Precision Micro, Europe's market-leading photo-chemical etching company, has been sold by Meggitt
Arrowpoint Advisory's Industrial sector team has advised global aerospace and defence group, Meggitt plc on the sale of Precision Micro, Europe's market-leading photo-chemical etching company, to private equity house LDC for 22.5m. LDC is supporting a management team led by current Managing Director Ian McMurray.
Operating from its state-of-the-art processing plant in Birmingham, UK, Precision Micro manufactures more than 50 million high-precision metal components each year for major global manufacturing customers across automotive, aerospace, medical and industrial markets. Its pioneering photo-chemical etching process provides a cost-effective alternative to traditional sheet metalworking when machining precision parts from thin gauge metals.
Working to micron accuracy, its components enable next-generation aircraft engines, zero-emission vehicle technology, surgical instruments, titanium medical implants and automotive companies for the likes of Rolls-Royce, Mercedes, Jaguar and Bentley.
Over 75% of Precision Micro's 15m sales come from overseas markets. Ian McMurray, Managing Director of Precision Micro, said the investment would enable the company to take full advantage of several positive, global trends in its core markets, including the increasing preference for complex, burr and stress-free components manufactured from high-performance metals, rising quality standards, the miniaturisation of electronics and increasing demand for clean and fuel-efficient vehicles.
Ian McMurray, Managing Director at Precision Micro, commented: “The Arrowpoint Advisory team were excellent, providing a high standard of technical support and guidance throughout a very important and at times complex process.”
Graham Carberry, Managing Director at Arrowpoint Advisory, added: “We’re delighted to have advised Meggitt on this important step in their corporate strategy and to see Ian and the Precision Micro team so well-placed to continue to drive the Company's outstanding growth and development.”
The completion of this transaction further reinforces Arrowpoint Advisory's position as advisers of choice to listed UK companies in the industrials sector, following on from the recent divestments of Morgan Advanced Materials plc's Electro Ceramics business to CeramTec and Smith Group plc's global IGT bearings business to Miba AG.
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