Manufacturing in New Jersey
New Jersey earned the name Medicine Chest of the World. Merck sits at Rahway, Johnson and Johnson at New Brunswick, Bristol Myers Squibb near Princeton, with the Bayway refinery and chemical industry at Linden and defense work at Picatinny Arsenal in Morris County.
What we buy and sell in New Jersey
The work here is small, tight and stainless, so we trade Swiss type lathes, wire and sinker EDMs, surface and jig grinders, compact vertical centers and cleanroom ready stainless fabrication gear. We will buy outright with a cash offer made the same day and paid in full before removal, once inspected. Or take the brokerage route, which is free to list, because we are paid only when we perform.
Selling and buying machinery in New Jersey: common questions
Will you buy a wire EDM or Swiss lathe out of a North Jersey job shop?
Those are exactly the machines this state produces. Shops feeding pharmaceutical, medical device and defense customers across Morris, Somerset, Union and Bergen counties run wire and sinker EDMs, Swiss screw machines and precision grinders, and they turn over as contracts change. Send the model, control, year, spindle or cut hours and any tooling and probing that goes with it. We will value the package rather than the bare machine, since fixturing, bar feeders and filtration often carry real weight in what a buyer will pay.
My building is leased and the landlord wants the floor cleared. How fast can this move?
Speed is the whole reason the cash route exists in New Jersey, where square footage is expensive and lease ends are hard dates. Once we have specifications and photographs we can put a cash number in front of you the same day. Payment is made in full before anything is unbolted, after the machine is inspected, so you are not carrying a rigger and a landlord at the same time. If the calendar allows more room, the brokerage route keeps the machine working for you while it is marketed, and we aim to sell within sixty days.
Do you handle equipment from pharmaceutical and packaging lines, not just metal cutting?
We concentrate on metal cutting and fabrication, and that is where we are strongest, but plants in this state rarely retire one category on its own. A pharmaceutical or chemical site clearing a building typically has stainless tanks, vessels, packaging machinery and lab equipment alongside the machine shop iron. Tell us the whole list. We will be straight about what we can buy outright, what we would rather broker, and what genuinely belongs with a specialist in that category instead of with us.
Getting a rigger into a tight urban site here is difficult. Who arranges that?
We do, and we plan it before a number is agreed rather than after. Older multi story buildings in Newark, Paterson and the river towns bring low ceilings, freight elevators with real limits, narrow dock access and street permits. That changes the rigging plan and it changes what the machine is worth to move. Send dimensions of the path out, not just of the machine, and photographs of the door, the aisle and the loading area. We would rather find the problem on a photo than on the day.
Buying or selling machinery in New Jersey? Call KD Machinery at 480-922-1674 or tell us what you have.
We also buy and sell machinery in New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts.