---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-25-065878"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RBC"
cik: "0001324948"
company_name: "RBC Bearings INC"
filed_at: "2025-07-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T04:58:08.537081+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# RBC Bearings completes $275M acquisition of VACCO Industries; draws $200M from revolver

## Summary
- Subsidiary Roller Bearing Company of America drew $200M on $500M revolver to partially fund the all-cash $275M purchase.
- Remaining $296.3M undrawn capacity remains under the revolver; balance of price paid with cash on hand.
- VACCO Industries (South El Monte, CA) manufactures precision valves, manifolds, regulators and filters for space and naval defense.
- Acquisition closed July 18, 2025; revolver matures November 2026 but may be repaid earlier.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-25-065878
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RBC
- cik: 0001324948
- company_name: RBC Bearings INC
- filed_at: 2025-07-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.03, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1324948/000121390025065878/0001213900-25-065878-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1324948/000121390025065878/ea0249591-8k_rbcbear.htm

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## Key facts
- Debt Financings
  RBC Bearings INC incurred revolving credit of $200.0 million with Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, and the other members of the lender group maturing November 2026.
  - Instrument: revolving credit
  - Principal: $200.0 million
  - Counterparty: Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, and the other members of the lender group
  - Maturity: November 2026
  - Event: incurrence
  source text: On July 18, 2025 Roller Bearing Company of America, Inc. (“RBCA”), a subsidiary of RBC Bearings Incorporated, drew down $200.0 million on its $500.0 million revolving credit facility with Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, and the other members of the lender group (the “Revolver”), and used the money to pay a portion of the purchase price to acquire VACCO Industries.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1324948/000121390025065878/0001213900-25-065878-index.htm

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