POSEYVILLE — Nix Metals, a subsidiary of Nix Companies Inc., announced it is acquiring Superior Fabrication Inc. of Rockport.
Nix Companies is a group of small businesses combined to form a synergistic portfolio company, specialized in industrial product sales, manufacturing and maintenance contracting.
Nix Companies was founded in Poseyville in 1902 by Charles Nix, the great-great-grandfather of current fifth generation
principal owners Matthew and Adam Nix.
Superior Fabrication will become an independent division of Nix Metals and continue to serve its customer base from its Rockport location. The company was founded in 1997 by Curtis Drake of Owensboro, Kentucky.
Matthew Nix, President of Nix Companies, said there are synergies between the two companies.
“While we excel in the industrial market, Superior excels in the commercial construction market,” Nix said in a news release. “Where we are stronger in design to build and heavily customized fabrication,
they excel in larger runs of structural fabrication. Additionally, our coatings company, Nix Coatings, currently provides powder coating and heavy industrial coatings which will complement Superior’s services.”