Machinery
Who acquires Machinery companies
163 distinct acquirers across 219 recorded transactions, 2014 to 2026. Every buyer below has completed at least one acquisition in this sector.
Top 10 acquirers of Machinery companies
Ranked by number of acquisitions recorded in this sector, with the year of each buyer's latest one. A buyer that has done this more than once has a thesis, and a thesis is what makes an approach worth making.
| Acquirer | Deals here | Last deal |
|---|---|---|
| JBT | 9 | 2021 |
| IR | 8 | 2023 |
| Columbus McKinnon | 4 | 2026 |
| Toro | 4 | 2025 |
| AGI | 4 | 2018 |
| Interpump Group | 4 | 2017 |
| CECO Environmental | 3 | 2026 |
| Alamo Group | 3 | 2026 |
| Graco | 3 | 2024 |
| Hillenbrand | 3 | 2022 |
Counted from 219 recorded transactions, 2014 to 2026. Name variants of the same buyer (Inc, Corporation, Ltd) are counted together.
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Recorded transactions
| Target | Acquirer | Date | Value | EV/EBITDA | EV/Revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cat Pumps Corporation | Franklin Electric Co. | 2026-09-04 | $350m | 7.8x | 3.0x |
| Chart Industries | Baker Hughes Company | 2026-07-16 | n/d | n/d | n/d |
| Thermon Group Holdings | CECO Environmental Corp. | 2026-06-01 | n/d | n/d | n/d |
| Columbus McKinnon U.S. power chain hoist and chain manufacturing operations | Star Hoist Intermediate | 2026-03-04 | $210m | n/d | n/d |
| SPX FLOW | ITT Inc. | 2026-03-02 | $4.8bn | n/d | n/d |
| I.T.S. Industrial Tecno-logic Solutions Ltd. | T3 Defense Inc. | 2026-02-16 | n/d | n/d | n/d |
| Hillenbrand | Lone Star Funds | 2026-02-10 | $3.8bn | n/d | n/d |
| Kito Crosby Limited | Columbus McKinnon Corporation | 2026-02-03 | $2.7bn | n/d | n/d |
| Diligent Robotics | Serve Robotics Inc. | 2026-01-27 | $24m | n/d | n/d |
| Petersen Industries | ALAMO GROUP INC | 2026-01-26 | $167m | n/d | 2.2x |
| Husky Technologies Limited | CompoSecure | 2026-01-12 | n/d | n/d | n/d |
| Dana Off-Highway Drive & Motion Systems business | Allison Transmission Holdings | 2026-01-01 | $2.7bn | n/d | n/d |
| Matthews Automation Solutions | Duravant LLC | 2025-12-31 | $232m | n/d | 3.2x |
| Spyce Food Co. | Wonder Group | 2025-12-29 | $186m | n/d | n/d |
| Tornado Infrastructure Equipment Ltd. | The Toro Company | 2025-12-08 | n/d | n/d | n/d |
| Scranton Manufacturing Company LLC | Federal Signal Corporation | 2025-11-25 | $426m | n/d | n/d |
| Diamond Power International | Andritz AG | 2025-07-31 | $177m | n/d | n/d |
| TerraSource Holdings | Astec Industries | 2025-07-01 | $245m | n/d | n/d |
| Continental Disc Corporation | Baker Hughes | 2025-06-16 | $540m | n/d | n/d |
| NanoScience | Quantum Design | 2025-06-10 | $92m | n/d | n/d |
| CECO Global Pump Solutions business | May River Capital | 2025-03-31 | $110m | n/d | n/d |
| Munters - FoodTech Equipment Operations | Grain & Protein Technologies | 2025-02-09 | $110m | n/d | n/d |
| Marel hf. | JBT Marel Corporation | 2025-01-02 | n/d | n/d | n/d |
