Manufacturing in Kentucky
Kentucky is assembly country. Toyota builds cars at Georgetown, Ford runs two plants in Louisville, General Motors makes the Corvette at Bowling Green, and the bourbon industry keeps a large stainless and process trade alongside them.
What we buy and sell in Kentucky
Assembly at that scale pulls in stamping presses, welding and joining equipment, machining centers and the tooling that feeds them, and distilling adds tanks, mills and heavy stainless work. Sell it to us for cash, offered the same day and paid in full ahead of removal after inspection, or list it on brokerage at no cost and pay us only if we perform.
Selling and buying machinery in Kentucky: common questions
We are a tier two automotive supplier and lost our contract. How fast can equipment move?
Faster than most sellers expect, provided the machines can still be demonstrated. Losing a contract is a normal event in this market and does not mark the equipment down by itself; what marks it down is a shop that waits until the power is off and the building handed back. Cash purchase can be agreed the same day after inspection, and payment comes before anything is removed. Talk to us while the machines are still running.
Our presses are tied to dies for parts nobody else makes. Does that hurt the sale?
Only if the two are treated as one thing. The press is a general asset with a broad market; the dies are specific and often belong to the customer rather than to you, so establish ownership before anything is offered. Sold separately the press reaches everybody, and the dies go to whoever takes the part over, if anyone. Bundling them is what narrows the buyer pool unnecessarily.
A distillery is replacing equipment. Is there a market for used stainless of that size?
There is a real one, and it reaches well past distilling. Tanks, mash tuns, mills, pumps, heat exchangers and stainless piping are wanted by brewers, food processors and chemical plants, and sanitary construction holds value because it cannot be improvised. Large vessels are a freight exercise as much as a sale, so send capacities, dimensions and how they are to come out of the building along with the list.
How does a river or barge location change things?
It widens options rather than complicating them. Equipment too large or heavy for a comfortable road move sometimes travels better by water, and a site with barge access is genuinely useful for the biggest pieces. For ordinary machines it makes no difference at all. Mention it if you have it, because it occasionally turns an awkward removal into a straightforward one, and it costs nothing to know.
Buying or selling machinery in Kentucky? Call KD Machinery at 480-922-1674 or tell us what you have.
We also buy and sell machinery in Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee, Illinois, Virginia.