Case Studies · Seller Results

What happens when you hand us the whole plant.
The sales, the buyers, and the results.

Plant closures. Consolidations. Line upgrades. Retirements. Each of these clients gave us a facility full of equipment and a deadline. These are the sales: how they were run, who bid, and what the seller walked away with.

One buyer gives you an offer. Hundreds of buyers give you a market.

What The Sales Show

The result doesn't come from one place.

A hammer price is the sum of things that either happen during a sale or don't. These four happened, and they're measured.

The target was the floor

+51%

Over the seller's own target

The client's number was their expectation. The bidders never saw it.

Half the money came from strangers

52%

Of the hammer won by bidders who registered after the sale went live

We didn't sell the plant to our list. We built a bigger one for it.

The close was a suggestion

$900K

Added after the scheduled close

No lot closes while someone is still bidding on it.

Every lot got a crowd

3,311

Lots sold, paid, and removed

Nothing went for scrap because only one person showed up.

All Sales

The studies.

Biesse Rover B FT CNC machining cell on the Cabinetworks Thompsontown plant floor

Complete Plant Auction

Cabinetworks Group · Thompsontown, PA

Plant sold for $2.2M. $900K of it landed after the scheduled close.

Seven buildings and 30 acres from the largest privately held kitchen cabinet manufacturer in the US, split into five sales by department so every lot got its own crowd. 156 bidders joined after the catalog went live and took half the money.

Plant closureReached new buyersBidding past the closeCleared the floor

2,450

Lots Sold

33,311

Total Bids

176

Separate Winners

Sale Days

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Drone view of the Adornus Cabinetry facility in Lancaster, SC before the auction

Plant Closure Auction

Adornus Cabinetry · Lancaster, SC

Expected $1.5M. The auction hit $2.26M.

A 349,000 sq ft luxury cabinetry plant, cataloged to the last lot and sold in three days to 400 registered bidders. 24.5 bids per lot pushed the total 51% past the client's own target.

Plant closureBeat the numberCleared the floor

861

Lots Sold

21,113

Total Bids

24.5

Bids Per Lot

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Your Situation

Every sale has a reason. The reason changes the plan.

Cataloging, marketing, and bidding that runs until it stops. That part is the same every time. What changes is what you're up against: a lease date, a lender, a line that has to keep running, a vendor waiting to install. The plan is built around that. Find yours below.

Plant Closure

Everything goes, and the building has a date.

The flagship CNC will find its buyer anywhere. The risk in a plant closure is the other two thousand lots: the racking, the carts, the dust collection, the forklifts, the panel stock. Sold as a pile, they go for scrap. Sold as lots with their own crowd, they're a third of the money.

Split by department

A 2,000-lot catalog is a catalog nobody reads. We run the plant as several sales, each one a catalog of the machines that buyer actually came for, with its own closing day.

Cataloged on site, floor by floor

Our crew cleans, stages, photographs, and writes every lot in the building. You hand over access on day one and get the floor back when it's empty.

Removal to your date

The sale calendar is built backward from the day the landlord or the buyer of the building takes possession. Paid, removed, swept.

The expensive mistakeTaking the lump-sum liquidation offer. It's one bidder's number, delivered before anyone else has seen the plant. On a recent closure, the market added $900K to the board after the scheduled close.

Plan A Plant Closure See the closure studies

Downsizing Or Consolidation

Part of the floor stays. Part of it has to pay for the move.

Merging two plants into one, or shrinking a footprint, means selling around a line that's still running. The sale can't stop production, and the equipment you keep can't get mixed into what leaves. The decision of what stays is the whole job, and it has to be made with real resale numbers, not a guess.

Valued before you decide

We price every machine at auction value first. Some equipment is cheaper to sell now and rebuy later than to rig, ship, and reinstall at the surviving plant.

Cataloged while you run

Staging and photography happen around your shifts. Nothing sold is tagged, moved, or removed on a production day without the plant manager's sign-off.

Removal on your schedule

Buyers pick up in windows you set. Sold lots leave through the dock without the surviving line ever noticing.

The expensive mistakeShipping a machine to the surviving plant because it's "already paid for." If it sells at auction for more than the freight, rigging, and reinstall, you just paid to move a loss.

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Relocation

Don't pay freight on iron worth less than the truck.

A move is a forced decision on every machine on the floor: rig it, ship it, reinstall it, or sell it here and buy again there. Most plants ship everything by default and find out in the new building which machines weren't worth the trip.

