On January 3, Pennsylvania, US-based specialty alloy producer Carpenter Technology Corporation announced it has acquired Amega West Services, LLC, a Houston, Texas-based manufacturer and service provider of complex components for directional drilling equipment.
According to a Carpenter release, Amega West Services, LLC was purchased from a group consisting of energy equity company Energy Special Situations Funds, other investors and certain Amega West employees for approximately $54 million. The transaction is expected to be modestly accretive to earnings in fiscal year 2011.
"We view energy as one of our fastest growing end-markets and we are expanding our portfolio of target applications in oil & gas and power generation," said William A. Wulfsohn, president and chief executive officer of Carpenter Technology. He added, "In particular, we believe that global oil and gas demand will continue to rise and directional drilling activity, which uses a variety of our specialty alloys, will increase. This acquisition enables us to accelerate our participation in the growth of directional drilling and speeds up introduction of new alloys into the market."
Carpenter Technology currently supplies alloys to Amega West. The company plans to expand Amega West's manufacturing capacity at its Tyler, Texas, facility, as well as the rental fleet and the footprint of the company's five North American service centers. Amega West president Reddy Godula and vice president Dave Overton will continue to manage Amega West's operations.