A New York private equity firm, High Road Capital Partners, announced it has bought Akron-based Akron Hardware Consultants Inc., a wholesale distributor of commercial and institutional door hardware. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. High Road said in a news release that Akron Hardware will be combined with Kansas City, Mo.-based Midwest Wholesale Hardware, which the private equity firm bought in February as the sixth platform company for High Road Capital Partners Fund II.