ITT Inc. (ITT) is a diversified manufacturer of highly engineered critical components and customized technology solutions primarily for the transportation, industrial and energy markets.
The company manufactures components that are integral to the operation of equipment, systems and manufacturing processes in these key markets. The company’s products enable functionality for applications where reliability and performance are critically important to the company’s customers and the users of their...
ITT Inc. (ITT) is a diversified manufacturer of highly engineered critical components and customized technology solutions primarily for the transportation, industrial and energy markets.
The company manufactures components that are integral to the operation of equipment, systems and manufacturing processes in these key markets. The company’s products enable functionality for applications where reliability and performance are critically important to the company’s customers and the users of their products. The company operates through three primary segments: Motion Technologies (MT), Industrial Process (IP), and Connect & Control Technologies (CCT).
MT is a global manufacturer of highly engineered brake pads, shock absorbers and damping technologies for the automotive and rail markets. IP is a global manufacturer of industrial pumps, valves, and monitoring and control systems, and provides aftermarket services for the energy, chemical and petrochemical, pharmaceutical, general industrial, marine, mining, pulp and paper, food and beverage, power generation and biopharmaceutical markets. CCT is a global designer and manufacturer of harsh-environment interconnect solutions and critical energy absorption and flow control components, primarily for the aerospace, defense and industrial markets.
Business Model and Strategy
The company’s businesses share a common, repeatable operating model centered on its engineering capabilities. Each business applies its technology and engineering expertise to solve the company’s customers' most pressing challenges. The company’s technological applications foster an ongoing business relationship with its customers, which provides the company with unique insight into its customers' requirements thus enabling the company to develop solutions to better assist the company’s customers achieve their business goals. The company’s technology and customer intimacy together provide opportunities to capture recurring revenue streams, aftermarket opportunities and content on long-lived platforms from original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).
The company creates long-term stakeholder value through the company’s four strategic priorities of customer centricity, operational excellence, effective capital deployment, and sustainability and innovation. The company’s strategy is designed to achieve premier financial performance by combining profitable growth with operational improvements, while keeping the company’s customers at the center of everything the company does.
Primary Businesses and Brands
The company’s brands have a strong international presence across many emerging markets, including China, India, Mexico, Brazil and Saudi Arabia. Below is a list of the key brands in each segment.
MT: ITT Friction Technologies, KONI, GALT., Axtone, and Novitek.
IP: Goulds Pumps, Bornemann, i-ALERT, PRO Services, C'treat, Svanehøj, Rheinhütte Pumpen, Habonim, Hamworthy Pumps, and Engineered Valves.
CCT: Cannon, VEAM, BIW Connector Systems, Aerospace Controls, Enidine, Compact Automation, Neo-Dyn Process Controls, Conoflow, Micro-Mode, and kSARIA.
The company partners with its customers to solve challenging problems and deliver best-in-class solutions.
Segments
Motion Technologies (MT) segment
The Motion Technologies segment is a manufacturer of brake pads, shock absorbers, energy absorption components and damping technologies primarily for the transportation industry, including passenger cars and trucks, light- and heavy-duty commercial and military vehicles, buses and trains. MT consists of the following primary business units: ITT Friction Technologies, KONI, and Axtone. In July 2024, the company sold its Wolverine Advanced Materials (Wolverine) business. Wolverine will continue to act as a third-party supplier of high-performance shims and seals for ITT.
ITT Friction Technologies (Friction)
Friction manufactures a range of brake pads installed as original equipment (OE) on passenger cars (both internal combustion engine vehicles, hybrids and electric vehicles) and light commercial vehicles for a variety of end customers and automotive platforms around the world. OE brake pads are sold directly to OEMs or to Tier-1 brake manufacturers. The company’s OE brake pads are designed to meet customer specifications and environmental regulations, and to satisfy an array of performance standards across multiple geographies. Most automotive OEM platforms (car models) require specific brake pad formulations and have demanding quality, delivery and volume schedules. Friction is a recognized industry leader in the paradigm shift towards new brake pad formulations that are designed, developed and tested specifically for electric vehicles (EVs). Success in developing brake pads for EVs has led Friction to win multiple hybrid and EV platform awards with established and new OEMs.
Friction also manufactures aftermarket brake pads designed for the automotive service and repairs market. This market consists of both OE dealers, also referred to as original equipment service (OES) networks, and independent aftermarket networks. Brake pads sold within the OES network generally match the specifications of an original auto platform OE brake pad and are sold either directly to OEMs or to Tier-1 brake manufacturers, such as Continental AG (Continental), or indirectly through independent distributor channels. The company’s catalog of pads sold in independent aftermarket networks features technology designed to provide a range of braking performance levels.
KONI
The KONI business services four main end markets: railway rolling stock for freight and passenger trains; car and racing; bus, truck and trailer; and defense.
