M&A Deal Summary

ATS Acquires Comecer

On December 19, 2018, ATS acquired machinery company Comecer for 113M EUR

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is ATS’s 2nd transaction in the Machinery sector.
  • This is ATS’s 2nd largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is ATS’s 1st transaction in Rwanda.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2018-12-19
Target Comecer
Sector Machinery
Buyer(s) ATS
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 113M EUR

Target

Comecer

Castel Bolognese, Rwanda
Comecer S.p.A. is a provider in the design, engineering, manufacture, and servicing of advanced aseptic containment and processing systems for the nuclear medicine and pharmaceutical industries. Comecer S.p.A. was founded in 1974 and is based in Castel Bolognese, Italy.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

ATS

Cambridge, Ontario, Canada

Category Company
Founded 1978
Sector Engineering
Employees7,500
Revenue 2.5B CAD (2025)
DESCRIPTION
Automation Tooling Systems facility in Rock Hill, South Carolina.
Automation Tooling Systems facility in Rock Hill, South Carolina.

ATS is a designer, builder and installer of manufacturing solutions. ATS uses its knowledge and global capabilities to serve the sophisticated automation systems' needs of multinational customers in industries such as consumer products & electronics, energy, life sciences and transportation. ATS was incorporated in 1978 and is based in Cambridge, Ontario.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 4 of 15
Sector: Machinery M&A 2 of 2
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 2 of 13
Country: Rwanda M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2018 M&A 2 of 2
Size (of disclosed) 2 of 5
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2018-12-06 Transformix- Intellectual Property Assets

Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Transformix's Intellectual property assets for linking and synchronizing the movements of devices and tooling to enable faster assembly systems.

Buy CA$10M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2019-09-19 iXLOG

Hofheim am Taunus, Germany

iXLOG is an IT consulting and service provider specializing in business process optimization, business intelligence, and analytics, primarily for large and medium-sized industrial manufacturing customers. iXLOG was founded in 1999 and is based in Hofheim am Taunus, Germany.

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