Valence Surface Technologies Acquires B&M Painting

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Valence Surface Technologies announces the acquisition of B&M Painting (Camden, Arkansas), a leading provider of surface treatment for highly engineered products in the aerospace and defense market in the South-Central region of North America. B&M provides surface treatment to many leading U.S. defense platforms by maintaining key approvals with strategic A&D primes such as Lockheed Martin (Bethesda Maryland), General Dynamics (New York, New York) and Aerojet Rocketdyne (Sacramento, California).

Founded in 1984 by the late Tom McCasland, B&M has been owned and managed by multiple generations of the McCasland and Payne families. The business provides a wide variety of metal finishing services, including media blast, anodizing, chem film, non-destructive testing (NDT) and industrial painting, specializing in military-standard (MIL-STD) and OEM-certified paint and primer for mission-critical defense applications.

B&M operates out of an approximately 81,000-square-foot manufacturing campus in Camden, Arkansas, that the company has expanded through investments in increased capacity, OEM approvals and the addition of new equipment to maintain state-of-the-art metal finishing capability.

With the acquisition of B&M, Valence continues to execute on its customer-focused strategy to improve the aerospace and defense supply chain by creating an integrated platform that offers full-service product finishing solutions with industry-leading quality and turn times.

Chris Celtruda, CEO of Valence, says, “We are extremely excited to add the B&M team and capabilities to the Valence platform. B&M’s proximity to key defense customers in Central Arkansas will enhance Valence’s service offering in that region and help drive our ability to offer a complete range of coating solutions to our customers.”

As part of the transaction, B&M’s existing management team and workforce will remain with the organization. Tracy Payne and Brian McCasland, current principals in the business, along with Matt Hopkins, the B&M general manager, will remain active in the business and will help integrate the business into the Valence platform.