The Riverside Company Adds Key Polymer to Seatex Platform

The Riverside Company Invests in Seatex

October 28, 2024

Manufacturing

The Riverside Company has completed an investment in Seatex, a Texas-based chemical formulation and manufacturing provider. Riverside will partner with CEO Jonathan O'Dwyer to support Seatex's growth and expand its manufacturing and technology capabilities across markets.

The Riverside Company Acquires Seatex; Comvest Credit Provides $85M Senior Facility

December 5, 2024

Manufacturing

The Riverside Company has acquired Seatex, a specialty chemical formulator and manufacturer headquartered in Rosenberg, Texas. Comvest Credit Partners acted as administrative agent and sole lender on an $85 million senior secured credit facility to support the acquisition.

Seatex Acquires ChemQuest Chemicals

September 7, 2022

Manufacturing

Seatex, a specialty chemical manufacturer backed by Cotton Creek Capital, has acquired ChemQuest Chemicals, a custom toll manufacturer headquartered in Pasadena, Texas. The deal, completed in September 2022, expands Seatex's production capacity and technical capabilities while providing continuity for ChemQuest customers; Edgewater Capital Partners, ChemQuest's private equity owner, sold the business.

Dastex Group Acquires Hydroflex from Riverside-backed Platform

April 25, 2025

Healthcare Services

Riverside Europe has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Hydroflex and add it as the sixth add-on to its portfolio company Dastex Group. Hydroflex, a Buseck, Germany-based developer and manufacturer of cleanroom cleaning systems (PurMop, PurWipe, PurGuard), will expand Dastex's own-brand product offering and accelerate R&D and international distribution to life sciences, labs, hospitals and high-tech end markets.

DalFort Capital Partners (via Key Polymer) Acquires Unichem, Inc.

October 14, 2021

Manufacturing

DalFort Capital Partners, through its affiliate Key Polymer Holdings, LLC (Key Polymer), has acquired Unichem, Inc., a Haw River, North Carolina-based manufacturer of specialty adhesives and custom-formulated chemicals. The acquisition is an add-on to Key Polymer intended to create operational synergies and strengthen the combined companies' position across multiple end markets including automotive, construction and consumer products.

DalFort Portfolio Companies Key Polymer and Polymer Adhesives Complete Two Add-on Acquisitions

July 2, 2025

Manufacturing

DalFort Capital Partners' portfolio companies completed two add-on acquisitions: Key Polymer Holdings acquired Durant Performance Coatings (Revere, MA) and Polymer Adhesives Holdings acquired Volunteer Adhesives (Lafayette, TN). Both deals expand the platforms' manufacturing footprints and product portfolios across industrial, infrastructure, marine and packaging end-markets.