2020 M&A Wrap-Up

According to our count, there have been 19 EMS deals and 7 PCB (bare board) deals in North America so far in 2020. Here are some of the significant EMS and PCB deals so far in 2020: PCB Deals: * NCAB (public company in Sweden) acquired BBG (April 2020) (PCB Distributor) * Fralock (owned by Arsenal C...

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Published inSMT (Online) Vol. 36; no. 1; pp. 72 - 74
Main Author Kastner, Tom
Format Trade Publication Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Seaside BR Publishing, Inc 01.01.2021
Subjects
Baby boomers
Circuit boards
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Distributors
Equity
Manufacturing
Private equity
Technical services
United States > US
North America
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Summary:According to our count, there have been 19 EMS deals and 7 PCB (bare board) deals in North America so far in 2020. Here are some of the significant EMS and PCB deals so far in 2020: PCB Deals: * NCAB (public company in Sweden) acquired BBG (April 2020) (PCB Distributor) * Fralock (owned by Arsenal Capital) acquired Career Technologies USA (June 2020) * Additive Circuits Technologies acquired Winonics (June 2020) * Epec Technologies acquired NetVia (November 2020) * Printed Circuits, Inc. sold to PE Group Granite Equity (November 2020), which also owns All-Flex. EMS Deals: * Prime Technologies acquired TeligentEMS (January 2020) and I Technical Services (February 2020) * Zentech (BlackBern Partners) acquires Trilogy Circuits (January 2020) and Camtek (March 2020) * Princeton Technology Corp acquired by Intervala (April 2020) * Creation Technologies (Lyndsey Goldman) acquired Applied Technical Services (May 2020) * SigmaTron International (public company) merged with Wagz (June 2020) * Sparton Corporation EMS Division sold to One Equity Partners (June 2020) * Universal Electronics acquired by East West Manufacturing (Heritage Growth Partners) (September 2020) * M-Wave International acquired by SlingShot Assembly (October 2020) * EmeraldEMS (NewWater Capital) acquired Saline Lectronics (November 2020) and Veris Manufacturing (December 2020) Once again, private equity was behind many of the deals in 2020 and is expected to be a major player going forward.