Asset recovery desk
We tell you what it is worth, and we buy it. American Plant & Equipment, Roebuck, South Carolina, since 1975.
Three situations, three different conversations. Pick the one that matches yours and we will keep the questions short.
A line was replaced, a product was discontinued, or a machine has been idle for 2 years. Tell us what it is and where it sits. We say what it is worth and what removing it would involve.
Sell your machineryA site is closing or a line is stopping, and there is a date on it. We value the equipment, buy it or place it with our buyer network, and clear the floor before the lease ends.
Plant closuresNo decision made yet, and nobody wants a sales process. Send the list. We come back privately, in writing, with what we believe it is worth on your timeline.
Get a free valuationProduction machinery in 18 industries. Single machines, complete lines, and whole plants. If your machine sounds obscure, that is usually a good sign rather than a bad one.
Six steps from the first email to money and an empty floor. Nothing here needs a project team.
Make, model, year, quantity, condition, and when it comes free. Half a list is enough to start.
Privately, in writing, with the standard of value we used and what we would pay if we buy it outright.
Where it makes sense. We check the machines, the tooling, and how everything leaves the building.
Outright sale, or placement with our buyer network. If an auction suits you better, we say so.
Disconnection, rigging, crating, export paperwork and freight. Your team keeps running the plant.
Every machine signed out, on a date agreed in advance, with a record of what left and when.
You are already weighing 3 alternatives. Here is the honest version of each, including when the alternative is the better choice.
An auction converts a floor into money on a date somebody else sets, at the lowest of the 3 standards of value. We agree a number before you commit, and the removal risk becomes ours.
When an auction wins: the site has to be empty by a fixed date, there are hundreds of mixed lots, or a lender is driving the timetable.
A listing waits for a stranger to call, and you carry the space, the insurance and the uncertainty until one does. We already know who buys this class of machine, because we sell to them every week.
When a listing wins: the machine is genuinely rare, you have 9 months, and the space costs you nothing.
Scrap value is a floor, not a price. A complete machine with its tooling and its controls is usually worth several times what the weight brings, and the removal is the same work either way.
When scrap wins: the frame is damaged, the machine was purpose-built for a product nobody makes, or getting it out costs more than it can bring.
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6 sections covering what happens to the machinery before the announcement, during the closure and after the last truck. Written from 50 years of clearing plant floors, not copied from anybody else. It is the page that tends to get forwarded internally, which is exactly what it is for.
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Written for the decision in front of you, not for a search engine. No prices, no sales pitch in the middle of a sentence.
Fair market value, orderly liquidation value and forced liquidation value are three different answers to the same question, and the gap between them is mostly time.
Read the guide The three routes compared on the four things that actually differ: speed, certainty, cost of sale, and who carries the risk if the room is empty on the day.
Read the guide
Book value is not a disposal signal, and a fixed-asset register is not an equipment list. A triage an operations team can run in an afternoon.
Read the guideA word from the desk
I have been buying and selling production machinery since 1970. Send me the list, however rough it is, and I will tell you what I think it is worth and what I would do in your position, including when the answer is that you do not need us.Victor LeBron, owner and president, American Plant & Equipment
A rough list is enough. We come back privately, in writing, with what we believe it is worth on the timeline you actually have. It costs nothing and commits you to nothing.
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(864) 574-0404
sales@americanplantandequipment.com
4200 South Church Street Extension, Roebuck, South Carolina 29376