SK Capital Partners

SK Capital Partners is a sector-focused private investment firm that utilizes a transformational approach to value creation. The firm is led by five Managing Directors who collectively have substantial industry, operating, and investment experience in the specialty materials, chemicals, and healthcare sectors.

Cole Abernathy

Vice President

Jonathan Borell

Managing Director

Jennifer Cattier

General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer

Dillon, Ben

Managing Director

Simon Dowker

Director

Richard Jackson

Managing Director and Head of Capital Markets

Kramer, Jared

Vice President

Lory, Dan

Principal

Penney, Barry W.

Managing Director

Toukan, Mario

Managing Director

Huai-Ming Xu

Associate

21 past transactions

Canlak

Acquisition in 2021
Canlak specialize in the conception and manufacturing of high quality wood coatings ideal for the industry of wood flooring, kitchen cabiets, furniture an all wood surfaces.

Valentus Specialty Chemicals

Acquisition in 2021
Valentus Specialty Chemicals is a holding company focused on partnering with businesses with superior coatings technologies that can be applied in a broad range of niche end markets. Through strategic partnerships with market-leading businesses, Valentus seeks to build a specialty coatings company with a wide range of technological capabilities and a broad geographic reach. Valentus is focused on serving customers that are not targeted or effectively serviced by the industry’s largest players.

Lacerta Group

Acquisition in 2021
Lacerta Group is a provider of innovative thermoformed packaging solutions. The company has built its reputation based on product integrity, excellent customer service, and above all, speed to market. Lacerta offers a comprehensive product portfolio and in-house design capabilities, with a customer-centric business model focused on tailored solutions for food processors and supermarkets. The Company’s fully integrated manufacturing platform includes capabilities across the product lifecycle in design & engineering, prototyping, mold-making & tooling, thermoforming, extrusion, and printing.

Tilley Distribution

Acquisition in 2021
Tilley-Phoenix Group is a value-added chemical distributor that offers supply chain solutions for customers across specialty chemical and lubricant markets. The Company seeks to act as a direct extension of their suppliers’ selling networks to effectively partner and service broader customer networks. Tilley operates modern, efficient distribution facilities and a large fleet of transportation equipment to serve its customers’ chemical needs.

Catalent

Acquisition in 2021
Blow-Fill-Seal Sterile CDMO Business is focusing on complex clinical to commercial-stage formulation and manufacturing. The Business supports a global, blue-chip customer base with a broad array of products that leverage its BFS sterile manufacturing capabilities and formulation competency in complex chemistries including small molecule, biologics, macromolecules, and potent compounds.

Purisys

Seed Round in 2021
Purisys offers a broad lineup of manufacturing and personnel assets for the development, manufacture, and support of pharmaceutical APIs and other chemical synthesis projects. Their flagship innovation center and manufacturing facility in Athens, GA (17,000 sq. ft.) offer decades of experience in complex high-barrier custom synthetic chemistry and manufacture of pharmaceutical APIs as well as comprehensive controlled substance expertise.

Ipackchem

Acquisition in 2020
Ipackchem was created in 1987 by Jean-Philippe Morvan as a division of Air Products Group and is a leading global manufacturer of barrier packaging. Its products are mainly used in the transport and storage of aromas, fragrances and agrochemical products, for which permeability, contamination and evaporation constraints are critical.

Venator Materials

Post in 2020
Venator Materials is a global chemical company dedicated to the development and manufacture of titanium dioxide (TiO2) pigments and performance additives. They are focused on delivering pigments and additives that make a difference in daily life and contribute to a more sustainable future. Their broad and versatile portfolio of leading pigments and additives includes many well-known brand names and industry-leading products.

NuCera Solutions

Acquisition in 2020
NuCera is a global leader in the development and manufacture of highly differentiated specialty polymers for markets that require high quality and performance: Adhesives, Candles, Coatings, Imaging, Masterbatches, Personal Care and Plastics. NuCera supplies performance chemistry to global markets from its highly flexible manufacturing facilities in Barnsdall, Oklahoma.

