Odyssey Investment Partners, LLC (“Odyssey”), a middle-market private equity firm, announced that its Fund has acquired Pexco LLC, a leading North American engineered plastic component supplier, from AEA Investors. Another Odyssey Fund previously owned Pexco from 2012 to 2017. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Based in Atlanta with manufacturing plants in the United States and Mexico, Pexco provides extrusion, design and fabrication of specialty plastic products for a wide variety of applications across a diverse range of end-markets including traffic safety, lighting, fluid handling, electrical insulation, privacy fence, and other specialty industrial markets.
Pexco CEO Sam Patel and the management team will continue to lead Pexco and have invested alongside Odyssey in the transaction.
Craig Staub, a Senior Managing Principal at Odyssey, said, “We are very familiar with Pexco and are thrilled to partner again with its proven and experienced management team. Pexco has evolved into a company focused on a diverse range of industrial businesses with deep industry relationships and stable demand across attractive end markets. Pexco has the ability to continue scaling its business by applying its unique operational capabilities to address customers’ most challenging applications. As Pexco continues to expand to new end markets and high-performance polymers, we look forward to leveraging our resources to support the company’s long-term growth and continued industry leadership.”
Mr. Patel said, “We are thrilled to welcome back Odyssey Investment Partners as our majority owner. During our previous partnership we benefitted extensively from the Odyssey team’s guidance in developing and prioritizing both organic and inorganic growth initiatives, leading to a very successful outcome. We are very pleased that Odyssey has once again recognized Pexco’s considerable potential in its target end markets. We look forward to resuming our collaboration and continuing our growth trajectory through the next chapter in Pexco’s storied history.”
