Ipsum Group expands specialist water and infrastructure offering with acquisition of twoH and ExcelCS

Ipsum Group has today announced its acquisition of twoH and ExcelCS, further strengthening its specialist capabilities across the UK water and infrastructure sectors and enhancing the breadth of services offered through its Water & Infrastructure division.

The acquisition represents another step in Ipsum’s continued growth across the UK water and infrastructure sectors, expanding the range of specialist services available to its customers. By bringing together complementary expertise across clean and wastewater infrastructure, it is strengthening its ability to support water companies across the full lifecycle of their assets helping to ensure safe, efficient and resilient network performance from delivery through to ongoing operations.

Based in North Wales, the two businesses bring complementary strengths across commissioning services, pipelaying and specialist equipment provision. 

ExcelCS delivers clean water commissioning and pipelaying services, supporting the installation, testing and commissioning of critical water assets. 

twoH provides specialist commissioning equipment for hire and sale, including pressure test pumps, chlorination units and associated products. twoH also owns and operates Pipelayer App and Tibiis logger technology used by ExcelCS and external customers. twoH are EUSR approved trainers for commissioning and pipelaying related courses. 

Together, the businesses combine field delivery, equipment provision and digital coordination within a single clean water offering, which will be further developed through Ipsum’s national footprint. 

Andrew Cowan, Chief Executive Officer of Ipsum Group, said: “This is an important step for Ipsum as it further enhances the specialist capabilities within our Water & Infrastructure division, complementing our established wastewater expertise and strengthening our offering across the water sector. 

“The acquisition forms part of Ipsum’s strategy to continually expand its specialist infrastructure services and strengthen its position in the UK water market. By bringing together complementary capabilities across clean and wastewater infrastructure, the Group is able to offer customers an even broader range of services that are critical to the safe, efficient and reliable operation of their assets.” 

Ian McDonald, Managing Director of twoH and ExcelCS, said: “Joining the Ipsum Group allows us to expand our clean water capability and extend the reach of our technical expertise. Both businesses have built strong reputations for technical delivery and customer service, and this partnership enables further investment in people, capability and growth.

“The combination of ExcelCS’s field expertise with twoH’s equipment and digital platform, alongside Ipsum’s scale, creates a strong platform for continued development in the water sector.” 

twoH and ExcelCS will operate within Ipsum’s Water & Infrastructure Division, supporting customers across the sector.

Ipsum operates across Water, Power, Infrastructure, and Control & Automation, delivering engineering services that improve asset performance, enhance operational resilience and support critical infrastructure delivery.