Operating Company Manufacturing

Trystar

Faribault, Minnesota, United States

Designer and manufacturer of custom power solutions and critical-power equipment, including switchgear, generator connection and paralleling switchgear, generator docking and control products, and power monitoring and controls.

Focus Areas
Custom switchgear and switchboards, Generator connection and paralleling switchgear, Power monitoring, control and protection products
Website
www.trystar.com

Tracked deals

8

8 tracked deals across 2021-2026.

Recent pace

1

1 tracked deal announced in the last 12 months.

Deal mix

Addon

6 addon · 2 buyout

Trystar Acquisition Volume by Year

Last 5 years

Acquisition volume by year Annual acquisition counts for the last 5 years for Trystar. 2 2021 2 2023 2 2024 1 2025 ~1 est. 1 2026
Actual Full-year estimate

Supporting Data

Recent Transactions

  • Buyer
    Trystar
    Target
    Island Technical Installations (ITI)
    Industry
    Manufacturing
    Location
    British Columbia, Canada
    Type
    Buyout

    Trystar has acquired Island Technical Installations (ITI), a Victoria, British Columbia–based electrical equipment engineering, manufacturing, and services company specializing in low- and medium-voltage switchgear and mobile substation solutions. The acquisition expands Trystar’s custom LV/MV switchgear capabilities and service offerings and brings ITI’s teams and new Arlington, Texas production facility into Trystar’s North American platform.

  • Buyer
    Trystar
    Target
    Asentria Corporation
    Type
    Buyout

    Trystar has acquired Asentria Corporation, a Seattle-based developer of the SiteBoss site controller and remote site monitoring solutions, to broaden its monitoring and controls product portfolio. The acquisition brings Asentria’s hardware and software expertise into Trystar’s power solutions platform and aims to accelerate product development and go-to-market reach across telecom, data center, and utility end markets.

  • Buyer
    Trystar, LLC, Blackstone, Inc.
    Target
    Salient (formerly PSI Power & Controls / Salient Power Solutions)
    Seller
    LFM Capital
    Industry
    Manufacturing
    Type
    Addon

    Trystar, a portfolio company of Blackstone, has acquired Salient (formerly PSI Power & Controls / Salient Power Solutions) from LFM Capital. Salient is a Charlotte-headquartered OEM of custom switchgear and industrial controls serving data centers and other critical-power end markets; financial terms were not disclosed.

  • Buyer
    Trystar
    Target
    Macromatic Industrial Controls, Primax Technologies
    Industry
    Manufacturing
    Type
    Addon

    Trystar, a Goldner Hawn portfolio company, completed the acquisitions of Macromatic Industrial Controls (Waukesha, WI) and Primax Technologies (Pointe-Claire, Quebec). The add-ons expand Trystar’s manufacturing and monitoring capabilities—adding electronic relays and battery-backed AC/DC power solutions—and broaden its market access, including strengthened utility and industrial reach in Canada.

  • Buyer
    Trystar, Goldner Hawn
    Target
    Cyber Sciences
    Seller
    Patoka Capital LLC
    Industry
    Manufacturing
    Type
    Addon

    Trystar, a Goldner Hawn portfolio company, has acquired Cyber Sciences, a Murfreesboro, Tennessee-based maker of sequence-of-events recorders and GPS time-synchronization devices. The add-on acquisition, purchased from Patoka Capital LLC, expands Trystar's power monitoring, diagnostics and analysis capabilities for data center, healthcare and critical-power markets.

  • Buyer
    Trystar, Goldner Hawn
    Target
    Oztek Corporation
    Industry
    Manufacturing
    Type
    Addon

    Trystar, a Goldner Hawn portfolio company, has acquired Oztek Corporation to broaden its electric power solutions portfolio and bolster renewable energy and battery energy storage system capabilities. Oztek, headquartered in Merrimack, New Hampshire, manufactures battery inverters, energy storage power conversion systems, bi-directional DC power supplies and printed circuit power supplies.

  • Buyer
    Trystar, Goldner Hawn
    Target
    Total Plant Management Group (TPMG)
    Industry
    Manufacturing
    Type
    Addon

    Trystar, a Goldner Hawn portfolio company, has acquired Total Plant Management Group (TPMG), a Houston-based designer and manufacturer of prefabricated steel buildings, control panels, metering skids, and modular electrical substations. The deal expands Trystar's power-system offerings by adding turnkey engineering, fabrication, integration, testing and commissioning capabilities for E-houses and remote instrument enclosures.

  • Buyer
    Trystar, Goldner Hawn
    Target
    Controlled Power Company
    Industry
    Manufacturing
    Type
    Addon

    Trystar, a Goldner Hawn portfolio company, has acquired Controlled Power Company (CPC), a Troy, Michigan-based manufacturer of commercial, industrial, and medical-grade power quality solutions. The acquisition expands Trystar's portable and permanent power distribution offerings to include inverters, high-efficiency transformers, power conditioning, UPS/battery backup and industrial DC (rectifier) solutions, broadening its end markets such as data centers, healthcare, and commercial buildings.

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