Specialist engineering business Metalrax has suspended its shares on the Alternative Investment Market and is preparing to call in KPMG as administrators.
Lloyds Development Capital (LDC) has invested in mechanical engineering company PJD Group using capital from a recently-launched £200 million specialist manufacturing and engineering fund.
ISIS Equity Partners has invested £14 million in engineering firm hurleypalmerflatt (HPF) to take a minority stake in the business and provide funding for future acquisitions.
Private equity house Endless has sold specialist engineering business Amco Group to Renew Holdings for £19.8 million, less than three years after backing the group's management buy-out (MBO).
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Northampton-based Associated Engineering Services (AES) has been bought by its management in a deal led by managing director Paul Leeson, James Harman and Phil Mitchell.
Design and engineering group Scott Wilson has agreed to buy a mechanical and electrical building consultancy in a bid to strengthen its underground infrastructure services.
