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Selected recent transactions
*under the leadership of the senior management of AI
Sundwiger Messingwerk
BIS Group
LOIBL Förderanlagen
HQ: Hemer Sales: €280m
Year: 2020 FTE: 350
As a traditional company (est. 1698), SMW is one of Germany's leading manufacturers of wires and strips made of brass and other copper alloys. The focus is on horizontally cast phosphor bronze products and high-performance alloys. These semi-finished products are used, among other things, as starting material for connectors in the electronics industry and in automotive electronics as well as in the production of keys.
HQ: Most, Czech Republik Sales: €60m
Year: 2020 FTE: 650
The Bilfinger Industrial Services (BIS) Group is a provider of industrial maintenance services for the petrochemical industry.
The Group comprises a total of two sites in Most (CZ) and one site in Bratislava (SK). BIS focuses on the day-to-day maintenance and repair (i.e. electrical and mechanical trades) of industrial plants in the petrochemical, paper and automotive sectors as well as on major turnaround projects in Central and Western Europe.
HQ: Straubing Sales: €35m
Year: 2019 FTE: 150
Loibl Förderanlagen GmbH is a leading supplier of systems and solutions in the field of bulk materials handling. Since 1960, the company has been developing proven technologies to meet the challenges of bulk materials handling in a wide range of industries - including Waste-2-Energy, sewage sludge incineration and biomass plants. Key customers include all leading EPCs as well as numerous utilities and municipalities.
Exit: May 2023 - Sale to strategic buyer
vosla
EMDE Bohrtechnik
Aspel Group
HQ: Plauen Sales: €20m
Year: 2017 FTE: 120
Vosla is a major supplier of automotive lighting and industrial specialty lamps for global lighting manufacturers as well as industrial customers and in the aftermarket. The automotive product portfolio includes both specialty halogen lamps and LED applications for outdoor lighting. In addition, special lamps are produced for aircraft construction and airport lighting as well as for railroad and medical applications.
HQ: Nentershausen Sales: €30m
Year: 2018 FTE: 200
The EMDE Group is a German engineering company and a quality leader in the field of drilling technology for foundation engineering. With around 200 employees, the company is active at two locations in Germany. EMDE is Europe's No. 1 for high-performance pile and anchor drilling tools for special civil engineering in the aftermarket. In the OEM business, EMDE also exclusively supplies the leading construction machinery manufacturer with function-critical foundation engineering components.
HQ: Beringen, Belgium Sales: €40m
Year: 2022 FTE: 300
Aspel Group is a leading international supplier of high-quality and complex injection molded parts for Tier 1 automotive suppliers.
Major customers include Valeo, Bosch, and Hella. The Group's manufacturing facilities include production sites in Queretaro (MX), Kežmarok (SK) and Suzhou (CH), completed by the headquarters in Beringen, Belgium.
TMC
HQ: Meriden, USA Sales: €40m
Year: 2020 FTE: 40
The Miller Company, based in Meriden, Connecticut, has its roots as a trading and processing specialist of copper alloy strips (including for connectors), supplying customers throughout the USA. The company was acquired as a sister company of Sundwiger Messingwerk GmbH and subsequently managed separately.
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Exit: Sep. 2021 - Sale to strategic buyer
* The exemplary transactions were closed and managed operationally as well as strategically under the leadership of the senior management of Al - partly in the function of co-founder and managing director as well as senior advisor of Deutsche Invest Mittelstand GmbH. The senior management holds a substantial amount of shares in the portfolio companies as a shareholder. Al, however, is not a direct owner of the companies.