Another private equity seller has moved a specialty manufacturing asset into the hands of a long-term family office.

Brodie Generational Capital Partners has acquired Sur-Seal, a custom seals and gaskets manufacturer, from Heartwood Partners.

The deal adds to Brodie’s growing sealing platform, which already includes the late-2024 acquisition of Kent Manufacturing, a Michigan-based fabricator offering machining and assembly capacity.

Sur-Seal engineers and manufactures highly customized components that solve performance and reliability challenges for customers—providing sealing, vibration and noise abatement, dust and liquid ingress protection, as well as thermal management and RFI/EMI shielding.

The company operates manufacturing facilities in Charlotte, North Carolina (headquarters), Cincinnati, Ohio, and Grand Rapids, Michigan.

CEO Pete Futia and the existing leadership team are staying on.

Brodie Generational is the single-family office for the Brodie family, investing its own permanent capital with a mandate to hold and grow businesses for decades.

The office had set out to find a converting industry platform, and Sur-Seal’s technical capabilities, broad customer base, and experienced management fit that thesis.

By adding Kent Manufacturing last year, Brodie already gained complementary fabrication and assembly operations.

Sur-Seal gives it a direct advanced materials converting and engineering capability to build on.

William Blair served as financial adviser to Sur-Seal.

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom provided legal advice and Ernst & Young provided financial and tax advice to Brodie Generational.