Railway supplies a wide range of equipment for passenger rail, locomotives, freight cars, high speed trains and light rail. Offerings include customized energy absorption solutions, hydraulic shock absorbers (primary, lateral, and inter-car), yaw dampers, springs, visco-elastic and hydraulic buffers, coupler components and crash mitigation equipment. Revenue from the company’s rail damping systems is balanced between OE and aftermarket customers. Sales are made either directly to train manufacturers and train operators carrying out scheduled train maintenance programs or indirectly through distributors.
Car and Racing features performance shock absorbers often using the company’s Frequency Selective Damping (FSD) technology. FSD products generally are used by car and racing enthusiasts who desire to modify their cars for increased handling performance and comfort. KONI aftermarket car shock absorbers are sold around the world, directly to customers and through a distribution network that markets KONI products into specific geographies or customer groups. KONI shock absorbers are also incorporated into new OEM platform designs and sold to Tier-1 shock absorber manufacturers.
Bus, Truck and Trailer, and Defense manufactures hydraulic and hydro-pneumatic shock absorbers for sale to both OEM and aftermarket customers.
Axtone
The Axtone business specializes in impact energy absorption technology and push-pull components for passenger and freight rolling stock in rail, metro and trams and the production of springs applicable across multiple industries such as rail, industrial and defense applications. Axtone develops, manufactures and distributes components designed to meet the rigorous demands of rail transportation of the most demanding customers worldwide. With a commitment to serving a global customer base, the Axtone solutions adhere to international standards with the highest level of quality, performance and durability.
KONI and Axtone are lifetime partners of rail customers, also offering repair and overhauling capabilities for their products.
Other Information
MT has a global manufacturing footprint with advanced automation capabilities, with production facilities in Europe, China, and North America. MT competes in markets primarily served by large and well-established national and global companies. Key competitive drivers within the brake pad business include technical expertise, formulation development capabilities, scale production, product performance, high-quality standards, cost, customer intimacy, reputation and the ability to meet demanding delivery and volume schedules in a limited amount of time. The company has well-established, long-term relationships with the company’s OE and OES brake pad customers based on mutual trust, local proximity and a wide range of cooperative activities, ranging from design, to sampling, prototyping and testing phases of brake pads.
MT's sales to Continental, a supplier to the automotive industry and MT's largest customer, represented 17% of MT's revenue, and approximately 7% of ITT's total revenue in 2024. Automaker requests to use ITT brake pads in their Continental-produced braking systems (calipers) typically account for approximately half of MT's revenue from Continental. These automaker requests are generally formalized through supply agreements signed directly between MT and the automakers. The remainder of MT's sales to Continental is through a long-term agreement to supply Continental with aftermarket parts.
MT is a global leader in rail suspension components, freight coupling devices used in Europe and crash absorption systems. Competitive drivers in MT's rail business include customer intimacy, price, technical expertise and product performance. MT's rail products are considered critical components because of safety requirements and thus they are designed specifically for different train applications and must satisfy strict compliance requirements.
Industrial Process (IP) segment
The Industrial Process segment is an OEM and an aftermarket parts and service provider of industrial pumps, valves, plant optimization and remote monitoring systems and services. IP's products serve an extensive base of customers ranging from large multi-national companies and engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) firms to regional distributors and various other end-users. IP's customers operate in global infrastructure and natural resource markets, such as energy, chemical and petrochemical, pharmaceutical, general industrial, marine, mining, pulp and paper, food and beverage, power generation and biopharmaceutical. IP's marketplace-recognized brands include Goulds Pumps, Bornemann, Rheinhütte Pumpen, Engineered Valves, PRO Services, C'treat, i-ALERT, and Habonim.
In January 2024, the company acquired Svanehøj Group A/S (Svanehøj) incorporating the Svanehøj and Hamworthy Pumps brand pumps into IP's portfolio. Svanehøj is a Denmark-based supplier of pumps and related aftermarket services with leading positions in cryogenic applications for the marine sector. Svanehøj has operations in Denmark, Singapore, and France. Svanehøj Tank Control Systems develops and produces technologies that enhance the safety of liquified natural gas (LNG), cryogenic and refrigerated storage – both onshore and offshore.
Industrial Pumps
Industrial pumps are used by a wide array of customers and applications primarily in the chemical, energy, marine, mining, general industrial, pharmaceutical and power generation markets. IP designs and manufactures configured-to-order and standards-based industrial pumps that are highly engineered and customized to customer needs. These products include a broad portfolio of centrifugal and twin-screw positive displacement pumps that meet the following industry-recognized standards: American Petroleum Institute (API), American National Standards Institute (ANSI), ATmosphere EXplosible, European Directive 2014/34/EC (ATEX), IEC standards (IECEx) and International Organization for Standardization (ISO). The company’s project pumps are generally part of larger and more complex capital projects, have longer lead times than baseline pumps and are generally managed by EPC firms.