Techmer PM

Acquisition in 2020
Techmer PM, LLC produces colors and additives for the plastics and fiber industries. Its additives include antistats, antifogs, antiblocks, antimicrobials, antiwarp agents, chemical foaming agents, clarifiers, conductives, cycle time reduction materials, flame retardants, heat stabilizers, hydrophillics/hydrophobics, IR absorbers and reflectors, laser markers, nucleating agents, optical brighteners, polymer processing aids, purge agents, release agents, scents, slips, tracers, and vapor corrosion inhibitors, as well as UV stabilizers, blockers, and inhibitors; and custom color masterbatches that include marble and swirl effects, thermo chromatics, photo chromatics, pearlescents, fluorescents, and phosphorescent. The company also offers biopolymer additives and colors, color correction aids, viscosity builders, PLA colors and additives, and polycarbonate replacements. Its products are used in BCF and staple fiber, blow molding, cast and blown film, extrusion coating, foam processing, injection molding, nonwovens, profile extrusion, sheet extrusion, and slit tape processes. The company serves agriculture, automotive, construction and pipe, electronic packaging, floor covering, food packaging, household, material handling, medical, and personal care industries. Techmer PM, LLC has a strategic partnership with SK Capital Partners. The company was founded in 1981 and is based in Clinton, Tennessee.

GEON Performance Solutions

Acquisition in 2019
GEON Performance Solutions serves customers in a wide variety of sectors, including appliances, building & construction, electronics, healthcare, transportation, and wire and cable.

SI Group

Acquisition in 2018
SI Group is a developer and manufacturer of chemical intermediates, phenolic resins, alkylphenolic resins and alkylated phenols.

Perimeter Solutions

Acquisition in 2017
Perimeter Solutions has global operations and is a market leader in each of its segments. The Fire Safety business is a formulator and manufacturer of fire management chemicals. The Oil Additives business provides high quality phosphorus pentasulfide used in the preparation of ZDDP-based lubricant additives, in critical engine anti-wear solutions that lead to prolonged combustion engine function, as well as in pesticide and mining chemicals applications.

Archroma

Private Equity Round in 2017
Archroma is a global color and specialty chemicals company headquartered in Reinach near Basel, Switzerland. It operates with 3,000 employees over 35 countries and with 24 production sites. Its three businesses – Brand & Performance Textile Specialties, Packaging & Paper Specialties, and Coatings, Adhesives & Sealants – deliver specialized performance and color solutions to meet customers’ needs in their local markets, touching and coloring people’s lives every day, everywhere. Archroma is passionate about delivering leading and innovative solutions, enhancing people’s lives and respecting the planet. The company is committed to challenging the status quo in the deep belief that it can make its industry sustainable; an approach reflected in its innovations, world-class quality standards, high service levels and cost-efficiency.

Wavelength Pharmaceuticals

Acquisition in 2017
Perrigo API is a leading developer and manufacturer of generic APIs and finished dose forms (“FDF”) with operations primarily located in Israel and supporting functions in the U.S. and India. The Business has a global customer base and a broad array of products that leverage its specialized manufacturing capabilities and core competency in complex chemistries. Perrigo API is known for its uncompromising commitment to the highest quality and reliability standards and has an exemplary compliance track record.

Tri-Tex co.

Acquisition in 2017
Tri-Tex is a producer of high-performance specialty chemicals focused on the adhesive, sealants, surfactants and textile & paper chemical markets. Headquartered in St-Eustache, Quebec, Tri-Tex’s comprehensive suite of products are critical precursors used to develop every-day consumer and industrial applications in a variety of end-markets including paints, printing, personal care, hygiene, construction, textile and marine.

D.B. Western

Acquisition in 2017
D.B. Western, a technology-driven producer of formaldehyde and derivatives. The company’s La Porte, Texas, plant is the merchant market plant in North America serving a variety of applications including oilfield, refineries and petrochemicals.

Niacet

Acquisition in 2017
Niacet is a leading producer of organic salts, including propionates and acetates, serving the Food, Pharmaceutical and Technical industries. With two longstanding and fully automated manufacturing sites, located in Niagara Falls, NY USA, and Tiel, The Netherlands, Niacet offers world-class quality products to a global market.

Extractas Bioscience

Acquisition in 2016
Tasmanian Alkaloids is a fully-integrated manufacturer of controlled substances providing medicinal opiates from patented poppy varieties grown on the farms of Tasmania. The people of this enterprise, at the factory and on the farms, are committed to the highest quality standards and good manufacturing practice. They are committed to ensuring that our long-term business partners receive a fully reliable supply of our product.

AEB Global

Acquisition in 2015
AEB Group produces various food and drink additives, specifically oenology, beer and juices. The company also formulates and supplies cleaning products for professional and agroalimentary applications. The company’s products include biotechnology products such as yeast extracts, enzyme cultures and bacteria; product-enhancing products such as clarifiers, stabilizers, filtration aids, and fining agents; and cleaning and sanitation treatments mainly for the oenology industry. AEB is headquartered near Brescia, Northern Italy.

Halo Pharmaceutical

Private Equity Round in 2015
Halo Pharma based in Whippany, New Jersey, is a leading provider of contract dosage form development, manufacturing, and testing services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and generic industries. Like our customers, we are passionate about making a difference in the lives of patients.
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