| Sentronics Metrology | Nova | 2024-11-27 | $60m | n/d | n/d |
| Nu Aire | Kewaunee | 2024-11-01 | $55m | n/d | n/d |
| Sempre | Oxford Metrics | 2024-10-11 | $8m | n/d | n/d |
| Carrier Commercial Refrigeration | Haier | 2024-10-02 | $775m | n/d | n/d |
| Corob | Graco | 2024-09-26 | $293m | n/d | n/d |
| Manitex International | Tadano | 2024-09-13 | $223m | 7.2x | 0.8x |
| AGCO - Grain & Protein Division | American Industrial Partners (PE) | 2024-07-25 | $700m | n/d | n/d |
| Veo Robotics | Symbotic | 2024-07-19 | $9m | n/d | n/d |
| Imbera and Torrey | Mill Point Capital (PE) | 2024-07-17 | $477m | n/d | n/d |
| Desktop Metal | Nano Dimension | 2024-07-03 | $183m | n/d | 1.0x |
| MA micro automation | Hitachi | 2024-04-26 | $81m | n/d | n/d |
| Katsa | Twin Disc | 2024-03-06 | $24m | n/d | 0.6x |
| Ingenia | SPX Technologies | 2024-02-07 | $308m | n/d | n/d |
| AMI | ENPRO Services | 2023-12-28 | $210m | n/d | n/d |
| GMM Group | Biesse | 2023-12-22 | $97m | 6.9x | 0.7x |
| DryAir | Exchange Income Corporation | 2023-10-05 | $60m | n/d | n/d |
| Burris Equipment | Alta Equipment Group | 2023-09-28 | $14m | n/d | n/d |
| AlterG | Lifeward | 2023-08-08 | $19m | n/d | 1.0x |
| Roots | IR | 2023-06-12 | $300m | n/d | 2.6x |
| Procon | Investindustrial (PE) | 2023-02-02 | $75m | n/d | 2.2x |
| Fori Automation | Lincoln Electric | 2022-10-14 | $427m | n/d | n/d |
| Dosatron | IR | 2022-10-03 | $90m | n/d | n/d |
| GE Additive - KARNO | Hyliion | 2022-08-25 | $37m | n/d | n/d |
| Astro Machine | AstroNova | 2022-08-09 | $17m | n/d | n/d |
| CyberOptics | Nordson | 2022-08-08 | $300m | 15.0x | 3.2x |
| Tractel | Alimak Group | 2022-08-02 | $563m | n/d | n/d |
| Linxis Group | Hillenbrand | 2022-07-20 | $645m | n/d | n/d |
| OLBRICH | Matthews International | 2022-06-21 | $45m | n/d | n/d |
| Fronti Fabrications | Chart Industries | 2022-05-31 | $20m | n/d | n/d |
| Duplomatic | Daikin | 2022-04-28 | $248m | n/d | 1.5x |
| Salford Group | Linamar | 2022-04-27 | $198m | n/d | n/d |
| Wenger | Marel | 2022-04-27 | $540m | n/d | n/d |
| RE2 | Palladyne AI | 2022-03-28 | $100m | n/d | n/d |
| The Intimidator Group | Toro | 2022-01-14 | $400m | n/d | 2.0x |
| Quatro Air technologies | Absolent Air Care Group | 2021-11-15 | $17m | n/d | 1.4x |
| Tuthill Pump Group | IR | 2021-11-02 | $85m | n/d | n/d |
| Urtasun | JBT | 2021-11-02 | $40m | n/d | n/d |
| Air Dimensions | IR | 2021-10-28 | $71m | n/d | n/d |
| Excel Industries | Stanley Black & Decker | 2021-09-13 | $375m | n/d | n/d |
| Balemaster | Kadant | 2021-08-23 | $54m | n/d | 2.5x |
| IEC Electronics | Creation Technologies | 2021-08-12 | $242m | 22.0x | 1.3x |
| ExOne | Desktop Metal | 2021-08-11 | $575m | n/d | 9.7x |
| Nuevopak | IPG | 2021-06-30 | $44m | n/d | n/d |
| Seepex | IR | 2021-06-21 | $486m | n/d | 2.7x |
| DGI Trading | North American Construction | 2021-06-09 | $24m | n/d | n/d |
| Gal‑Shvav Group | FIMI Opportunity Funds (PE) | 2021-05-20 | $100m | n/d | n/d |
| AMECO | One Equity Partners (PE) | 2021-05-04 | $73m | n/d | n/d |
