System Upgrade: Graham Partners’ E Tech Acquires JSat Automation
May 30th, 2025
PHILADELPHIA
New Add-on Augments Life Sciences Systems Integration Capabilities
Graham Partners (“Graham”), a private investment firm targeting advanced manufacturing and technology-enabled services, is pleased to announce that its portfolio company E Tech Group (“E Tech”), an industrial automation systems integrator, has acquired JSat Automation, Inc. (“JSat”).
Headquartered in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, JSat is a pharmaceutical and biotech-focused systems integrator specializing in process controls, manufacturing execution systems (“MES”), and lab automation services. Heightened technological complexity, increased manufacturing activity, and decreased availability of skilled labor have all contributed to the adoption of automation solutions, particularly in the end markets served by E Tech and JSat. Within life sciences, stringent regulatory requirements have led the industry to adopt automation rapidly, positioning JSat well as a specialized systems integrator.
With a global engineering presence across North America, Europe, and Asia, Graham believes JSat not only bolsters E Tech’s national reputation as an integrator of scale but also presents a strategic gateway for the company to expand its operations internationally. Beyond commercial synergies, Graham believes JSat complements E Tech’s existing strengths in the controls segment and expands its capabilities in the high-growth MES and lab automation segments where JSat has domain experience. The life sciences industry demands rigorous and complex engineering, making JSat’s engineering talent highly transferable across E Tech’s other verticals, which Graham finds highly attractive for integrating the businesses. Josh Wilson, Managing Principal at Graham Partners, said “Combined, E Tech and JSat have enhanced potential to help customers solve complex automation problems. We look forward to leveraging Graham’s prior experience in the life sciences space and E Tech’s history of integrating add-on acquisitions to strategically grow and enhance the combined E Tech and JSat business.”
Graham Partners is a private investment firm focused on investing in technology-driven companies that are spurring innovation in advanced manufacturing, resulting in product substitutions, raw materials conversions, and disruptions to traditional end markets. Graham Partners can offer control or minority capital solutions and typically targets companies with EBITDA up to $50 million. Since the firm’s founding in 1988 by Steven Graham, Graham Partners has closed over 160 acquisitions, joint ventures, financings, and divestitures. The committed capital raised since inception through the Graham Partners funds together with Graham-led co-investments totals approximately $6.8 billion as of March 31, 2025, which differs from Graham’s Regulatory Assets Under Management of approximately $4.1 billion as of March 31, 2025. Investors include high-net-worth individuals, college and university endowments, foundations, pension plans, insurance companies, funds-of-funds, and other institutional investors. Based in suburban Philadelphia, the firm has access to extensive operating resources and industrial expertise and is a member of The Graham Group, an alliance of independent operating businesses, investment firms and philanthropic entities, which all share in the common legacy of entrepreneur Donald Graham.
E Tech Group is one of the largest automation engineering and systems integration firms in North America. With locations across North America and more than 600 engineers, the company provides automation, control, and information solutions to the life sciences, data centers, consumer products, food & beverage, and industrial industries. In addition to its organic growth, E Tech Group has recently grown through the successful acquisition and integration of Glenmount Global Solutions, Superior Controls, E-Volve Systems, Automation Group, and now JSat Automation. For more information, visit etechgroup.com.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Josh Wilson (jwilson@grahampartners.net)
Christina Morin (cmorin@grahampartners.net)
Tel: (610) 408-0500
www.grahampartners.net
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