We have bought and sold 621 injection molding machines. That is our own record, not a catalog listing — so when we quote your machine, we are pricing something we have traded before.
We have 54 injection molding machines listed right now, so we know what the market is paying this month.
Get an offer on your injection molding machine
Tell us what you have and how to reach you, and we will come back with a route and a number — usually the same day. The make and model of your injection molding machine are enough to start.
Why sell your injection molding machine to KD Machinery
No one make owns our press book, which is not true of most of the machines we handle. Arburg runs to 97 machines and Nissei to 93, with Van Dorn at 74 and Toshiba and Toyo not far behind, so whatever is on your floor is a press we have bought and sold before rather than one we are looking up. The number that moves an offer most is not the make at all: 334 of the presses we have handled were listed under power, and a press a buyer can watch cycle is a different machine commercially from one sitting cold in a corner.
What we buy
Hydraulic, all-electric and hybrid presses, toggle and two-platen clamps, from small insert-molding machines to large tonnage. Vertical and rotary-table presses, multi-shot and co-injection machines. A single press, a cell with its dryer, chiller, granulator and robot, or a whole molding floor.
What decides what a used injection molding machine is worth
- Clamp tonnage and shot size, which together decide the tools your press can run and are the first two things a buyer asks for.
- Whether it is under power. 334 of the presses we have handled were, and being able to run a part on it is worth more than any description of its condition.
- Tie bar spacing, platen size and mold height range — the numbers that tell a buyer whether their existing tooling actually fits.
- Core pull and hydraulic knockout circuits, listed on 311 and 246 of ours. A press without the circuits a mold needs is a smaller market.
- Robot interface, listed on 239 of ours. A press already wired for a take-out robot sells into automated shops as well as manual ones.
- Screw and barrel condition, and whether the screw has run glass-filled or abrasive resin. This is the single most expensive thing to discover after purchase.
- Control generation and whether it still holds settings and prints a shot record.
How to sell a injection molding machine
A press sells on evidence that it makes good parts, not on how clean the guarding looks. Before it is listed:
- Get it under power if there is any way to do so, and film it cycling. This does more for the price than everything else here combined.
- Photograph the data plate, the tie bar area with a tape across the spacing, the screw tip if it is accessible, and the control screen.
- Read the machine hours and, if the control keeps one, the shot count.
- Say what resin it has been running. A press that has only run unfilled commodity resin is worth saying so about; one that has run glass-filled is priced differently and hiding it only delays the discount.
- List the auxiliaries you are willing to include — dryer, loader, chiller, granulator, robot, mold temperature controllers — because they are valued when named and ignored when not.
Selling a injection molding machine: common questions
Is an older hydraulic press still worth anything next to all-electric?
Yes, and the two sell to different buyers rather than competing. All-electric wins on energy and repeatability for tight-tolerance work, but a great deal of molding is done on hydraulic presses that are cheap to run and cheap to fix, and there are shops that specifically want them. What decides the price is condition and whether it can be demonstrated, not the drive type.
Should the robot, dryer and chiller go with the press?
Usually yes, if they were working as a cell. Auxiliaries already matched and commissioned to that press are worth more attached than sold separately, because the buyer is purchasing something that runs on arrival rather than a shopping list. Tell us what is included at the start and it goes into the number.
The screw and barrel are worn. Does that kill the sale?
No, but it must be said up front. Screw and barrel wear is normal, priced routinely, and a buyer who is told about it factors it in. A buyer who finds it after delivery does not, and that is the conversation that costs a seller far more than the disclosure would have.
We are closing a molding department. Can you take all of it?
Yes, and it is normally worth more as a floor than as a list. The presses, the auxiliaries, the mold racks and the material handling move on one removal plan, and the smaller equipment that nobody bothers to list separately gets valued instead of left behind.