Sky Island Capital, a Dallas‐based lower middle market private equity firm with a portfolio company, Polished Metals Limited, has acquired Pride Metal Polishing, a Los Angeles-based metal polisher.
Pride Metal Polishing services metal distributors, metal fabricators, architects, and designers with commercial and custom‐residential metal finishing and polishing.
Jeff Watson“Pride Metal Polishing’s strategically located facility in the Los Angeles area will allow us to build out our presence on the West Coast,” says Jeff Watson, Chief Executive Officer of Polished Metals. “We look forward to bringing the Pride Metal Polishing team on board and improving both businesses through the collaboration of Rod Lowell and our highly experienced team.”
Rod Lowell, President of Pride Metal Polishing says they are excited to partner with Polished Metals and the Sky Island team.
“This combination will further solidify our position as the pre‐eminent metal polisher on the West Coast and add new capabilities to better serve existing and new customers,” Lowell says.
Sky Island Capital Managing Partner Jack Waterstreet says the transaction will enable Polished Metals to grow its customer base and expand its presence from coast to coast.
“We intend to continue growing Polished Metals as the leading metal polisher in North America through organic initiatives and add‐on acquisitions,” Waterstreet says.
Founded in 1979, Polished Metals www.polishedmetals.com is one of the country’s largest polishers and suppliers of architectural and ornamental metals, offering a variety of finishes and metals to several end markets, including the architecture and design community, elevators, escalators, transportation, and many others. Headquartered in Hillside, New Jersey with an additional production facility in El Monte, California, Polished Metals maintains a diverse customer base throughout North America.
Sky Island Capital www.skyislandcap.com is a lower middle market private equity firm based in Dallas, Texas that makes control investments in strategically viable North American manufacturing companies that exhibit transformational upside potential.
