A disciplined, repeatable model for consolidating the UK's fragmented precision-manufacturing base — acquiring established engineering businesses, transforming them operationally, and building a single industrial group of lasting value.
Automotive and aerospace face unprecedented global and national uncertainty — pushing OEMs to rationalise and de-risk their supply base.
Primes urgently need reliable, scaled Tier 1 partners that can guarantee continuity of supply — not a long tail of sub-scale suppliers.
The UK's precision-manufacturing base is highly fragmented and under-invested — ripe for consolidation and operational transformation.
A deep, largely off-market pipeline of acquisition targets — distressed, underperforming and succession-driven situations.
We identify distressed or underperforming supply-chain assets where the underlying capability is strong but the balance sheet or operations are not.
We install strong, experienced management and apply proven operational discipline to stabilise and turn the business around.
Each business is integrated into a consolidated group structure — sharing commercial, governance and back-office strength.
As long-term owners, we compound value — driving EBITDA growth and expanding the platform through further acquisition.
We actively seek acquisition opportunities where strong underlying businesses are being held back. Our target profile includes companies with:
Established businesses with solid revenues, typically between £5m and £100m — large enough to matter, with real scope to grow.
Aerospace, automotive, defence, precision engineering or advanced manufacturing — including AI-enabled industrial technology.
Owners considering retirement or succession planning, seeking a considered change of ownership for a business they have built.
Businesses navigating financial, operational or quality challenges — where genuine capability is being held back.
Companies with the capacity or capability to grow, but lacking the capital or leadership to do so on their own.
Businesses where the adoption of AI or modern technology could unlock significant, durable value.
When we acquire, we move quickly to stabilise the business and protect its customers and people. Our 2026 acquisition of North West Precision — an Airbus-qualified aerospace manufacturer — is a clear example of the model in action.
The business was acquired as a going concern, with every employee retained under TUPE. We injected working capital, funded an immediate machine-repair programme, and brought the operation under the Group's commercial and governance structure — preserving continuity of supply to the aerospace primes throughout.
It is a repeatable template: buy a capable but constrained business, fund and fix it, integrate it, and build from there.
We work with owners, advisers and intermediaries on confidential acquisition opportunities across advanced manufacturing. If your business fits this profile — or you advise businesses that do — we welcome a confidential conversation.