Cooper Turner Beck (CTB Group) has completed its ownership transfer to Waterland, a pan-European private equity firm with a strong track record of supporting and scaling industrial businesses through a buy-and-build strategy.
This partnership marks a new chapter for the group and reinforces its long-term strategic direction across energy, construction and heavy industry.
CTB has established itself as a global provider of safety-critical fastening solutions, combining technical expertise with end-to-end capability across design, manufacturing, testing and distribution. Waterland’s investment aligns with the group’s focus on sector specialisation, operational excellence and disciplined international expansion.
The group would also like to extend its sincere thanks to its previous owner, Watermill Group, whose commitment and stewardship over recent years have played a significant role in strengthening CTB’s international platform, operational capability and market position.
Anthony Brown, CEO of CTB Group, commented:
“This transition reflects the strength of the platform we’ve built and the commitment of our people across the group. Waterland understands our markets, our ambitions and our culture. With their backing, we will accelerate our international expansion, strengthen our sector expertise and invest further in our capabilities - ensuring we continue to deliver the dependable, high-quality solutions our customers rely on.
Importantly, our focus stays the same: engineering excellence, strong partnerships and long-term value creation.”
There are no changes to CTB’s day-to-day operations, and this will have no impact on the quality of our products, our service standards or the customer experience. The group remains committed to delivering dependable, high-quality safety-critical solutions and maintaining strong partnerships with customers, suppliers and stakeholders worldwide.
If you’re a customer, supplier or partner and would like to discuss what this means in more detail, please get in touch.
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