Built on Experience.
Guided by Integrity.
Forging your legacy with operational discipline, teamwork, and manufacturing expertise
Forge52 is a private equity firm dedicated to generating value for manufacturing company founders and family owners. Our mission is to help you continue building on your life’s work with humility, care, and respect for your company’s values and culture.
What Matters
We apply generations of manufacturing and operational experience in supporting our partners to fully realize their legacy.
Aligned Partnerships
North American-based manufacturing companies
Family, management, or founder-owned
Size: $5+ million of EBITDA
Experience & Value
At Forge52, we focus on putting in place the business capabilities that drive growth and profitability.
Our straightforward, low risk approach to value creation rests on deep alignment between ourselves, management and employees. We work alongside business owners and their teams to build stronger, more resilient, and more valuable businesses.
Built With Family
Forge52 was built on generations of experience in manufacturing and operations, supported by the family owners of Deacero, a global leader in steel manufacturing. It all started in 1952 as a small, family-owned workshop and rapidly became a much larger business, which today has over 9,000 employees throughout 16 countries. Now, over 70 years after the first workshop was built, our firm, Forge52, uses the same hard-won lessons of experience to fortify and grow a new generation of manufacturing businesses like ours.