We have bought and sold 1,079 plastics 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 216 plastics machines listed right now, so we know what the market is paying this month.
Get an offer on your plastics 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 plastics machine are enough to start.
Why sell your plastics machine to KD Machinery
A molding plant is a system, not a row of presses, and this is where sellers lose the most money without realizing it. The press is the obvious asset, but it does not run without the dryer, the chiller, the granulator, the conveying and the robot, and all of that was specified for it. It shows in what we have handled: alongside the press names, Conair appears on 35 machines, and Conair does not build presses at all. Toshiba is on 66, Toyo on 63, Cincinnati Milacron on 48 and Haitian on 42. When a plant is broken up the auxiliaries are usually the part that gets scrapped or given away, and they are worth real money to the buyer who is taking the presses.
What we buy
Injection molding machines hydraulic, electric and hybrid, blow molding and rotational molding machines, extruders and complete extrusion lines, thermoformers, granulators and shredders, dryers, chillers, conveying and blending systems, mold temperature controllers, part-removal robots, and complete molding cells. One press or a whole plant.
What decides what a used plastics machine is worth
- What goes with it. The dryer, chiller, granulator, conveying and robot were sized for the press, and sold together the buyer can run on arrival rather than shopping for the rest.
- The auxiliaries in their own right, which sellers consistently undervalue. Conair alone is on 35 of the machines we have handled, and this equipment has a real market of its own rather than being a giveaway with the press.
- The make and where it stands. Toshiba is on 66 of ours, Toyo on 63, Cincinnati Milacron on 48 and Haitian on 42, and this is a category where no single name dominates the way it does elsewhere.
- Whether it has been run recently, and whether it can be shown running. On plastics equipment this matters more than on most machines because so much of the wear is invisible.
- Screw and barrel condition, and any documented replacement. This is the most expensive thing to put right and the first thing an experienced buyer asks about.
- The controller generation and whether it is still supported, which decides who is comfortable buying it.
- Molds, mold handling and the tooling. Say early what is included and what is not, because assumptions here go wrong late and expensively.
How to sell a plastics machine
Plastics equipment is bought on proof it still runs and on knowing exactly what comes with it:
- Run the machine if you can, film a full cycle, and keep a shot from it.
- Photograph the controller showing hours and the machine data screen.
- Write the auxiliary list before anything is moved: dryer, chiller, granulator, conveying, robot and controllers, with makes and sizes.
- Say what has been done to the screw and barrel, and when, rather than leaving it to be discovered.
- Decide early which molds and tooling are included, and label what is staying.
Selling a plastics machine: common questions
The dryers, chillers and granulators are old. Is it worth including them?
Almost always, yes. They are worth more attached to the presses they were sized for than sitting on their own, and to a buyer commissioning a line they remove a procurement problem. Old and working is a normal condition for this equipment and it is priced accordingly. What loses money is scrapping it, which happens routinely and is usually a decision made in a hurry.
We are closing a plant. Should we sell the presses first?
Not before you have the whole list in front of you. Presses are the easiest part to sell, so selling them first leaves you holding the part that is hardest to place and removes the reason a buyer would have taken it. Give us the full inventory including auxiliaries and molds and we will tell you what should go together and what is better sold separately.
The screw and barrel are worn but the machine runs. How much does that cost me?
Less if you say so than if the buyer finds it. Wear is expected on a used machine and there is a known cost to putting it right, which an experienced buyer can price. What they cannot price is a seller who did not mention it, and that doubt costs more than the repair. If you have any record of when it was last replaced, that is worth more than an opinion about its condition.
Do you take extrusion and thermoforming, or only molding?
We take both, along with blow molding, rotational molding, granulators and the auxiliary equipment on its own. Molding is the largest part of what we handle simply because it is the largest part of the market, not because it is the limit of what we buy.