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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-24-031641"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "IIIN"
cik: "0000764401"
company_name: "INSTEEL INDUSTRIES INC"
filed_at: "2024-10-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-30T12:38:44.790622+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Insteel Industries acquires EWP for $70M; expands Midwest footprint

## Summary
- Purchase price approximately $70M, subject to inventory adjustment; funded from cash on hand.
- EWP's trailing twelve-month sales through Sept 30, 2024 were $93.3M.
- Acquires EWP's inventories, production equipment, and facilities in Upper Sandusky and Warren, Ohio.
- Also acquires certain equipment of Liberty Steel Georgetown Inc. in South Carolina; Georgetown facility excluded.
- CEO H.O. Woltz III cites expanded geographic reach and operational synergies as key benefits.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-24-031641
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: IIIN
- cik: 0000764401
- company_name: INSTEEL INDUSTRIES INC
- filed_at: 2024-10-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/764401/000143774924031641/0001437749-24-031641-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/764401/000143774924031641/iiin20241020_8k.htm

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