Illinois Manufacturing M&A Transactions in 2019

Colony Display is a designer, manufacturer, and installer of highly customized fixtures, exhibits, and displays servicing home improvement, retail, and hospitality. Colony Display was founded in 1983 and is based in Elgin, Illinois.

Kinzie Capital Partners
Investor
Private Equity Firm
Chicago, Illinois
www.kinziecp.com

Blaz-Man Gear, Inc. is a Full-Service Custom Gear Manufacturer. Blaz-Man Gear, Inc. provides the best service possible we have manual and CNC machines. Blaz-Man Gear, Inc. has an impressive selection of tooling to do most jobs, consisting of over 1,600 pieces: hobs, shaper cutters, milling cutters, and broaches.

Hy-Tech Machine, Inc.
Company
Manufacturing
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
www.hy-techinc.com

Gear Products and Manufacturing, Inc. is a gear manufacturer whose mission is to be successful by effectively utilizing the philosophies of high-quality manufacturing to produce products to customer specifications and use techniques of reverse engineering for aftermarket gear products. The management team/owners have a combined 60 years of experience in the gear manufacturing industry. Company

Hy-Tech Machine, Inc.
Company
Manufacturing
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
www.hy-techinc.com

Big 3 Precision Products, Inc. is a manufacturer of precision injection blow molds, tooling and metal fabrication products. Big 3 Precision Products was founded in 1970 and is based in Centralia, Illinois.

The Eastern
Company
Machinery
Naugatuck, Connecticut
www.easterncompany.com

TVV Capital
Investor
Private Equity Firm
Nashville, Tennessee
www.tvvcapital.com

Seaga is a manufacturer of Food & Beverage, Industrial, and Water vending solutions. Seaga pairs its high-quality, customized solutions with a rapid prototyping and turnaround process to meet each customer's delivery demands. Seaga was founded in 1987 and is based in Freeport, Illinois.

CID Capital
Investor
Private Equity Firm
Carmel, Indiana
www.cidcap.com

Vanseal Corp. is a manufacturer of the radial lip and hydraulic rubber seals, and mechanical seal components. Vanseal was founded in 1956 and is based in Vandalia, Illinois.

VRC Engineered Solutions
Company
Manufacturing
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
www.vrc-es.com

Navitas System LLC engages in integrated design, technology development, and manufacturing of innovative energy-enabled system solutions and energy storage products for commercial, industrial, and government agency customers. Navitas Systems products range from customized energy storage solutions for motive, idle-reduction and defense-related applications, along with custom renewable energy integrated power systems.

East Penn Manufacturing Co. Inc.
Company
Manufacturing
Lyon Station, Pennsylvania
www.eastpennmanufacturing.com

Big Bolt is a manufacturer of an non-standard fasteners in lengths of up to or greater than 30-inches with a 0.25-inch to 3.5-inch diameter with high-quality assurance. Big Bolt maintains a large stock of material and finished products in order to fulfill emergency orders in market-leading turnaround times. Big Bolt was founded in 1977 and is based in Bloomingdale, Illinois.

Tenex Capital Management
Investor
Private Equity Firm
New York, New York
www.tenexcm.com

Grove Industries, Inc. is a manufacturer of primarily brass machined metal hose fittings and adapters on automatic screw machines. Grove Industries is based in Bensenville, Illinois.

KKSP Precision Machining
Company
Manufacturing
Glendale Heights, Illinois
www.kksp.com

Innovative Components, Inc. is a manufacturer and distributor of plastic clamping knobs, control knobs, metal knobs, wire rope lanyards, thread detectives, and quick release pins such as positive locking pins, ring detent pins, spring loaded plunger pins, wire lock pins, lynch pins, pop pins, selector pins, and weight stack pins.

Essentra
Company
Plastics
Oxford, United Kingdom
www.essentraplc.com

Noise Barriers LLC is a manufacturer of acoustical products. Noise Barriers is based in Libertyville, Illinois.

Sound Seal
Company
Building Materials
Agawam, Massachusetts
www.soundseal.com

Hi-Grade Welding and Manufacturing LLC is a manufacturer of customized high-quality sub-assemblies used in an original equipment manufacturer ('OEMs') final product. The company's manufacturing operations include precision CNC machining, sheet metal fabrication, MIG/tig welding, as well as final assembly for various OEMs. Hi-Grade specializes in short-run projects with limited lead times and production runs that vary from 1 to 10,000 units per project. Hi-Grade Welding & Mfg was founded in 1969 and is based in Schaumburg, Illinois.

H3
Company
Manufacturing
Champaign, Illinois
www.h3mfggroup.com

Capital For Business
Investor
Private Equity Firm
St. Louis, Missouri
www.cfb.com

H3 is a manufacturer specializing in complex, custom weldments and sheet metal fabrication serving the medical, power, and transportation industries. H3 is comprised of Hi-Grade Welding and Manufacturing and HL Precision Manufacturing. H3 was founded in 2019 and is based in Champaign, Illinois.

Aldine Capital Partners
Investor
Mezzanine Finance Firm
Chicago, Illinois
www.aldinecapital.com

Capital For Business
Investor
Private Equity Firm
St. Louis, Missouri
www.cfb.com

HL Precision Manufacturing LLC is a manufacturer of precision CNC machining, sheet metals, certified welding, advanced assembly and finishing of parts, weldments, and assemblies. HL Precision Manufacturing was founded in 1984 and is based in Champaign, Illinois.

H3
Company
Manufacturing
Champaign, Illinois
www.h3mfggroup.com

Duraco is a B2B manufacturer of specialty tapes, which are sold into highly attractive end markets including Point-of-Purchase displays, appliances, transit packaging, construction, signage, and HVAC. Duraco’s application-specific tapes are strong alternatives to mechanical fasteners and traditional glues offering longevity, strength, efficiencies in customer’s assembly operations and breadth of substrates. Duraco’s customer service team will continue to offer their expertise to customers determining which products are ideal for their applications. With a highly diversified customer base, Duraco maintains loyal relationships for over 40 years and is continuously growing with over 6,800 customers in 2018. Duraco was founded in 1947 and is based in Forest Park, Illinois.

OpenGate Capital
Investor
Private Equity Firm
New York, New York
www.opengatecapital.com

Essentra
Company
Plastics
Oxford, United Kingdom
www.essentraplc.com

Charles Industries, LLC is a diversified manufacturing and technology company. Charles supplies a comprehensive line of active and passive, metallic and non-metallic environmental enclosure solutions for communications and power distribution applications.

Amphenol
Company
Electronics
Wallingford, Connecticut
www.amphenol.com