 million (FY 2012)
Total assets	US$1.1 billion (FY 2012)
Total equity	US$42.1 billion (FY 2012)
Owner	Arcline Investment Management
Number of employees	5,007
Divisions	Bal Seal Engineering EXTEX Engineered Products GRW Kaman Aerospace Jacksonville Kaman Air Vehicles Kaman Composites Kaman Fuzing Kaman Measuring Kamatics RWG
Website	kaman.com
Footnotes / references [1]

Kaman Corporation /kəˈmɑːn/ is an American aerospace company, with headquarters in Bloomfield, Connecticut. It was founded in 1945 by Charles Kaman. During the first ten years the company operated exclusively as a designer and manufacturer of several helicopters that set world records and achieved many aviation firsts.

In 1956, Kaman began to diversify^[2] as an aerospace subcontractor of McDonnell Douglas, Grumman, and others. In the mid-1960s Kaman diversified outside of the aerospace industry, using the expertise Kaman had gained in composite materials and the end of the need for skilled woodworkers to craft wooden rotor blades. Charles Kaman, a guitarist as well as an aerospace pioneer, worked with his engineers and other musicians to create the round-backed, composite-body Ovation guitar, which led to the eventual creation of Kaman Music (now KMCMusicorp). Kaman Music was an independent distributor of musical instruments and accessories, and a major producer of guitars and guitar parts and accessories.