SK Capital, a private investment firm focused on the specialty materials, chemicals and pharmaceuticals sectors, has completed its previously announced acquisition of the Performance Products & Solutions business from PolyOne Corporation.  The business has been renamed GEON Performance Solutions (GEON).   GEON, headquartered in Avon Lake, Ohio, is a global leader in plastic compounded solutions, holding the preeminent global brand in polyvinyl chloride compounds, as well as offering a broad range of formulated polypropylene and other thermoplastic polyolefin products and contract manufacturing services. The Company operates twelve manufacturing locations across both North America and Asia and employs approximately 1,100 people.   

New investment company Impel Healthcare Catalysts (Impel) has completed its first deal by acquiring a majority stake in pioneering ostomy company Trio Healthcare (Trio). This is the first major deal for Knutsford-based Impel, which was launched earlier this month by entrepreneurs Richard Anderson and Spencer Kerry – previously part of the management team behind Crawford Healthcare – to be a catalyst for innovation and growth in the healthcare sector.   Founded by Lloyd Pearce in 2006, Trio has bases in Buckinghamshire and Skipton where it manufactures a range of novel ostomy products, which have consistently delivered year-on-year growth for the

VONQ, a European smart recruitment technology specialist, has sold a majority stake to capital D, a private equity fund investing in disruptive mid-market companies across Europe.  VONQ’s recruitment marketing technology aims to enable companies to bypass the expensive, slower recruitment agency model and market to potential recruits with pinpoint accuracy.   VONQ’s commercial objective is to apply its technology to enable corporate recruiters to attract the right talent themselves without administrative burden.  By integrating with more than 2,000 job boards, VONQ’s recruitment marketing platform addresses the major challenges of the traditional recruitment agency model – cost and speed to hire

Engineering design consultancy, Hydrock, has acquired Yorkshire-based MRB Consulting Engineers, as the company expands its footprint across the UK. Hydrock has been backed by BGF since 2018. Since BGF’s investment, Hydrock has seen significant growth, opening a new office in Birmingham and expanding its teams in Manchester, Cardiff and Southampton. BGF has provide follow-on funding to support the acquisition of MRB and to enhance Hydrock’s ongoing strategic development plans.   MRB was founded in 2007 and delivers building services design and environmental engineering consultancy services on a wide range of property schemes both in northern England and across the UK.

Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA) has reached an agreement with Siemens AG to acquire an additional 10 per cent stake in Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm (Gwynt y Môr) in the UK. Gwynt y Môr is a 576 MW offshore wind farm positioned 13 kilometres off the coast of North Wales. Operational since 2015, Gwynt y Môr comprises of 160 3.6 MW wind turbines spread across 80 square kilometres. Each year, the wind farm provides enough clean electricity to power approximately 430,000 UK homes.   Leigh Harrison, Head of MIRA EMEA, says: “We are delighted to announce an

Los Angeles-based private equity firm Vance Street Capital has recapitalised Eirtech Aviation Services (EAS), a provider of specialist aviation services for the largest airlines and aircraft leasing companies globally. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Headquartered in Shannon, Ireland with offices in Dublin and Singapore, EAS provides design-engineering, manufacturing and product solutions, as well as asset management and CAMO services, that ensure regulatory compliance with FAA, EASA and other local jurisdiction mandates. EAS’s turnkey services provide full support to airlines, aircraft leasing companies, private operators and OEMs for all their fleet transition and modification requirements. EAS was founded