Manufacturing in Ohio
Ohio manufacturing runs in corridors. Honda builds at Marysville, East Liberty and Anna, Ford's Lima Engine Plant and the Joint Systems Manufacturing Center both sit in Lima, Cincinnati holds a machine tool and plastics heritage, Akron is polymer country and Toledo assembles Jeeps.
What we buy and sell in Ohio
Ohio sells us what a tier one automotive base and a polymer base retire: transfer lines and dedicated machining cells, vertical and horizontal machining centers, gear equipment, presses, and injection molding machines with their dryers, chillers and granulators. Both routes are open. A same day cash offer, paid in full after inspection and ahead of removal, or a brokerage listing that costs nothing and only pays us if we perform.
Selling and buying machinery in Ohio: common questions
We lost an automotive program and the cell is idle. What are the options?
A dedicated cell built around one program is the hardest thing to sell as a unit, so it is usually worth more separated into its individual machines, robots, conveyors and gauging. Before anything moves, get the machines documented while they are still powered and can be run under load, because a cell that has been dark for a year is a much harder sell. From there you can take a cash offer on the whole group or list the pieces on brokerage, and there is no reason it has to be all one or all the other.
What do you need to know about an injection molding machine before listing it?
Clamp tonnage and shot size first, then the make, model, year and control generation, because on molding machines the control is often what dates the asset rather than the frame. Tell us whether it is hydraulic, hybrid or all electric, the tie bar spacing, the platen dimensions and the screw diameter. Auxiliaries change the picture considerably. A press offered with its own dryer, hopper loader, mold temperature controller, granulator and robot is a working cell to a buyer, where a bare press is a project.
Can a buyer inspect a machine before purchase, and who arranges the trucking?
Inspection before purchase is normal and we encourage it. A serious buyer will want to see the machine under power, watch it move through its axes, and often bring a rigger or a service technician along. We coordinate access with the seller so this happens without disrupting production. Freight is arranged as part of the sale, with rigging out, loading and transport handled together rather than left to the buyer to piece out. Ohio sits on the I-70, I-71 and I-75 corridors, which keeps outbound trucking straightforward in most directions.
We are consolidating two Ohio plants into one. How do we deal with the machines we will not keep?
Start with a list and a decision on each line: keep, sell, or scrap. Most consolidations over-scrap, because the deadline pressure makes the scrap bid look simple. Get the sellable machines identified before the move date and there is usually time to run both routes at once, taking cash offers on the equipment that has to be gone and listing the rest on brokerage while the plant winds down. Our aim is to sell inside sixty days, so a consolidation with a few months of runway generally has room.
Buying or selling machinery in Ohio? Call KD Machinery at 480-922-1674 or tell us what you have.
We also buy and sell machinery in Michigan, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Kentucky.