No. KCF Technologies is a private company that describes itself as employee-owned. In June 2022 Graham Partners Growth announced a minority growth equity investment in the company.
KCF Technologies sells machine health monitoring for industrial plants. It was established in November 2000 at Penn State University by Professor Gary Koopmann, Dr. Weicheng Chen and Dr. Jeremy Frank, and is based in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania.
Plants install KCF's wireless sensors on equipment, send the data to KCF's analytics software, and can add KCF analysts who check fault alerts and help find root causes. KCF says it serves sectors including automotive, chemicals, food and beverage, metals, mining, oil and gas, and utilities.
KCF says customers have saved more than $4 billion and prevented 85,000 hours of downtime. KCF also says customers achieve at least an 8x return on investment within the first year.
Products
SMARTsensing Suite
Wireless vibration and condition monitoring sensors, including a high definition vibration sensor, an IoT hub and piezo sensing.
SMARTdiagnostics
Software that provides continuous real-time data and AI-driven fault detection to identify developing machine issues early, according to KCF.
SENTRYsolutions
A service tier with human-validated fault callouts and a dedicated SENTRYservices analyst assigned to the customer's account.
Funding and ownership history
Date
Event
Amount
Valuation
Source
Jun 22, 2022
Minority growth investment by Graham Partners Growth
Valuations marked "press report" come from the named outlet, not from KCF Technologies.
Where KCF Technologies is deployed
US Farathane, Georgetown, Texas, and other injection molding plants, United States: US Farathane went live with KCF SMARTdiagnostics across its injection molding facilities in 2025, including Georgetown, Texas. production · Vendor-reported · Jun 2026
SABIC, Bay St. Louis, United States: KCF's SMARTdiagnostics flagged rising vibration on an extruder motor at SABIC's Bay St. Louis plant; the cause was traced to a clogged filter and a product change. production · Vendor-reported · Aug 2025
New Enterprise Stone & Lime: New Enterprise Stone & Lime expanded KCF monitoring equipment after pilots at one aggregate plant and one asphalt plant. production · Vendor-reported · Not dated
Altoona Water Authority, Altoona, PA, United States: During a 30-day pilot, KCF's SMARTdiagnostics caught an over-greased dryer motor bearing at Altoona Water Authority's wastewater facility. pilot · Vendor-reported · Not dated
Anchor Glass, United States: Anchor Glass uses KCF's predictive maintenance platform, with sensors on critical equipment, across its five glass container facilities. production · Vendor-reported · Not dated
Nabors, Drilling rigs in South and West Texas, United States: Nabors ran a 5-month trial of KCF vibration sensors on drilling rig mud pumps: 96 sensors on 12 mud pumps across 4 rigs in Texas. pilot · Vendor-reported · Not dated
Georgia-Pacific: Georgia-Pacific has deployed 62,000 sensors across more than 100 sites since 2017 and uses KCF's remote monitoring tools with its own support center. production · Vendor-reported · Not dated
Talen Energy, Susquehanna nuclear station, Berwick, PA, United States: Talen Energy's Susquehanna nuclear station deployed KCF wireless vibration, ultrasonic and temperature sensors to detect steam valve leaks and thermal losses. production · Vendor-reported · Not dated
RYAM, Jessup facility: RYAM piloted KCF sensors at one facility in early 2021 and expanded to all sites; its Jessup facility has approximately 2,600 sensors on about 95% of critical machinery. production · Vendor-reported · Not dated
All deployments · Only projects with a named customer and a public source are listed.
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Checked October 1, 2026 · Written from KCF Technologies's own site and announcements; valuations from named press reports · kcftech.com · Spotted an error? Tell us.
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