---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001206774-25-000540"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "TRNS"
cik: "0000099302"
company_name: "TRANSCAT INC"
filed_at: "2025-08-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T21:17:47.072757+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Transcat acquires Essco Calibration Laboratory for $84M, largest deal in its history

## Summary
- Acquired all membership units of Essco for $84M cash, closed August 5, 2025.
- Essco has >$22M annual revenue, EBITDA margins >25%, 113 employees, 50-year history.
- Largest Transcat deal; supported by new $150M syndicated credit facility from M&T Bank and Wells Fargo.
- Combined Boston operations become Transcat's highest-revenue location; expects sales/cost synergies.
- Second acquisition in eight months; with Martin Calibration, expected to contribute ~$50M annualized revenue.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001206774-25-000540
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: TRNS
- cik: 0000099302
- company_name: TRANSCAT INC
- filed_at: 2025-08-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.01, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/99302/000120677425000540/0001206774-25-000540-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/99302/000120677425000540/trns4517241-8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001206774-25-000540
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001206774-25-000540.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001206774-25-000540.txt

## Key facts
- M&A Transactions
  TRANSCAT INC completed an acquisition involving Essco Calibration Laboratory, LLC for $84.0 million in cash (closed 2025-08-05).
  - Action: acquisition
  - Counterparty: Essco Calibration Laboratory, LLC
  - Consideration: $84.0 million in cash
  - Closing: 2025-08-05
  source text: or officer of the Company, or any associate of any such director or officer. Pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, the Company acquired all the membership units of Essco for $84.0 million in cash subject to customary holdback and adjustment provisions set forth in the Purchase Agreement. The Purchase Agreement contains various representations, warranties,
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/99302/000120677425000540/0001206774-25-000540-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.