Two Kennametal leaders named STEP Ahead Award winners

Kennametal Inc., Pittsburgh, has announced that two of its leaders, Amy Morissette and Luanne Overstreet, will be among a group receiving accolades at the Women in Manufacturing STEP Ahead Awards. Presented by The Manufacturing Institute, the awards celebrate women making an impact in science, technology, engineering, and production careers.

Morissette, Kennametal’s global environmental health and safety manager for the Infrastructure business segment, has helped the company achieve a 52 percent year-over-year improvement in safety performance, as well as more than 2.5 million safe work hours.

As supply chain process manager, Overstreet has facilitated the standardization of global processes. She has helped the company implement a major systems, applications, and products platform upgrade and enabled the successful integration of warehouse and logistics systems through several acquisitions.