Woodsage LLC

Woodsage LLC

Woodsage LLC was founded in 1975 as a steel tube swaging company. It operates out of a single ISO 9001:2015 certified facility in Holland, Ohio. The firm's product line has expanded to include conveyor rollers, pulleys, and custom tube fabrication for the material handling industry. The company's core business is manufacturing specialty steel rollers for conveyor systems. Its product categories include tapered, grooved straight, high-speed, heavy-duty, gravity, and motor-driven rollers, plus pulleys and fabricated tube components. Woodsage has produced over 1 million rollers for installations worldwide, and processes more than 3,000 miles of tubing annually (per the firm's website). Its customer base includes Dematic, a global conveyor automation integrator that named Woodsage 'Return Supplier of the Year' in 2021. Woodsage's geographic reach is primarily North American, with clients in logistics, distribution, and manufacturing. Woodsage employs a workforce that the firm describes as highly experienced, but total headcount is not publicly disclosed. In May 2022, Woodsage acquired Ashland Conveyor Products, an Ohio-based manufacturer of gravity, skatewheel, and telescoping conveyor systems, expanding its product range (per the firm, May 2022). The company also joined the Conveyor and Sortation Systems Group of MHI and became a member of the Conveyor Equipment Manufacturers Association in 2022. Woodsage is owned by Milton Street Capital, a private equity firm that acquired it in November 2021. Woodsage is an operating company, not a family office or investment firm. Its structural differentiator is its ownership by a private equity fund — Milton Street Capital's inaugural fund — which provides capital for add-on acquisitions like Ashland Conveyor Products while leaving day-to-day operations to management. The company competes on lead-time reliability and made-in-USA manufacturing rather than on investment returns.