Amberjack Capital Forms Partnership with Industrial Thermal Services to Accelerate Strategic Growth Plan

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 28, 2025--

Amberjack Capital Partners (“Amberjack”), a private equity firm investing in critical infrastructure services, today announced its partnership with Industrial Thermal Services, LLC (“ITS”), a premier provider of industrial heat treating and specialty services.

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This partnership marks a significant milestone in ITS’s growth trajectory, enabling the company to expand its geographic footprint, invest in new technologies, and further strengthen its operational capabilities. Amberjack’s experience and proven track record in scaling industrial services businesses make them an ideal partner for ITS as the company enters its next phase of growth.

Jason Turowsky, Managing Partner of Amberjack, commented, "We are thrilled to partner with Ryan and the ITS team. ITS has built an exceptional business with a strong culture of safety, quality, and customer focus. We look forward to supporting the continued growth of the platform through our investment and partnership.”

Industrial Thermal Services will continue to operate under its current leadership, with Amberjack providing strategic and financial support to accelerate ITS’s long-term growth strategy.

Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Nederland, Texas, ITS delivers mission-critical on-site and shop-based heat treating solutions to customers in the refining, LNG, petrochemical, power generation, and broader industrial sectors. Under the leadership of Founder and CEO Ryan Aras, ITS has expanded into a national service provider with operations across seven locations in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Montana. The company continues to grow its loyal customer base by focusing on high-quality service delivery, technical expertise, and rapid response capabilities.

"Our partnership with Amberjack begins an exciting new chapter for ITS. Their thoughtful support of founder-led businesses and industry expertise make Amberjack an ideal partner as we grow and invest in new opportunities,” said Ryan Aras, Founder and CEO of ITS.

About Amberjack Capital Partners

Amberjack Capital is a private equity firm that invests in and partners with entrepreneurs and business owners to build market leaders serving the industrial, infrastructure and environmental end markets. Often the first institutional investor in founder-led companies, Amberjack has a particular focus on supporting high performing companies undertaking strategic or transformative initiatives. Headquartered in Houston, TX, the firm has raised $2.1 billion of committed capital since its inception in 2006 and has invested in over 50 companies.

About Industrial Thermal Services

Industrial Thermal Services is a premier provider of heat treating and specialty field services across the energy and industrial landscape. In addition to heat treating, ITS offers bolting, torquing, cold cutting, and hydrostatic testing. Headquartered in Nederland, TX, ITS is known for its focus on safety, technical precision, and rapid deployment. Learn more at www.its-thermal.com.

Amberjack Capital Partners with Industrial Thermal Services, a premier provider of industrial heat treating and specialty services.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A former Polish justice minister who faces prosecution in his homeland over alleged abuse of power said Monday that he has been granted asylum in Hungary.

Zbigniew Ziobro was a key figure in the government led by the nationalist conservative Law and Justice party that ran Poland between 2015 and 2023. That administration established political control over key judicial institutions by stacking higher courts with friendly judges and punishing its critics with disciplinary action or assignments to far-away locations.

Current Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s government came to power more than two years ago with ambitions to roll back the changes, but efforts to undo them have been blocked by two successive presidents aligned with the national right.

In October, prosecutors requested the lifting of Ziobro's parliamentary immunity to press charges against him. They allege among other things that Ziobro misused a fund for victims of violence, including for the purchase of Israeli Pegasus surveillance software.

Tusk’s party says Law and Justice used Pegasus to spy illegally on political opponents while in power. Ziobro says he acted lawfully.

Hungary, led by nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, has hosted several politicians close to Law and Justice while Polish authorities were seeking them.

In a lengthy post on X Monday, Ziobro wrote that he had “decided to accept the asylum granted to me by the government of Hungary due to the political persecution in Poland.”

“I have decided to remain abroad until genuine guarantees of the rule of law are restored in Poland,” he said. “I believe that instead of acquiescing to being silenced and subjected to a torrent of lies — which I would have no opportunity to refute — I can do more by fighting the mounting lawlessness in Poland.”

Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said in Budapest on Monday that Hungarian authorities have granted asylum to “several” individuals who would face political persecution in Poland, according to his ministry. He declined to specify their names.

In an English-language post on X, Tusk wrote that “the former Minister of Justice(!), Mr. Ziobro, who was the mastermind of the political corruption system, has asked the government of Victor Orbán for political asylum.”

“A logical choice,” he added.

FILE - The leader of the Polish junior coalition partners Zbigniew Ziobro, speaks to reporters alongside in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, file)