The Timken Company has announced it will acquire Beka Lubrication for about $165 million.
Beka Lubrication is a global supplier of automatic lubrication systems. The company serves a wide range of industrial sectors including off-highway equipment, wind, food and beverage and rail. Beka sales are expected to be around $135 million for the full year 2019.
With the acquisition, Timken will become the world’s second largest producer of industrial automatic lubrication systems, which displace manual lubrication methods to improve equipment life and reliability, while reducing the total cost of ownership. The transaction advances the company’s strategy, which is focused on growing its leadership position in engineered bearings while diversifying Timken’s portfolio into adjacent products and markets.
“The acquisition of Beka expands our global leadership in the highly attractive automatic lubrication systems market sector, increases our geographic scale and market coverage in Europe and Asia and will create new opportunities to serve wind and other industrial end markets more fully,” said Richard G. Kyle, Timken president and chief executive officer.
“Beka is a premier brand and technical leader, and like our Groeneveld business, offers automatic and central lubrication systems that reduce operating costs and extend equipment life. We expect to realize significant synergies, margin expansion and revenue growth opportunities through the combined Groeneveld-Beka business.”
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Family owned and operated since its founding in 1927, Beka is headquartered in Pegnitz, Germany. The company employs about 900 people, with manufacturing, research and development based in Germany, and assembly facilities and sales offices around the world.
Timken, a manufacturer of engineered bearings and power transmission products, first entered the automatic lubrication market in 2013 with the acquisition of Interlube and then expanded its portfolio and global reach through the acquisition of Groeneveld in 2017.
The privately negotiated transaction is subject to regulatory review approval in Germany, and is expected to close during the fourth quarter of this year. It will be funded with cash and existing debt facilities. Timken expects the transaction to be accretive to earnings in 2020.