LONDON – AMSTERDAM
LONDON – AMSTERDAM

H2 EQUITY PARTNERS IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE ITS SEVENTH INVESTMENT BY FUND V: THE ACQUISITION OF SIDERISE – THE UK’S LEADING FIRE & ACOUSTIC INSULATION BUSINESS

H2 Equity Partners is pleased to announce an investment in Siderise, a leading UK manufacturer of fire-safety and acoustic insulation products. The investment enables the retirement of the founder shareholder of Siderise.  The management team, led by Tony James and Steve Swales, will remain as significant shareholders.

The business was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Maesteg, Wales and generates over £25 million sales manufacturing its own products and supported by an international sales team and partners.  Siderise has a strong international position in both the manufacture and supply of fire-safety and acoustic insulation materials.  Siderise provides market leading products, test data & technical services that provide solutions and add value to its customers around the world.  H2 will support the incumbent management team with continued investment in leading technical and testing data and to continue growth in both the UKA and in selected export markets.

For further information on Siderise please refer to https://www.siderise.com/

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Henry Stevens

Senior Associate

 

Henry joined H2 in 2024 and is involved in both evaluating new investment opportunities and supporting existing portfolio companies.

 

Prior to joining H2, Henry spent nearly six years at the strategy consultancy firm, Roland Berger, where he was a core member of the Transaction & Investor Services platform supporting private equity and strategic investors across the Industrial and Regulated & Infrastructure sectors predominantly within the mid-market.

 

Henry graduated from the University of Cambridge with a Bachelor (Hons) in Economics. His interests outside of work are road cycling where he competes in time trials, running and skiing.

Terry Musson

The Amberon Group is a market leading traffic management provider to the utilities and Local Authority markets. Amberon was established in May 2002 with our first depot in Paignton, South West England. Our founding core principles remain at the heart of everything that we do and our continued desire to achieve our purpose; to provide the best service in the Traffic Management sector. This has been the foundation for our success and has cemented our position as the market leader in TM.

During the initial transaction we never felt under any pressure & instantly recognised we would become part of the family. H2 took the time to listen to our views & business strategy, it was obvious from the very beginning that they would be the perfect partner for us.

The guys at H2 have enabled us to continue the momentum & have provided the expertise & knowledge to help us continue on the journey to constantly improve our service offering.

Working with H2 during the last 2 years has given us additional support not just financially but the advice & expertise has helped analytically & strategically.

The ambition and the drive H2 have is extremely infectious & continues to assist the group to overachieve.

It’s enormously reassuring to know H2 will always be at the end of the phone to offer advice but heartening to know they have the trust in us to deliver.