Auction, consignment, or scrap: how idle machinery actually leaves a plant
3 routes, 4 things that actually differ between them, and the honest case for each.
12 guides
Guides for people with machinery to move
Written for the decision in front of you rather than for a search engine. No prices, no figures for any machine, and an honest answer where the honest answer is that you do not need us.
4 guides
Deciding what to do
How a consigned machine is priced, and what actually moves the number
A machine is worth what a buyer pays for it. Everything before that is an estimate, and this is what the estimate is built from.
Redeploy, consign, or scrap: triaging a floor of idle machines
Most floors sort into 3 piles faster than anybody expects, once somebody is allowed to make the call.
The 9 things that quietly destroy what your machine will sell for
None of these look like damage while they are happening. All of them come off your share when the machine sells.
3 guides
Getting the machine to us
Preparing a machine for shipment to our warehouse
Most of what raises the value of a machine happens before it leaves your floor, while there are still people around who know it.
The documents and photographs that sell a machine
A buyer 4,000 miles away decides from what you send. Here is the list, and what each item is worth.
Rigging and freight basics for a machine leaving your plant
A rigger and a millwright are not the same trade, and a carrier cannot quote without numbers. Here is the short version.
2 guides
While it is with us
What happens if your machine does not sell
The question every consignor wants to ask and most do not. Here is the honest answer.
How buyers actually find a machine at APE
Written from the buying side, for consignors. If you know how a buyer arrives, you know why the specification is the whole game.
3 guides
Whole lines and plant closures
Consigning a whole line, or a whole plant
A closure is a project with 2 dates in it. Everything on the equipment side is downstream of those 2 dates.
Consigning machinery without announcing it
A listing describes the machine. It does not describe you, and it never has to.
Consigning machinery from a plant that is still running
The best consignment machines come out of healthy plants, not closing ones. Nobody is in a hurry, and everything still works.
Rather ask a person?
Every guide on this site ends the same way, because it is the one thing that actually helps: send the list and we will tell you whether we can sell it.
Or call (864) 574-0404 and ask for the consignment desk.