en.Wedoany.com Reported - GrayMatter announced the acquisition of New Frontier Technologies (NFT), an industrial automation specialist headquartered in Kansas City, USA. NFT has deep expertise in the oil and gas sector, with employees in Midland, Odessa, and Houston, covering hydrocarbons and process industries, while maintaining growth in the mission-critical data center market. This acquisition adds practical pipeline operational experience to GrayMatter and establishes the company's presence in the Kansas City and Texas markets.
NFT has a deep industrial automation heritage in the oil and gas industry. Founded with a focus on the oil and gas sector, the company has designed durable control, integration, and vision systems for some of the most demanding operating environments in the United States over the years. By solving real-world problems on-site and taking responsibility for its work, NFT has gradually built a market reputation. Building on this foundation, NFT has steadily expanded its business into chemicals, hydrocarbon fuel utilities, alternative energy utilities, and other hydrocarbon-driven industries. The team has also developed a rapidly growing data center business, where its reliability engineering, control expertise, and process discipline directly translate into mission-critical infrastructure supporting next-generation hyperscale environments.
Vision-based material handling expertise is a differentiating advantage for NFT. One of its two office locations in Kansas City is dedicated specifically to this area. The team designs and deploys machine vision and automation systems for large-scale material movement, sorting, and quality inspection. Demand for these capabilities is growing in logistics, manufacturing, and energy operations as customers pursue higher throughput, fewer errors, and tighter integration with broader operational technology stacks.
Craig Walker, CEO of New Frontier Technologies, stated that the company was built the same way as GrayMatter, focusing on relationships, technical depth, and impactful results. This merger provides the team with a larger platform to do the work they love and serve their customers.
This acquisition directly strengthens GrayMatter's industrial automation pillar, one of the company's three core business areas, alongside plant transformation and operational excellence. NFT's deep bench of technical talent, oil and gas heritage, and growing data center footprint expand the range of industries GrayMatter serves and broaden the engineering, integration, and application expertise the company can deploy at scale. With NFT joining, GrayMatter's total employee count will exceed 500, enabling it to serve customers in the oil and gas, life sciences, food and beverage, distribution, and data center operations sectors as a single partner with end-to-end support capabilities.
Paul Galeski, CEO of GrayMatter, said that acquiring NFT strengthens the industrial automation pillar in the way the company intended, by adding a team of thinkers and doers who care about their customers as much as they care about their own. He also noted that Craig Walker and the NFT team have built something lasting in Kansas City, and bringing them in brings GrayMatter's employee count to over 500 and establishes lasting relationships.
There is a clear cultural fit between GrayMatter and NFT. Both organizations have grown by hiring capable thinkers and doers who care about their customers' operations and have earned trust in industries where the cost of failure is high. Craig Walker stated that NFT's team is the core of the company, including engineers, technicians, and project leaders, and GrayMatter recognizes and values this, building the merger around it. This acquisition establishes GrayMatter's first dedicated presence in the Kansas City metropolitan area, an emerging hub for industrial automation, advanced manufacturing, and data center investment in the central United States, located at the intersection of energy, logistics, and infrastructure, providing a geographic anchor for serving customers in the central corridor and beyond.
About GrayMatter: The company is a team that modernizes operational systems for manufacturers, life sciences companies, and infrastructure operators, offering three core pillars—plant transformation, operational excellence, and industrial automation—combining operational technology with data, engineering, and design. About New Frontier Technologies (NFT): Founded in Kansas City with two office locations and employees across Texas, the company is an industrial automation specialist serving the oil and gas, hydrocarbon and process industries, data centers, and vision-based material handling applications.
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