---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001206774-23-000417"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "TRNS"
cik: "0000099302"
company_name: "TRANSCAT INC"
filed_at: "2023-03-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-17T14:13:06.797291+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Transcat acquires TIC-MS for $9.7M; 70% stock, 30% cash

## Summary
- Purchase price $9.7 million paid 70% in Transcat common stock (77,387 shares) and 30% cash.
- TIC-MS is an ISO/IEC 17025 accredited calibration lab in St. Louis, MO; founded 1986.
- Existing TIC-MS leadership and staff remain; Transcat plans to co-locate with its existing St. Louis lab.
- Transaction closed March 27, 2023; strengthens Transcat's Midwest calibration services presence.
- Transcat issued shares under Section 4(a)(2) exemption to accredited investors.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001206774-23-000417
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: TRNS
- cik: 0000099302
- company_name: TRANSCAT INC
- filed_at: 2023-03-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/99302/000120677423000417/0001206774-23-000417-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/99302/000120677423000417/trns4179691-8k.htm

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