Acquisition Strategy

Growth through acquisitions is an important element of Kaman’s corporate strategy. We evaluate businesses quickly and confidentially. If you own a business and are interested in considering a sale of your business to Kaman, or you represent an owner of a business interested in selling to Kaman, please contact us.

We seek to add profitable businesses with any of the following products or skill-sets:

• Large, complex aerostructure assemblies
• Metallic and/or composite aerostructure component manufacturing
• Composites technology and automation
• Aerostructure engineering design capability
• Self lubricated aerospace bearing technologies
• Complex machining of titanium aerostructures
• Tooling design and manufacturing, including automation
• High speed aluminum machining
• Hot forming of titanium
• Stretch forming
• Unmanned aircraft systems
• High speed drive shaft and coupling technologies
• Helicopter blade manufacturing
• Helicopter MRO operations
• Measuring instruments/sensors

We are interested in businesses: (i) with profitable sales in the $30 million to $300 million range; (ii) having strong management teams who are interested in continuing to work with the business as part of Kaman; and (iii) that possess appropriate quality approvals and business systems. Geographically, we have interest in businesses located in North or South America, Europe or Asia.