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Rensa Is Acquired by AEA and BCI

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Rensa is a leading designer, manufacturer and distributor of highly-engineered, consumable air filtration solutions focused on protecting people and systems in critical environments and applications. Rensa offers a wide range of standard and customized air filtration products that provide best-in-class filtration performance and energy savings in education, healthcare and high-tech manufacturing facilities. The firm also offers specialized air filtration solutions for data centers and activated carbon filters for the removal of odors and molecular contamination in museums, airports and healthcare facilities. Rensa is headquartered in Aurora, Illinois.

Audax is a leading private equity platform focused on investing across the North American middle market. The firm’s objective is to accelerate value creation through its Buy & Build strategy and the Audax Value Agenda™, a holistic framework that seeks to enable, create and protect value across every stage of the investment lifecycle. As of July 2026, Audax had approximately $20.1 billion of assets under management and, since inception in 1999, has invested in more than 180 platforms and more than 1,500 add-on acquisitions. With offices in San Francisco, New York, London and Hong Kong, Audax is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

AEA is a leading global alternative investment firm that has partnered with exceptional middle-market businesses for over 55 years. With a diversified suite of investment strategies spanning private equity and private credit, AEA has established itself as a trusted provider of comprehensive solutions to the middle market. Since its founding by the Rockefeller, Mellon and Harriman family interests and S.G. Warburg & Co. in 1968, AEA has built an extraordinary network of investors, business leaders, operators and advisors and a rich institutional knowledge base. Today, the firm manages approximately $19 billion in assets and operates through collaborative teams of skilled professionals around the world. Leveraging its deep expertise, extensive network and robust resources, AEA seeks to deliver sustainable, long-term value. AEA is headquartered in New York, New York.

BCI is one of Canada’s largest institutional investors, managing C$313.7 billion in gross assets as of March 31, 2026. With offices in Victoria, Vancouver, New York, London and Mumbai, BCI manages a diversified global portfolio of public and private market investments for British Columbia public sector pension and institutional clients. BCI was established in 1999 by the provincial government to secure the financial futures of British Columbia’s public sector. BCI is headquartered in Victoria, Canada.

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