Business Brokerage Dedicated to the Manufacturing Sector
We bring buyers and sellers together — and we know how to get a deal done.
Our specialty is profitable manufacturing businesses in the ~$1,000,000 EBITDA range, where the seller deserves better than a templated process and the buyer deserves a clear-eyed read on what they’re acquiring. That’s a niche most generalist brokers or larger firms don’t serve well, and it’s where decades of operating, banking, and industrial brokerage experience genuinely move the needle.
Every engagement runs through our proven process: a confidential valuation grounded in real-world transaction data, a tightly curated confidential buyer search, hands-on management of diligence and negotiation, and a closing path designed to protect value at every step. No surprises. No wasted time. No deals that fall apart at the finish line.
If your business is operating, profitable, and you’re starting to think about selling, call us. We’ll listen first, give you a straight answer on whether we’re the right fit, and walk you through how we’ve helped owners in your shoes get to the right outcome.
Business Brokerage Proven Process
Listen
Confidential conversation
to understand your goals
Value
Data-driven valuation grounded
in real-world transactions
Curate
Targeted, confidential
qualified buyer outreach
Negotiate
Hands-on diligence
and negotiation
Close
Protect value through
to signed deal
Case Study: Romac Inc. (Toronto, Ontario)
After successfully building his CNC machine shop into a multi-million-dollar business, the founder of Romac Inc. was ready to retire. The challenge: prior agents had attempted to sell the business and the real estate, and none of those efforts had reached the finish line. The owner needed a partner who could actually close.
Workingman Capital was engaged with a clear mandate, and got to work without disrupting the day-to-day production the business depended on.
The numbers that mattered:
- 5 months from engagement to closed deal while production continued uninterrupted.
- 50+ signed NDAs generated by a confidential, professionally marketed prospectus.
- 5 competitive Letters of Interest from qualified, vetted buyers.
- 1 successful Purchase Agreement and a smooth ownership transition.
The result wasn’t just a closed transaction. A successful Canadian business continues under new ownership. 25+ employees kept their jobs. Long-standing client and supplier relationships were preserved. And the founder retired knowing his legacy was in good hands.
Thank you Joshua, John, and your team for the dedication and professionalism shown during our recent sale. Because of your expertise in the machine shop industry and your guidance throughout the process, it was a pleasure to work with all of you.
Robert & Linda
Founder & Owner, Romac Inc.
Case Study: National Sintered Alloys (Clinton, Connecticut)
After 50+ years of building a respected name in the sintered alloys industry, the owners of National Sintered Alloys came to us looking for something most brokers don’t deliver well: a long-term strategic solution that would honour what they’d built and place the business in good hands for the next chapter.
We designed a tailored sale process around their goals, partnered with PPL Group and Detroit Process Machinery, and ran a confidential search for the right strategic buyer, not just any buyer.
The result was a clean transaction with the kind of fit that’s harder to find than a price: continuity for long-standing clients, continued employment for personnel, and a buyer with the synergies to take the business forward rather than wind it down.
You did a very good job for us. I’m pleased with the results — thank you for your efforts.
Bill
Executive, National Sintered Alloys
Mainway Metalworks (formerly Burloak Tool & Die)
We also invest in businesses worth backing.
When the founder of Burloak Tool & Die decided to retire, he wasn’t just looking for a buyer. He was looking for someone who would protect what he’d spent four decades building. Burloak was a vertically integrated stamping plus tool-and-die business with a reputation for quality, a base of blue-chip customers, and a team of people who deserved to keep their jobs.
We joined a partnership led by Summit Ridge Capital Partners to acquire the business, and our President, Joshua Sugar, took a seat on the Board of the renamed entity, Mainway Metalworks Inc.
Why this matters for our clients
This Mainway investment is a deliberate part of who we are. We aren’t a single-service shop. We work in every corner of the manufacturing industry.
We auction equipment and entire facilities for sellers who need speed and competitive bidding. We appraise assets with the credibility lenders, courts, and insurers require. We broker the sale of profitable manufacturing businesses to qualified strategic buyers. And we own manufacturing businesses ourselves alongside the entrepreneurs and partners who built them.
That breadth isn’t a marketing line. It’s the reason our advice lands differently. When we value your equipment, we know what it sells for because we’ve sold it. When we broker your business, we know what buyers really care about because we’ve been the buyer. And when we sit across the table from you, we’ve been on your side of it too.
FAQs
Discretion is central to how we work. We market your business anonymously, qualify every prospective buyer, and require a signed non-disclosure agreement before revealing identifying details. We also never sell or share our database.
It depends on many factors, including business structure, profitability, marketability, and your goals. There’s certain ingredients required to successfully sell a business, every situation is different and we analyze this with you. An operating sale often delivers the best result and keeps your legacy and employees in place; in other cases an asset sale makes more sense. We’ve been on every side of these deals and will give you a straight recommendation.
We primarily broker sales to find you the right buyer. Manufacturing is our specialty. We add value to any manufacturing company that is profitable, in the $1,000,000 EBITDA range, with certain ingredients, looking for an buyer. We’re welcome to share references for businesses we have sold.
It varies with the type of business, and the market, so we won’t promise a date we can’t hit. As a rough guide, a well-run confidential process often six to nine months from engagement to closing, but can easily take longer. What we will promise is to keep you informed at every step and work the deal until it’s done.
It starts with a free, confidential conversation to understand your business and your goals. From there we value the business, prepare a confidential prospectus, build a data room, and quietly bring it to vetted buyers under NDA, narrowing interest down to the strongest offer and guiding you through to a signed agreement and closing. You’ll have one experienced point of contact the whole way through.