KEWAUNEE SCIENTIFIC CORP

Kewaunee Scientific Corporation designs, manufactures, and installs furniture and infrastructure products for laboratories, healthcare facilities, and technical environments. The company's product range includes steel and wood casework, fume hoods, adaptable modular systems, moveable workstations, stand-alone benches, biological safety cabinets, and epoxy resin work surfaces and sinks. Through its acquisition of Nu Aire, Inc., Kewaunee Scientific also offers biological safety cabinets, CO2 incubators, ultralow freezers, and other essential laboratory products. Kewaunee Scientific's International subsidiaries provide additional services such as facility design, detailed engineering construction, and project management, covering the entire process from planning to testing and commissioning of laboratories. The company sells its products primarily through purchase orders and contracts directly from customers or via its dealers, its subsidiaries in Singapore and India, and a national distributor. Its customer base includes pharmaceutical, biotechnology, industrial, chemical, and commercial research laboratories, educational institutions, healthcare institutions, governmental entities, and manufacturing facilities. The markets in which Kewaunee Scientific operates are highly competitive, with much of the business involving competitive public bidding. The primary raw materials used in its products are cold-rolled carbon and stainless steel, hardwood lumber and plywood, paint, chemicals, resins, hardware, plumbing, and electrical fittings, which are sourced from multiple suppliers.