K-Tron is a recognized leader in the design, production, marketing and servicing of material handling equipment and systems. We serve many different industrial markets through two separate business lines, one of which (our Process Group) focuses primarily on feeding and pneumatic conveying equipment while the other (our Size Reduction Group) concentrates on size reduction equipment, conveying systems and screening equipment. Our strategy is simple: to provide our customers with the equipment, engineered solutions and services they need to be successful in their businesses.

Our Process Group does business under two main brands: K-Tron Feeders and K-Tron Premier. For many years, the K-Tron Feeders brand has been the global leader in high-quality feeders for the handling of bulk solids in a wide variety of manufacturing processes. Our feeders control the flow of materials into those processes which then transform the materials into various end products. Our pneumatic conveying equipment, marketed and sold under the K-Tron Premier brand, is used in engineered systems such as rail car and truck unloading and for storage-to-production line transfer systems. The combination of our K-Tron Feeders brand and our K-Tron Premier brand within our Process Group enables us to offer our customers integrated material handling systems with engineering, manufacturing, commissioning and after-sale services from a single source, something that is not widely available today. The plastics, food, chemical and pharmaceutical industries are the major markets served by our Process Group. This Group has an active research and development program which combines our expertise in weighing and control technologies with our knowledge of material handling to develop innovative, leading-edge products. Our Process Group also serves the domestic plastics compounding and injection molding markets in China through our Wuxi K-Tron Colormax subsidiary, using a third brand name, K-Tron Colormax. Wuxi K-Tron Colormax designs, manufactures and markets feeders, pneumatic conveying components and other equipment in China that are sold in local currency to the Chinese domestic plastics industry. The Process Group’s customers include many of the Fortune Global 500 industrial companies as well as numerous other multinational, regional and local processors. With manufacturing facilities in the United States, Switzerland and China, sales and service offices in five countries and independent representatives in more than 50 countries, the K-Tron Process Group provides worldwide support to its customers.

Our Size Reduction Group consists of three companies that design, produce, market and sell size reduction, conveying, screening and related equipment and systems to the different markets that each serves. Their brands are synonymous with their names: Pennsylvania Crusher, Gundlach and Jeffrey Rader. Pennsylvania Crusher is the leading U.S. manufacturer of size reduction equipment that is sold mainly to electric utility companies to crush coal before it is used as fuel in the steam furnaces of coal-fired power plants. Gundlach is a leading U.S. manufacturer of size reduction equipment used by coal mining companies to crush coal at the mine mouth and the preparation plant. Jeffrey Rader is the new brand name for the combined product lines of our Jeffrey Specialty Equipment Corporation and Rader Companies, Inc. subsidiaries whose operations were integrated in Jeffrey’s plant in Woodruff, South Carolina during 2008. These two subsidiaries were formally merged on January 1, 2009. Jeffrey Rader is a leading U.S. supplier of wood hogs and other size reduction equipment for the resizing of wood chips, of screening equipment, conveying systems and storage/reclaim systems for pulp and paper mills in North America, and of truck dumping, conveying and other material handling equipment for the biomass energy generation industry in North America and Europe. A majority of our Size Reduction Group’s business comes from replacement part sales, since each brand within the Group has a large installed base of long-lived equipment.

K-Tron’s vision is to continue to execute our strategy and expand our position as one of the world’s leading process equipment companies. The organic growth of our two existing business lines, fueled by innovative new products and exemplary service to our customers, is one way to meet that goal. A second way is through diversification into complementary products and new markets such as the domestic feeder market in China and by acquisition of other market leaders like Gundlach (March 2006), Premier Pneumatics, Inc. (October 2006) and Rader (September 2007) that will broaden our addressed industries and customer base. We are committed to both approaches in our quest to achieve our vision and create shareholder value

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