Nekoosa Coated Products, a Wingate Partners portfolio company, has acquired IGI. Mesirow Financial acted as the exclusive financial advisor to IGI in the transaction. IGI is the parent company of RTape, a manufacturer of application tapes and specialty pressure-sensitive materials for the sign, screen print and digital printing markets, as well as CET Films, a manufacturer of cast-extruded films for a range of niche graphic arts and ancillary markets. Nekoosa, which was acquired by Wingate in October 2012, is a Wisconsin-based manufacturer of specialty paper products used in a variety of digital printing applications.
