A Family of Companies Creating Lasting Value
We’re a growth platform and value-added operator with a permanent ownership mindset, demonstrating how human and economic vibrancy can work in harmony. With a proven, enduring business model and operating playbook, we combine a disciplined acquisition strategy with purpose-driven organic growth. Our approach creates lasting value rooted in shared values—realizing our belief that business can be the most powerful force for good.
Lasting Value Rooted in Shared Value
Who We Are
Our portfolio spans industrial & packaging automation, professional services, and life sciences technology, reaching a diverse set of markets, customers, and consumers. From everyday essentials to life-saving innovations, we operate where trust, precision, and human impact matter most. By focusing on sectors vital to daily life and progress, we generate lasting value—creating economic growth that benefits all stakeholders across industries, roles, and communities.
- BW Converting
- BW Packaging
- BW Papersystems
- Afinitas
- Food Automation (Future)
- BW Design Group
- Cor Partners
- Chapman & Co.
- Matter Family Office
- WalkerHughes Insurance
- Carr Biosystems
- Machine Solutions
What Makes Us Different
We deliver growth as an investor, operator, and partner—deploying a disciplined playbook that scales businesses, unlocks synergies, and fuels long-term success.
We generate consistent results through diversified, recurring, and resilient revenue streams in healthy markets—built for growth that outpaces the market.
We’ve grown and held over 150 companies with a perpetual-hold mindset—creating long-term value for employees, customers, shareholders, and communities.
A History of Redefining What’s Possible
Our purpose was clear from the beginning: unlock potential where others only saw risk. Through cash discipline, creative incentives, and a proven aftermarket playbook, we transformed distressed companies into opportunities for growth.
As we grew, our purpose expanded beyond value creation to cultivating leaders with the courage to care. Tested and galvanized through the 2008–2009 recession, our culture became the foundation for people-driven growth and expansion into adjacent manufacturing markets, leveraging the proven model that fueled our early success.
Our business evolved into a growth platform—connecting markets, expanding services, and building synergies. Launching our hybrid equity model proved our value-added investor approach, guided by a permanent capital mindset. We diversified our manufacturing roots with our maturing professional services playbook, aligning culture and strategy into an engine for organic growth.
Entering our step-change era, we built new muscles to deliver growth by design—developing new competencies, sharing capacity and capabilities across platforms, and investing in talent to unlock results and build scale that shapes the future.