Evantic (Edgewater Capital Partners) Acquires Plastic Distributors and Fabricators, LLC

Evantic Acquires Vertec Polymers, Inc.

January 10, 2023

Manufacturing

Evantic, a portfolio company of Edgewater Capital Partners, has acquired Vertec Polymers, a Houston-based designer and manufacturer of high-performance polymer materials including PEEK, PPS, PTFE and PFA. The acquisition expands Evantic's engineered components platform by adding polymer R&D, injection and hot-compression molding, and precision machining capabilities to better serve customers in the energy, life sciences, food & beverage and industrial markets.

Deflecto (Edgewater-backed) Acquires Evriholder Products, LLC

July 24, 2019

Consumer Products

Deflecto Holdings, LLC, a portfolio company of Edgewater Growth Capital Partners IV, L.P., has acquired Evriholder Products, LLC. The acquisition adds a leading housewares and organizational-products supplier to Deflecto’s portfolio, expanding its product assortment and retail distribution capabilities.

Star Plastics Merges with Trivalence Technologies; Akoya-Backed Platform Expands Capabilities

July 9, 2025

Manufacturing

Star Plastics, the Akoya Capital Partners-backed engineered thermoplastics compounder, has merged with Trivalence Technologies, LLC, a custom thermoplastic compounder based in Evansville, Indiana. The merger is an add-on to the Star Plastics platform intended to expand technical capabilities, product offerings, geographic reach, and tolling services for OEM and molder customers.

Nautic Partners Acquires Aurora Plastics

August 11, 2021

Manufacturing

Nautic Partners has completed the acquisition of Aurora Plastics, a Streetsboro, Ohio-based producer of PVC and custom polymer compounds, in partnership with Aurora management. The seller parties were Wind Point Partners and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board; financing for the deal was led by Antares Capital and Carlyle Global Credit, and Nautic says it will support Aurora's growth and pursue acquisitions in the fragmented specialty compounds market.

Foam Fabricators Acquires Substantially All Assets of Polyfoam Corp.

July 2, 2020

Packaging

Foam Fabricators, a Compass Diversified Holdings-backed packaging platform, has acquired substantially all of the assets of Massachusetts-based Polyfoam Corp., expanding Foam Fabricators' protective and temperature-sensitive packaging capabilities and geographic footprint. The deal adds Polyfoam's cold-chain and injection-molded plastic capabilities and enables cross-selling to national customers while Foam Fabricators also announced a partnership with Rational Packaging and commercialization of a biodegradable EPS product.

Harrington Industrial Plastics (Nautic Partners) Acquires Crist Group

August 24, 2022

Manufacturing

Harrington Industrial Plastics, a portfolio company of Nautic Partners, has acquired Crist Group, a Woodland, California-based specialty fabricator of fluoropolymer fluid process components serving the semiconductor and medical markets. The add-on acquisition will deepen Harrington's fabrication capabilities and broaden its offering to semiconductor customers while Crist's owner, Paul Crist, will join Harrington and continue to run the Crist division.