How this works

1. You send the list

Make, model, year, serial where you can find it, quantity, condition, whether it is under power, what tooling goes with it, and when it comes free. Photographs help more than descriptions.

What it costs you: an afternoon on the floor with a phone and a spreadsheet. What we need: a rough list. Half a list this week beats a complete one next month.

2. We come back with a number

In writing, privately. It says what we believe the machinery is worth on the timeline you have, which standard of value we used and why, and what we would pay if we buy it outright. If another route beats us for what you have, it says that too.

What it costs you: nothing, and it commits you to nothing. Confidentiality: assumed. We will sign a non-disclosure agreement before the detailed list goes out if you want one.

3. We walk the floor

Where the size of the job justifies it, we come and look. We check the machines against the list, watch what can be run, count the tooling, and work out how everything leaves the building. That last part is not incidental: removal cost comes off the top of any offer, so the route out is part of the price.

What it costs you: a few hours of somebody's time and a safety induction. Who covers the cost of the visit is agreed before we travel.

4. You choose the route

Outright sale gives you a fixed number and a fixed date, and the removal risk becomes ours. Placement with our buyer network gives a higher ceiling and no floor, and takes longer. Most closures use both: the good machines one way, the general plant equipment another.

If an auction is genuinely the right answer for what you have, we say so. That happens when the site must be empty by a fixed date, when there are hundreds of mixed lots, or when a lender is driving the calendar.

5. We handle the removal

Disconnection, millwrighting, rigging, crating, export documents and freight. We work to your access schedule and your permit system, not around them. What we need from your side is short and specific:

• Power, light and compressed air kept live in the removal zone until the last machine leaves.
• Floor loading limits, door clearances and the route, confirmed in writing.
• The hazardous material register for the building.
• 1 person with keys who knows where the isolators are.

6. The floor is clear

Every machine signed out with a record: what it was, its number, who took it, when, and on whose authority. Photograph the empty footprint. That paperwork is what stops a closure turning into an argument 6 months later about a machine nobody can account for.

Timelines, honestly

A single machine can go from first email to collected inside a few weeks when it is straightforward. A complete plant is a 90-day project done properly, and the first 30 of those days are the list and the valuation rather than anything visible.

The variable that moves the recovery most is not our speed, it is when you start. Work that runs in parallel with a confidential closure captures the value of time. Work that starts the week after the last shift is a forced sale wearing a different name.

Terms, plainly

• Valuations are free, written, and carry no obligation.
• Ask what a valuation or a floor walk will cost you before we start. We will tell you plainly.
• Where we buy outright, we put the payment terms in writing before anything moves.
• Where we place machinery with an end user, the basis is agreed in writing before we market it.
• We do not publish your site name, your address or your list.
• Ask for a mutual non-disclosure agreement and we will look at yours or send you ours.