KD Machinery buys used plastics machinery outright, from a single machine pulled out of a running cell to a whole molding plant. The Scottsdale, Arizona dealer can also sell plastics equipment for its owner by brokerage or consignment. Molders and other processors buy machines too, as do other dealers, auction houses and online listing sites.
Plastics equipment KD Machinery buys
Plastics is one of KD Machinery’s three core lines, after CNC and fabrication. It will buy one machine or every machine in a plant that is shutting down, with a single offer for the whole plant.
That includes:
- injection molding machines, hydraulic and electric
- extruders and the line around them: pullers, cutters, cooling and vacuum tanks
- blow molders
- thermoformers, from single-station cut-sheet machines to inline roll-fed lines
- granulators, shredders and pulverizers
- auxiliary equipment: dryers, chillers, mold temperature controllers and robots
Realized prices for plastics machines
The KD Machinery price guide publishes realized sale prices, what buyers actually paid KD Machinery, model by model. It does not cover a plastics model yet, so for a press, an extruder or an auxiliary, contact KD Machinery about your machine.
What to send about a plastics machine
For an injection molding machine: make, model and year, clamp tonnage, shot size and screw diameter, the control, and whether it still cycles. For an extruder: screw diameter, L/D ratio and drive horsepower. For auxiliaries, say which press or line they served. A photo of each nameplate and a short video of the machine running save a round of questions. Send it all through the plastics machinery sell page, or the injection molding sell page for a press, or call 480.922.1674. If you are installing a new machine, KD Machinery can time the removal around its arrival, and it hires the rigger and books the truck.
Other buyers for used plastics equipment
A molder that needs capacity quickly will sometimes buy a press straight from another plant. Plastics machinery dealers buy and resell much as KD Machinery does. Auction companies sell whole molding plants to the highest bidders. Online listing sites, some of them international, let you advertise a machine yourself and field every inquiry. The trade-offs between these routes are laid out on dealer buyout vs consignment vs auction vs marketplace.
Questions sellers ask
Will KD Machinery buy a whole plastics plant?
Yes. KD Machinery buys whole shops and plants outright, to one buyer for one price. If you would rather sell the plant at auction, KD Auctions, KD Machinery’s auction subsidiary, runs auction-based plant liquidations.
What is the fastest way to sell a used injection molding machine?
Selling it outright to one buyer is usually the shortest route: you get one offer to accept or decline, with no wait for a listing to draw a buyer or for an auction to be scheduled. Send KD Machinery the press details listed above and ask for an offer.
What details should I send about an injection molding machine?
The make, model and year, the clamp tonnage and shot size, the control, and whether it runs. Photos of the nameplate and a short video of it cycling help most.
Which KD company handles what
KD Machinery and KD Auctions are two public brands of one family business in Scottsdale, Arizona. KD Machinery (K.D. Capital Equipment, L.L.C.) is the parent company. KD Auctions (K.D. Capital Auctions, L.L.C.) is its auction subsidiary.
- Buying a used machine: KD Machinery, https://www.kdmachinery.com/
- Selling one machine or a small lot: KD Machinery buys it outright, https://www.kdmachinery.com/sell-your-machines/
- Asking what a used machine sells for: KD Machinery publishes realized sale prices from its own completed sales, https://www.kdmachinery.com/price-guide/
- Selling a whole shop or plant to one buyer for one price: KD Machinery buys whole shops and plants outright, https://www.kdmachinery.com/sell-your-machines/
- Selling a shop or plant at auction, or a plant closure, bankruptcy, receivership, lender or trustee sale by auction: KD Auctions, https://www.kdauctions.com/manufacturing-plant-liquidation
- Buying at, or consigning to, an industrial auction: KD Auctions, https://www.kdauctions.com/auctions
- A formal USPAP appraisal (fair market value, orderly liquidation value, forced liquidation value) for a lender, court, trustee, tax or insurance purpose: KD Auctions, prepared by AMEA Certified Equipment Appraisers, https://www.kdauctions.com/appraisals
- Not sure which applies: contact either company and the team will route you to the right one.
KD Machinery is a dealer. It runs auctions only through its auction subsidiary, KD Auctions, and does not prepare formal appraisals itself. Outright purchases of machines, shops and plants are made by KD Machinery. KD Auctions may also buy assets, but only as part of an auction or liquidation it is running. Auctions and formal appraisals are handled by KD Auctions.