POLYGENA
A long-term home for seven Swiss industrial SMEs across precision mechanics, bearings, and engineered components: 600+ employees and CHF 100–150M revenue.
- Sector
- Precision Engineering
- HQ
- Switzerland (multiple locations)
- Employees
- 600+
- Since
- 2019
- Transaction
- Management Buy-Out
- Participation
- Majority
- Vehicle
- Unternehmer-Investoren-Plattform
- Revenue
- CHF 100-150M
About
Company Overview
POLYGENA AG is not a typical industrial company — it is a holding platform built around a simple but powerful idea: Swiss SMEs deserve an owner who thinks in decades, not fund cycles. POLYGENA takes full, long-term entrepreneurial responsibility for its subsidiaries, preserving each company's identity and culture while creating value through shared synergies and process innovation.
Today, the POLYGENA Group comprises seven companies: ROSTA AG, JESA AG, PWB AG, Nozag AG, Compounds AG, FME Feinmechanik AG, and Kubo Tech AG. Each serves specialised industrial niches: from vibration damping technology and precision bearings to technical compounds and fine mechanics.
Across all seven companies, POLYGENA employs over 600 people and generates combined revenue of CHF 100-150 million. What holds it together is not a rigid corporate structure, but a shared commitment to customer value through innovation in products and processes, and an ownership model that gives each subsidiary the stability and long-term horizon it needs.
Partnership
Our Partnership
Helvetica Capital acquired POLYGENA through a Management Buy-Out in September 2019. At the time, the holding comprised fewer companies than it does today. The original owner was looking for a successor who would not just preserve the existing businesses, but actively build on the platform: acquiring additional companies, strengthening the group's capabilities, and providing each subsidiary with the resources and strategic guidance to reach its full potential.
Our entrepreneur-investors were the right fit because they understood this was not a turnaround or a financial restructuring. It was about stewardship: taking a well-functioning industrial holding and giving it the ownership stability and strategic ambition to grow from a handful of companies into a genuine industrial family.
Value Creation
What We Are Working On Together
Group-level synergies and process optimisation
Identifying and realising efficiencies across the seven subsidiaries (in procurement, production, and shared services) without imposing uniformity or eroding each company's distinct identity.
Inorganic growth through selective acquisitions
Actively pursuing add-on acquisitions that complement the group's existing capabilities, expand into adjacent industrial niches, and provide a permanent home for additional Swiss SMEs looking for long-term ownership.
Organic growth and geographic expansion
Supporting each subsidiary in expanding its market reach: through new geographic markets, deeper penetration of existing customer segments, and development of new product applications.
Every exit is a completed story.
When we transition a company, it is from a position of strength, including to international groups.