| Philadelphia Mixing Solutions | SPX FLOW | 2021-04-28 | $65m | n/d | n/d |
| Precise Automation | Azenta | 2021-04-26 | $70m | n/d | 4.1x |
| Nordco | Wabtec | 2021-03-23 | $400m | n/d | n/d |
| Structural Composites Industries | Luxfer Group Ltd. | 2021-03-15 | $20m | n/d | n/d |
| Dorner Mfg. Corp. | Columbus McKinnon | 2021-03-01 | $485m | n/d | n/d |
| L3 Harris Technologies | RENK | 2021-03-01 | $400m | n/d | 1.7x |
| Sdiptech AB - Swedish Elevator Business | TK Elevator | 2021-02-19 | $28m | 15.5x | 0.8x |
| ABEL Pumps LP | IDEX | 2021-01-11 | $104m | n/d | 3.0x |
| Ham-Let (Israel-Canada) Ltd. | Ultra Clean Holdings | 2020-12-16 | $348m | n/d | n/d |
| Tuthill Vacuum and Blower Systems | IR | 2020-12-07 | $184m | n/d | 3.1x |
| Applied Compression Systems Ltd. | Xebec | 2020-09-01 | $5m | n/d | 0.6x |
| Briggs & Stratton | KPS Capital Partners (PE) | 2020-07-20 | $550m | n/d | 0.3x |
| Delta Separations | Gibraltar Industries | 2020-02-13 | $50m | n/d | 1.1x |
| Nortech Packaging | IPG | 2020-02-12 | $37m | 6.1x | 1.8x |
| Machinery Group Oy | Boreo | 2020-02-03 | $21m | n/d | 0.4x |
| Venture Products | Toro | 2020-01-21 | $168m | n/d | 1.7x |
| Cherry's Industrial Equipment Corp. | Arcosa | 2019-12-12 | $298m | 8.1x | 1.7x |
| ENTREC Corp. - Crane Business | Sterling Crane | 2019-12-12 | $21m | n/d | n/d |
| Fairbanks Morse Defense | Arcline Investment Management (PE) | 2019-12-12 | $450m | n/d | n/d |
| AutoGuide Mobile Robots | Teradyne | 2019-10-21 | $165m | n/d | n/d |
| BEKA Lubrication | Timken | 2019-09-16 | $165m | n/d | n/d |
| Morbark LLC | Alamo Group | 2019-09-11 | $352m | n/d | 1.5x |
| Swiss Tool Systems AG | RBC Bearings | 2019-08-15 | $34m | n/d | n/d |
| Proseal UK Ltd. | JBT | 2019-04-29 | $339m | n/d | n/d |
| Terex Corp. - Mobile Cranes Business | Tadano | 2019-02-22 | $215m | n/d | n/d |
| Ditch Witch | Toro | 2019-02-15 | $700m | n/d | 1.0x |
| Mediamark Proprietary Ltd. | Kagiso Media | 2019-02-11 | $2m | n/d | n/d |
| CIRCOR International | RelaDyne | 2019-01-28 | $85m | n/d | n/d |
| UK Platforms Ltd. | Nationwide Platforms Ltd. | 2019-01-14 | $93m | n/d | n/d |
| Comecer S.p.A. | ATS | 2018-12-19 | $127m | n/d | 1.7x |
| Genesis Systems Group LLC | IPG Photonics | 2018-11-05 | $115m | n/d | n/d |
| Nippon Oil Pump | Trustar Capital (PE) | 2018-11-01 | $96m | n/d | n/d |
| Luwa Air Engineering AG | Nederman | 2018-10-17 | $30m | n/d | 0.4x |
| MEGTEC Systems | Durr | 2018-10-08 | $124m | n/d | n/d |
| Transnorm Beteiligungen GmbH | Honeywell | 2018-10-01 | $479m | n/d | n/d |
| Olivotto Ferrè S.p.A. | China Glass Holdings | 2018-09-27 | $24m | n/d | n/d |
| Gimatic Srl | Barnes Group | 2018-09-20 | $417m | n/d | n/d |
| Brooks Automation | Atlas Copco | 2018-08-27 | $675m | n/d | 3.5x |
| Custom Fluidpower Pty Ltd. | Helios Technologies | 2018-08-06 | $26m | n/d | 0.6x |
| Mecatherm SA | Unigrains (PE) | 2018-07-31 | $135m | 10.0x | n/d |
| FTNON | JBT | 2018-07-12 | $36m | n/d | n/d |
| Sigma Industries | NanoXplore | 2018-07-03 | $19m | n/d | n/d |
