# Pearl Technologies and TGW merge to form Edge Industrial Technologies

Blue Wolf Capital portfolio companies Pearl Technologies and TGW Holdings merged to form Edge Industrial Technologies, a machine knife, blade and packaging manufacturer headquartered in Wilder, Kentucky, with plants in England, the US and India.

- Type: Acquisition
- Announced: 2018-09-17
- Where: Wilder, Kentucky, United States
- Status: completed
- Products: machine knives, blades, cutters, blown film equipment parts, flexible packaging
- Sectors: [Industrial Machinery](https://endata.com/sectors/industrial-machinery.md), [Plastics and Polymers](https://endata.com/sectors/plastics-polymers.md)

## Companies

- [Edge Industrial Technologies](https://endata.com/companies/3886.md)
- [Pearl Technologies](https://endata.com/companies/3883.md) (acquirer)
- [Pearl Technologies](https://endata.com/companies/3883.md) (partner)
- [TGW Holdings](https://endata.com/companies/3884.md) (partner)
- [TGW Holdings](https://endata.com/companies/3884.md) (target)
- [Blue Wolf Capital Partners](https://endata.com/companies/3885.md) (investor)

## Sources

- [packaging-gateway.com](https://www.packaging-gateway.com/news/pearl-technologies-merges-tgw-form-blade-packaging-firm/), 2018-09-16: "Known as Edge Industrial Technologies, the combined entity will provide aftermarket consumables to the food processing, packaging, converting and extrusion industries."
- [privateequityinternational.com](https://www.privateequityinternational.com/blue-wolf-backed-companies-pearl-and-tgw-merge/), 2018-09-17: "The combined company, known as Edge Industrial Technologies, immediately becomes a leading provider of aftermarket consumables to the food processing, packaging, converting and extrusion industries worldwide."

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