Sell-or-ship, machine by machine

We put an auction value next to the move cost for every lot. The ones that lose that comparison go in the sale. The rest go on the truck.

Closed before the lease ends

The sale is timed so sold lots are paid and gone before your last day in the building, not sitting on the old floor while you're paying rent on two.

Coordinated with your rigger

Buyer pickups and your own load-out share one dock. We schedule around each other so nothing collides.

The expensive mistakeDiscovering a machine wasn't worth moving after it's been moved. The cost to rig and ship doesn't come back, and now it's in a building where it still has to be sold.

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Line Upgrade Or Replacement

Sell the old line while it's still running.

A machine under power, making parts, with a maintenance log, sells for real money. The same machine unplugged in a corner for six months sells for a fraction of it. The window between the new line's order date and its install date is when the old one is worth the most.

Cataloged under power

We photograph and film the line running. Buyers see it cut, see it cycle, and bid on a working machine, not a question mark.

Timed to the install

The close lands after your last production run on the old line and before the vendor needs the floor. Removal fits the gap.

Proceeds before commissioning

Sold lots are paid at close. The money is in your account while the new line is still being leveled.

The expensive mistakeLetting the equipment vendor take the old line in trade. A trade-in is one bidder. An auction for a running machine is hundreds, and the vendor was never going to give you what they'll pay.

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Receivership Or Lender-Directed

A public, competitive, fully documented sale.

When a lender, trustee, or receiver controls the assets, the sale has to hold up to a court or a credit committee. That means a public catalog, a bid record on every lot, settled funds, and a vacated site, on a calendar that usually isn't generous.

Live in days, not months

We secure the site, catalog on the receiver's timeline, and open bidding fast. Marketing runs hard for the full window because the buyer base has to be built for this sale.

Every bid on record

Each lot carries its complete bid history: who bid, when, and how much. Defensible line by line, not just in total.

Reported to whoever holds the paper

Proceeds, fees, and removal status go to the receiver or lender directly. Ownership doesn't have to be in the room.

The expensive mistakeA private sale to a known dealer because it's fast. It's one number, it's not defensible, and the difference between one buyer and a market is the recovery you'll have to explain.

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Owner Retirement

No buyer for the business. The shop is the exit.

When there's no successor and no one buying the company, the equipment is what you built and the equipment is what you're selling. It deserves a sale with competition behind it, and it deserves to be somebody else's job to run.

One walkthrough, one contact

We take you through the process once, up front. After that, one person on our side runs the whole engagement and you get a call when there's something to decide.

Timed for the market, not the mood

Retirement sales usually have the most flexible calendar. We use it to close in the strongest window for your equipment category.

Sold to people who'll use it

Your machines go to other shops, bidding against each other. Prices set by competition, not by a dealer's opening offer.

The expensive mistakeSelling piecemeal on classifieds for two years while the shop sits, the lease runs, and every machine loses value each month it's off.

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Surplus Equipment

Idle iron is capital sitting on your floor.

The business is running. The problem is the machine that isn't: the second edgebander, the old moulder, the press nobody's turned on since the line changed. It's taking floor space you could use and holding money you could spend.

Auction or fixed price, whichever brings more

Individual machines go into a timed auction or list on the marketplace at a set price. We pick the route by what the category is doing that month.

One site visit

Cataloging a handful of lots is a single trip. Photos, video, specs, and listing are handled the same day.

Production never notices

Buyer pickup is scheduled with your plant manager. The machine leaves, the check clears, the floor is yours.

The expensive mistakeKeeping it because "we might need it." Every year it sits, it's worth less, and the day you do need it you'll want the newer model anyway.

Sell Equipment

Selling equipment? Start with a number.

Tell us what you have and why it's moving. We'll give you a valuation and a plan for the kind of sale it needs.

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The result doesn't come from one place.

The target was the floor

Half the money came from strangers

The close was a suggestion

Every lot got a crowd

The studies.

Plant sold for $2.2M. $900K of it landed after the scheduled close.

Expected $1.5M. The auction hit $2.26M.

Every sale has a reason. The reason changes the plan.

Everything goes, and the building has a date.

Part of the floor stays. Part of it has to pay for the move.

Don't pay freight on iron worth less than the truck.

Sell the old line while it's still running.

A public, competitive, fully documented sale.

No buyer for the business. The shop is the exit.

Idle iron is capital sitting on your floor.

Selling equipment? Start with a number.

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