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Woodward, Inc. Description

Woodward, Inc. designs, manufactures, and services energy control and optimization solutions for the aerospace and energy markets worldwide. Its Aerospace segment provides pumps, valves, fuel nozzles, metering units, cockpit controls, actuators, motors, and sensors for use in commercial and military fixed-wing aircraft, and rotorcraft, as well as weapons and defense systems. This segment also provides aftermarket repair, overhaul, and other services to commercial airlines, turbine original equipment manufacturer (OEM) repair facilities, military depots, third party repair shops, and end users. It sells its products to OEMs and tier-one prime contractors; and through aftermarket sales of components as provisioning spares or replacements. The company's Energy segment designs, produces, and services systems and products for the management of fuel, air, fluids, gases, electricity, and motion. Its products include power converters, actuators, valves, pumps, injectors, solenoids, ignition systems, governors, electronics, and devices that measure, communicate, and protect low and medium voltage electrical distribution systems for use in industrial gas turbines, aeroderivative turbines, reciprocating engines, electrical grids, wind turbines, and compressors. This segment sells its products through aftermarket or replacement sales to OEMs and tier-one prime contractors; and provides other related services to OEM customers, as well as directly to end users or distributors. Woodward, Inc was founded in 1870 and is headquartered in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Sector: Industrials
Industry: Aerospace & Defense
Keywords: Aerospace Electronics Electricity Supply Chain Management Turbines Actuator Distribution Systems Outsourcing Gas Turbine Pump Weapons Energy Market Wind Turbine Defense Systems Injector Prime Contractor Prime Contractors Industrial Gas Ignition System Provisioning Electrical Grid Ignition Systems Optimization Solution Industrial Gas Turbine Optimization Solutions Energy Control Original Equipment Manufacturer Electrical Distribution Systems