| Central Conveyor Co. Inc. | U.S. Tsubaki Holdings | 2018-06-15 | $140m | n/d | n/d |
| Quickthree Solutions | SmartSand | 2018-06-04 | $43m | n/d | n/d |
| Hardinge | Privet Fund (PE) | 2018-05-28 | $245m | n/d | n/d |
| BlueCrest | Platinum Equity (PE) | 2018-04-30 | $361m | n/d | n/d |
| Piab | Patricia Industries (PE) | 2018-04-30 | $823m | n/d | 5.8x |
| Precision Technology Supplies Ltd. | Trifast | 2018-04-05 | $13m | n/d | 1.7x |
| Lasergen | Agilent | 2018-04-03 | $105m | n/d | n/d |
| Milltec Machinery | AGI | 2018-03-28 | $110m | n/d | n/d |
| Faster S.p.A. | Helios Technologies | 2018-02-19 | $485m | n/d | 4.1x |
| Runtech Systems Oy | IR | 2018-02-14 | $93m | n/d | n/d |
| Robco Engineering | Erhvervsinvest (PE) | 2018-02-01 | $10m | n/d | n/d |
| Key Technology | Duravant | 2018-01-25 | $175m | 15.9x | 1.3x |
| FCX Performance | Applied Industrial Technologies | 2018-01-09 | $768m | n/d | n/d |
| JWC Environmental LLC | Sulzer | 2017-12-21 | $215m | n/d | n/d |
| RexCon LLC | Astec Industries | 2017-10-02 | $26m | n/d | n/d |
| Hudson Products Corp. | Chart Industries | 2017-09-21 | $410m | n/d | n/d |
| Blue River Technology | Deere | 2017-09-06 | $305m | n/d | n/d |
| Mirage Machines Ltd. | Enerpac Tool Group | 2017-08-16 | $16m | n/d | n/d |
| R.P.M. Tech | Alamo Group | 2017-08-08 | $13m | n/d | 0.7x |
| Air Liquide Welding SA | Lincoln Electric | 2017-07-31 | $130m | n/d | n/d |
| PLF International Ltd. | JBT | 2017-07-31 | $43m | n/d | n/d |
| Cal-Weld | Ichor | 2017-07-27 | $50m | n/d | n/d |
| Stewart & Stevenson LLC | Kirby | 2017-06-13 | $710m | n/d | n/d |
| KOP Surface Products Pte Ltd. | The Weir Group | 2017-06-11 | $114m | n/d | n/d |
| Rotary Compression Technologies | IR | 2017-06-07 | $20m | n/d | n/d |
| Ambrell Corp. | inTEST | 2017-05-24 | $22m | n/d | n/d |
| CEC Controls Co. Inc. | John Wood Group | 2017-05-24 | $44m | n/d | n/d |
| Norbar Torque Tools Holdings Ltd. | Snap-on | 2017-05-04 | $72m | n/d | 1.8x |
| Romaco Pharmatechnik GmbH | Truking Technology Ltd. | 2017-05-02 | $169m | n/d | n/d |
| Quintus Technologies AB | Kobe Steel | 2017-04-13 | $115m | n/d | n/d |
| Jiffy Air Tool | P&F Industries | 2017-04-06 | $7m | n/d | n/d |
| Gestra AG | Spirax-Sarco Engineering | 2017-04-03 | $210m | 10.9x | 2.0x |
| Duplomatic | Alcedo SGR S.p.A. (PE) | 2017-03-14 | $30m | n/d | n/d |
| Siemens Turbomachinery Equipment GmbH | Enovis | 2017-03-08 | $220m | n/d | 1.3x |
| Grindmaster-Cecilware Corp. | Electrolux Group | 2017-03-02 | $108m | n/d | 1.7x |
| Avure Technologies | JBT | 2017-02-27 | $57m | n/d | n/d |
| IP Cleaning SPA (IPC Group) | Tennant | 2017-02-23 | $350m | n/d | 1.7x |
| Kepler Weber S.A. | AGCO | 2017-02-09 | $160m | n/d | n/d |
The 150 most recent of 219 recorded transactions in this sector. n/d means not disclosed. Most transactions close without a published multiple, which is why the disclosed count matters more than the median.
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