Cadrex Manufacturing Solutions
The Firm
Cadrex is the clearest exit in this trade because its newsroom is a list of them: a dozen first-party acquisition posts naming CNC machining, laser machining, metal fabrication and tool-and-die companies, each with a date and what the company does.
The reader-facing shape is a platform rather than a strategic. A shop bought here becomes one of a set of facilities described by capability and coast, which is what a seller is choosing when they take this call: the business continues and the name usually does not.
What It Buys
Westminster, Colorado. A sponsor-built precision manufacturing platform that buys machine shops and metal fabricators outright and runs them as facilities inside one North American footprint.
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Confirmed Deals
2 deals traced to announcements by Cadrex Manufacturing Solutions, 2022, newest first. Firms that announce every deal show a fuller run here than firms that report acquisitions as quarterly counts, so read this as the evidence that clears the bar rather than as the firm's whole record.
Nothing newer has cleared the bar in 46 months, against a registry whose newest confirmed deal is August 6, 2026. A gap past 12 months can mean the firm has slowed, or that it has stopped announcing; treat it as a prompt to check its own newsroom before assuming either.
- E.P.M.P., Ltd. · October 6, 2022
A precision sheet metal fabricator founded in 1984, doing high-volume punching, forming, welding and assembly.
- D&R Machine Company · February 28, 2022
A CNC precision machining shop for aerospace and defense, founded in 1971 in Southampton, Pennsylvania.
In Its Trades
Trades it buys
The other confirmed bidders
No second firm is confirmed in this trade from a primary source. That is the edge of the evidence, not proof the field is clear: Buyers lists which trades rest on a single confirmed firm and why.