netMercury: Clearlake Portfolio Firm Makes Acquisition

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital Group said today that one of its portfolio companies, FloWorks International, has acquired netMercury. FloWorks is a provider of specialty flow control distribution products; netMercury provides parts and services to the integrated circuit fabrication and technology industry. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Clearlake said that netMercury has locations in Dallas, Austin, and Phoenix, and provides system controls, temperature controls, high purity valves and fittings, fluid pumps, liquid flow controls, cleanroom equipment, consumables, vacuum pumps, and wafer process equipment, and other related products. netMercury was founded in 2000.