Valves
Valves are manufactured to handle a wide variety of process conditions and solve unique challenges in the biopharmaceutical, chemical, mining, power generation, pulp and paper, and general industrial markets. The company’s portfolio of valve products includes knife-gate valves, ball valves, hygienic and industrial diaphragm valves, and valve actuators, marketed under the brand names EnviZion, Cam-Line, Cam-Tite, Dia-Flo, Fabri-Valve, Pure-Flo, Skotch, and Habonim. Also included within the company’s portfolio is the Integrated Sensing Platform (ISP), which is a next-generation linear position sensing technology for EnviZion and Pure-Flo hygienic diaphragm valves, developed specifically for the toughest applications in the biopharmaceutical and sanitary industries.
Aftermarket
The company’s aftermarket solutions, which represented 43% of IP's revenue in 2024, provide customers with replacement parts, services and plant optimization solutions that reduce total cost of ownership of pumps and rotating equipment, and cryogenic applications for the marine sector. In addition to providing standard repairs, IP also develops engineered solutions for specific customer process issues. Examples include innovative technologies like PumpSmart Control & Protection Technology and i-ALERT Equipment Health Monitoring Devices, which remotely control and monitor pumps and other rotating equipment in an industrial environment.
Other Information
IP has a global manufacturing footprint with significant operations in the United States, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Germany, Denmark, and Singapore. IP markets its products via a global and diversified sales channel structure. Sales to independent distributors, who service end-users, account for approximately one-third of IP's revenue. The company also sells directly to end-users through the company’s customer-focused direct sales and service organization. In addition, the company has focused channels dedicated to supporting EPC firms as their needs are often distinct from those of distribution and end-user customers.
Connect & Control Technologies (CCT) segment
The Connect & Control Technologies segment designs and manufactures a range of highly-engineered connectors, cable assemblies, and specialized products for critical applications supporting various markets including aerospace and defense, industrial, transportation (including EVs), medical and energy. CCT’s products are often components on long-lived platforms that generate recurring aftermarket and replacement opportunities. CCT has organized its business around product offerings and end-user markets, with dedicated teams specializing in solutions for their specific markets, providing focused customer support and expertise.
Connector Products
The connector product portfolio includes high-performance connectors of the following types: Circular, Rectangular, Radio Frequency, Fiber Optic, D-sub Miniature and Micro-Miniature. Brands include Cannon, VEAM, Micro-Mode, and BIW Connector Systems, which deliver solutions to enable the transfer of data, signals and power for various end-user markets including aerospace, defense, industrial, transportation, medical and energy. These brands are known for high-performance, high-reliability solutions which withstand high temperatures and pressure and are resistant to corrosive environments. In certain harsh environment markets, the company’s connector products are considered market leaders because of the company’s technological capabilities, cost performance and global footprint.
Products for the commercial aerospace and defense markets include industry standards-based connectors and late-stage customized solutions. These products are designed to withstand the extreme conditions in harsh environments that are typical in aviation and military applications where reliability and safety are critical factors.
Products for the industrial markets include connectors for industrial production and transportation equipment, industrial electronics and instruments, and other industrial and medical applications. Products for the transportation markets include connectors for electric vehicle charging station applications, passenger rail and heavy-duty vehicles.
Products for the energy markets include connectors that provide power for electric submersible pumps in oil wells and reservoir monitoring instruments. Specific product applications include electrical power penetrators for wellheads, packers and pods that are able to accommodate various sizes and provide for multiple sealing strategies and ratings.
Cable Assembly Products
In September 2024, ITT acquired kSARIA Parent, Inc. (kSARIA), a leading producer and supplier of mission-critical connectivity solutions for the defense and aerospace end markets. kSARIA produces highly engineered cable assemblies for avionics, sensors, communications and networking applications that are highly complementary to ITT’s existing connector portfolio.
Control Products
The control product portfolio consists of highly engineered actuation, flow control, energy absorption, environmental control, and composite component solutions for the aerospace, defense and industrial markets.
Control products for the aerospace and defense markets include actuators, valves, pumps and switches for flow control applications, rate controls, seat recline locks and elastomer isolators for aircraft interiors, elastomeric bearings for rotorcraft vibration isolation, heaters, hoses, and composite ducting for environmental control systems. Brands include Aerospace Controls and Enidine.
Control products for the industrial markets include shock absorbers, wire ropes and actuators for factory and warehouse automation, regulators and switches for process control applications, seismic isolators and large bore shocks for protection of critical infrastructure, and regulators for natural gas vehicles. Brands include Enidine, Compact Automation, Turn-Act, Neo-Dyn and Conoflow.
Other Information
CCT has a global production footprint, including facilities in the United States, Mexico, Germany, Italy, China and Japan, which provide close geographic proximity to key customers. CCT products are sold directly and indirectly through numerous channels, including distributors. CCT has long-lasting relationships with distributors, as many have been selling certain CCT products for decades. Sales to distributors represented approximately 30% of CCT's 2024 revenue.
Regulations
The company is subject to stringent federal, state, local, and foreign environmental laws and regulations concerning air emissions, water discharges and waste disposal. In the U.S., these include, but are not limited to, the Federal Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Resource, Conservation and Recovery Act, and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act.
History
ITT Inc. was founded in 1920. The company was incorporated in 1920.
