Cadrex Manufacturing Solutions
The Firm
Cadrex is the clearest exit in this trade because its newsroom is a list of them: eleven 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.
Read again in October 2026: the whole newsroom holds eleven purchases from August 2021 to February 2023 and none since, six of them rows now, three machine shops among them. In June 2023 its own news page quoted the chief executive saying the company was pivoting from acquisition mode toward organic growth. Every release since is a plant, a ranking, an award or a certification, the newest a Monterrey equipment investment in September 2026, so the buying stopped in 2023 and the firm did 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
6 deals traced to announcements by Cadrex Manufacturing Solutions, 2022 to 2023, 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 43 months, against a registry whose newest confirmed deal is September 30, 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.
- D&R Machine Company · February 28, 2023
A Southampton, Pennsylvania CNC machining shop for aerospace and defense, founded in 1971, with nearly forty CNC machines.
- E.P.M.P., Ltd. · October 6, 2022
A precision sheet metal fabricator founded in 1984, doing high-volume punching, forming, welding and assembly.
- IDL Precision Machining · September 21, 2022
A Mukilteo, Washington aerospace and defense machine shop with more than fifty machines, announced by the sponsor.
- Tenere Inc · July 19, 2022
A Dresser, Wisconsin sheet metal and molding manufacturer with a Monterrey plant, the seventh add-on; not a machine shop.
- Elite Manufacturing Technologies · June 1, 2022
A Bloomingdale, Illinois precision sheet metal manufacturer across two facilities, the sixth add-on; not a machine shop.
- DFF Corporation · March 8, 2022
An Agawam, Massachusetts precision machining company in a 300,000 square foot facility, announced by the sponsor.