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Realising value from your business shouldn't have to mean giving up your legacy. When we invest, we support and empower you to continue running your business.

Building on Legacy. Growing Together.

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We invest only where our expertise allow us to add long term value; handling and control products for the water, chemical, oil and pharmaceutical sectors.

Experts in Fluid Handling

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When you join Flowmax, you join a network of like-minded owner-managers all benefitting from our central team’s expertise supporting their business growth.

Growth Through Shared Vision

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The Flowmax Way

Our approach to investment is a future that many don’t realise is possible when looking to sell their business. As an operating partner, our role isn’t to strip assets or cut heads, it’s to build on what’s already there and grow successful SMEs through a shared vision.

Staying true to our expertise in the sourcing, stocking and distribution of fluid handling and control products, Flowmax provide strategic and operational guidance to our group businesses, while their management teams continue leading the business, protecting the culture and legacy they’ve built.

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Growth for SMEs

When we buy a majority stake in your business, our central team work with you strategically to grow it to the next level.

Identity & Continuity

We empower you to largely maintain day to day responsibility, providing continuity for your teams and customers.

Shareholder Rewards

In a “two-step-sale”, you take some cash now, continue to work and receive dividends, then sell the rest when you retire.

Our approach

From us

Graham Morrell, CEO of Flowmax

“Every business we invest in has a story long before we arrive. It’s built through years of hard work, relationships, and the decisions made by owner-managers who have created something worth preserving. That’s why at Flowmax we don’t come in to rewrite that story. For us, growth isn’t about replacing a legacy. It’s about respecting it, building on it, and achieving more through a shared vision.”

Our approach

From our partners

Richard Stammers, Founder of Essco Group

“Once a family business reaches a certain size the owners have to decide whether to bring in resource to help them grow. Flowmax stood out due to their philosophy of maintaining owner involvement. They allow business owners to run the business day to day whilst benefitting from being part of a much larger group. Flowmax have helped us fund an acquisition and Essco has grown as a direct result”.

Support for you, your business and your teams

Flowmax don’t just invest, we support. Those joining our group can tap into the support, finance and expertise offered by our central team to collaboratively set the course for their long term business growth while retaining significant day-to-day responsibility for the company.

Our acquisition strategy

Over the past five years, Flowmax revenue has grown by 50% through investing in successful fluid handling SMEs and supporting their growth. Commitment to our strict acquisition criteria means we focus on businesses where we can add long-term value, typically through majority ownership and a partnership with owner-managers who stay and grow the business under a shared vision.