AliKat Group is building a portfolio of exceptional UK engineering and industrial businesses — acquired for the long term, run by their own teams, and backed by permanent capital.
Each portfolio company remains the specialist its customers know, while gaining the investment and stability of a committed owner. Together they provide a complete engineering and fabrication offering — explore our capabilities, read our investment philosophy, or learn how companies join the group.
The portfolio
Established businesses with decades of trading history, deep customer relationships and skills that cannot be bought off the shelf — organised as complementary operating platforms.
Operating platform · Precision Sheet Metal
Precision sheet metal & laser cutting
Cutting, forming, welding and assembly delivered fully in-house — from rapid prototypes and bespoke one-offs to high-volume production, with stainless steel a core specialism.
Operating platform · Design & Machining
Design, fabrication & CNC machining
Design-led fabrication with an independent machine shop — delivered work spans medical facilities, commercial buildings, motorsport chassis exported to the USA, and film and television sets.
Next operating platform · Reserved
Your company’s next chapter
We are actively acquiring established UK engineering, fabrication and industrial businesses. If you are considering succession or sale, your company could join the portfolio — keeping its name, its team and its independence, with a permanent owner behind it.
How companies join the group
A deliberately simple, discreet process — designed around the owner, not the transaction.
A private conversation
It starts with a confidential, no-obligation discussion about you, your business and what you want its future to look like.
A fair, straightforward agreement
No auction process and no drawn-out diligence theatre — a sensible valuation and terms that respect what you have built.
A permanent home
Your name stays over the door, your team stays in place, and the group invests in the equipment, people and capability to grow.
Building the UK’s next great engineering group.
Whether you own a business you are ready to hand over, or need the capabilities our portfolio companies deliver every day — the conversation starts here.