The Riverside Company, a global investment firm, has acquired Switzerland-based cleanroom consumables distributor Abovo through its affiliated European fund, adding to the portfolio of its cleanroom contamination control platform, Dastex Group.
Headquartered in Selzach, Switzerland, Abovo supplies cleanroom consumables to customers across the life sciences, semiconductor and aerospace industries, as well as watchmakers.
The company also distributes complementary products, including Henkel adhesive technologies and electrostatic discharge (ESD) accessories.
The acquisition will strengthen Dastex's presence in Switzerland, expanding its reach among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and complementing its existing relationships with larger Swiss customers.
The combined group also plans to develop Abovo's complementary product lines in collaboration with its partners and suppliers.
Seventh acquisition for Dastex
Riverside backed Dastex in 2023, when the group also acquired Swedish cleanroom consumables supplier Vita Verita as its first add-on.
Since then, Dastex has expanded its European footprint through a series of acquisitions, including Norwegian supplier AET in April 2024 and German distributor CRTM in December 2024.
In 2025, the group acquired cleanroom consumables distributors pure11 and Conformat, operating in the DACH region and France.
The group also acquired Hydroflex, a German developer and supplier of cleanroom cleaning systems.
The Abovo acquisition is the group's seventh add-on and continues Riverside's strategy of building a pan-European cleanroom contamination control business.
Dastex distributes third-party and own-brand cleanroom garments and consumables to customers in pharmaceuticals, life sciences, semiconductors and other high-tech industries, where products and processes must meet increasingly stringent quality and regulatory requirements.
