MCM’s interest in this segment is centered on companies employing highly engineered materials in the manufacture of custom components to solve their customers’ most challenging problems. Engineered materials are high value-added materials that invariably perform better than conventional materials, yielding products that, for example, are lighter, higher specific strength, corrosion and abrasion resistant, chemically inert, have broader service temperature ranges, are multifunctional, or have better life-cycle performance. Due to rapid industrialization across the world, the demand for engineered materials is increasing in areas like medical, life science, aerospace, defense, oil and gas, and automotive. Accordingly, we believe component manufacturers leveraging their technical expertise in processing engineered materials will experience outsized growth.

• The drive for fuel efficiency has led to lightweight specialty materials in the Aerospace and Automotive markets

• Technological advances in the growing Medical market create a need for biocompatible specialty materials, sterile resistant adhesives, and surgical adhesives, to name a few

• The trend towards miniature electronic components spurs demand for engineered materials with rapid setting paces and extreme temperature resistance

• Niche products with unique performance enhancing characteristics enjoy higher than average profit margins and greater customer loyalty
• Metal to plastic conversion trends

• Fragmented sector with considerable growth-enabling tailwinds

We have a strong track record of partnering with talented, innovative management teams utilizing engineered materials including thermoplastics, composites, technical ceramics, unique alloys, and advanced process technologies and tools.

We have been able to augment our portfolio companies’ technical know-how and engineering talent with a pragmatic sales and marketing strategy targeting B2B engineers to accelerate growth.  We have encouraged investment in innovations enabling new product development, dramatic performance improvements of existing products, enhanced-efficiency, and/or greener manufacturing processes for Aerospace & Defense, Medical, Life Sciences, Industrials, Optics,  and Sensor Industries.