Ametek to buy Indicor’s instrumentation businesses for $5bn, the largest CD&R partial exit of 2026
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice banks one of the cleanest mid-market industrial partial exits of 2026, three and a half years after carving the portfolio out of Roper Technologies. Ametek pays a full multiple for picks-and-shovels exposure to the AI-infrastructure trade.
Ametek, the Pennsylvania-based scientific-and-industrial-instrumentation company, has agreed to acquire the test-and-measurement businesses of Indicor for approximately $5bn. The deal was first reported by the Wall Street Journal in late April when the two parties entered exclusive negotiations, and is the largest single partial exit Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has executed in 2026.
Indicor itself is a 16-brand industrial-instrumentation portfolio (Alpha, AMOT, CCC, Cornell, Dynisco, Roper Pump, Struers, Uson, and others) that originated as a 2022 carve-out from Roper Technologies, with CD&R taking a 51 per cent majority stake at a $3.6bn enterprise value and Roper retaining a 49 per cent minority equity interest plus $2.6bn in upfront cash.
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