{"id":207294,"date":"2026-04-23T15:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/207294\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T15:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:21:07","slug":"west-hartford-aerospace-supplier-acquired-by-nyc-private-equity-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/207294\/","title":{"rendered":"West Hartford aerospace supplier acquired by NYC private equity firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A West Hartford-based aerospace supplier has been acquired by a private equity firm.<\/p>\n<p>A West Hartford-based aerospace supplier has been acquired by a private equity firm, according to an announcement.<\/p>\n<p>New York City-based Behrman Capital said it has acquired Metallizing Service Co., which provides protective coating services for aerospace and industrial applications.<\/p>\n<p>Terms of the deal were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1940, Metallizing Service Co. supplies engineered coatings for commercial and military aerospace engines, as well as industrial gas turbines and other equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Behrman Capital, founded in 1991, said it invests in buyouts and recapitalizations of established growth companies, with a focus on defense and aerospace, health care and specialty industrial sectors.<\/p>\n<p>The firm said it has raised about $4.3 billion since inception and is currently investing from its seventh fund.<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition was backed by financing from asset management firm Barings, which served as lead agent on the credit facilities supporting the deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A West Hartford-based aerospace supplier has been acquired by a private equity firm. A West Hartford-based aerospace supplier&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":{"0":"post-207294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-ny","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-nyc-headlines","12":"tag-nyc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}