Private Equity Firm Industrial Services

Union Park Capital

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Union Park Capital is a private equity investment firm focused solely on lower middle-market industrial technology companies. It partners with management teams to grow businesses through organic development and strategic add-on acquisitions with a long-term perspective.

Focus Areas
Lower middle-market industrial technology

Tracked deals

33

33 tracked deals across 2019-2026.

Recent pace

2

2 tracked deals announced in the last 12 months.

Deal mix

Addon

26 addon · 7 buyout

Union Park Capital Acquisition Volume by Year

Last 8 years

Acquisition volume by year Annual acquisition counts for the last 8 years for Union Park Capital. 8 2019 2 2020 7 2021 5 2022 3 2023 3 2024 4 2025 ~1 est. 1 2026
Actual Full-year estimate

Supporting Data

Recent Transactions

Showing the 12 most recent of 33 tracked deals for Union Park Capital.

  • Buyer
    Spheros Environmental, Union Park Capital
    Target
    KP Environmental, Inc.
    Seller
    Kenda Pollio
    Type
    Addon

    Spheros Environmental, an environmental consulting firm, announced its acquisition of KP Environmental, Inc., a consulting company headquartered in Encinitas, California. The deal expands Spheros’ environmental planning and regulatory coordination capabilities and strengthens its presence in California and the western United States.

  • Buyer
    Union Park Capital
    Target
    GAM Enterprises
    Seller
    Gary Michalek (founder)
    Industry
    Manufacturing
    Type
    Buyout

    Boston-based private equity firm Union Park Capital has acquired GAM Enterprises, a Mount Prospect, Illinois manufacturer of precision gear reducers, couplings, and custom motion control solutions. The deal establishes GAM as the platform for Union Park’s new precision motion control strategy to accelerate growth, expand capabilities, and pursue strategic add-on acquisitions; terms were not disclosed.

  • Buyer
    CFS Technologies LLC, Union Park Capital
    Target
    Meritech Systems LLC
    Industry
    Manufacturing
    Type
    Addon

    CFS Technologies, a portfolio company of Union Park Capital, has acquired Meritech Systems, a Colorado-based manufacturer of automated hygiene and sanitation systems. The acquisition brings Meritech into the CFS platform (which includes Knight Equipment, Lafferty Equipment and Lavo Solutions) and names former Meritech CEO David Duran as CEO of CFS to accelerate growth across food processing and other hygiene-critical industries.

  • Buyer
    Spheros Environmental, Union Park Capital
    Target
    Northwater Consulting
    Type
    Addon

    Spheros Environmental has acquired Northwater Consulting, a water resources and geosciences consulting firm with offices in Illinois, North Carolina, Michigan and Arizona. The deal — announced by Spheros and sponsor Union Park Capital — strengthens Spheros' technical capabilities in groundwater modeling, geophysics, and source water protection and expands its geographic reach; it marks the sixth acquisition for Spheros Environmental.

  • Buyer
    Union Park Capital
    Target
    AML Oceanographic
    Industry
    Manufacturing
    Location
    British Columbia, Canada
    Type
    Buyout

    Union Park Capital, a Boston-based private equity firm, has acquired AML Oceanographic, a Victoria, British Columbia-based manufacturer of oceanographic and hydrographic equipment. The deal launches Union Park's new marine technology platform to pursue growth across hydrography, water quality monitoring, subsea infrastructure and defense markets; terms were not disclosed.

  • Buyer
    Exaktera, Union Park Capital
    Target
    iiM AG (iiM GmbH)
    Industry
    Manufacturing
    Location
    Thuringia, Germany
    Type
    Addon

    Exaktera, a portfolio company of Union Park Capital, has acquired iiM AG (iiM GmbH), a German developer and manufacturer of specialty LED lighting for machine vision and optical measurement systems. The deal is an add-on to Exaktera’s machine-vision lighting platform, expanding its European footprint and complementary LED and optical measurement capabilities; terms were not disclosed.

  • September 3, 2024
    Buyer
    AEM, Union Park Capital
    Target
    WeatherWorks
    Type
    Addon

    AEM has acquired WeatherWorks, a nearly 40-year provider of meteorological consulting, forecast services, and the Certified Snowfall Totals® product, to expand AEM’s multi-hazard resiliency and weather-data capabilities. The transaction — announced with involvement from Union Park Capital — brings WeatherWorks’ forecasting, historical climate database, and forensic weather services into AEM’s suite of environmental insights solutions.

  • Buyer
    Union Park Capital, LRE Water, Spheros Environmental
    Target
    Timberline Aquatics, Inc.
    Seller
    Dave Rees (owner of Timberline Aquatics, Inc.)
    Type
    Addon

    Union Park Capital has made a majority investment in Timberline Aquatics, Inc., which will join the Environmental Services practice at LRE Water, a Spheros Environmental company. The acquisition integrates Timberline’s aquatic ecological assessment and taxonomic identification capabilities into LRE Water’s platform to expand service offerings, technical expertise, geographic reach, and talent.

  • Buyer
    Union Park Capital
    Target
    HydroGeoLogica, Inc.
    Seller
    Anita Johnson, Brent Johnson
    Type
    Buyout

    Union Park Capital, a Boston-based private equity firm, has made a majority investment in HydroGeoLogica, Inc., a Golden, Colorado-based mining-focused hydrogeology and geochemistry consulting firm. HydroGeoLogica will form a new Mining Services Group within LRE Water (a Spheros Environmental company), with founders Anita Johnson and Brent Johnson continuing to lead the group.

  • Buyer
    Union Park Capital
    Target
    Leonard Rice Consulting Water Engineers, Inc. (LRE Water)
    Type
    Buyout

    Boston-based private equity firm Union Park Capital has made a majority investment in Leonard Rice Consulting Water Engineers, Inc. (d/b/a LRE Water), a Denver-based water resources and environmental consulting firm. LRE Water will serve as the pillar of water expertise within Union Park's Spheros Environmental Group, with management remaining in place as the firm pursues geographic and service expansion.

  • Buyer
    KPM Analytics, Union Park Capital
    Target
    Smart Vision Works
    Industry
    Food & Beverage
    Type
    Addon

    KPM Analytics, a Union Park Capital portfolio company, has acquired Smart Vision Works, a specialist developer of AI-powered computer vision systems for the food and agriculture industries. The deal is an add-on to KPM’s vision inspection portfolio intended to expand its AI/edge vision capabilities for sorting and foreign material detection across food production end markets.

  • Buyer
    CFS Technologies LLC, Union Park Capital
    Target
    Knight LLC
    Industry
    Manufacturing
    Type
    Addon

    CFS Technologies LLC, a portfolio company of Union Park Capital, has acquired Knight LLC, a designer and manufacturer of proportioning and chemical dispensing equipment based in Irvine, California. Knight will join CFS's existing businesses (Lafferty Equipment Manufacturing and Lavo Solutions) to expand CFS's dispensing, dilution and connected-IoT cleaning solutions for end markets including healthcare, food & beverage, laundry and industrial cleaning.

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