Manufacturing in Wisconsin
Wisconsin builds heavy things. Oshkosh Corporation and Pierce Manufacturing make trucks and fire apparatus, Case IH builds tractors at Racine, Mercury Marine casts and machines engines at Fond du Lac, and the Fox River Valley from Neenah to Green Bay remains paper country.
What we buy and sell in Wisconsin
Big work needs big iron, so here we trade horizontal boring mills, large horizontal machining centers, heavy turning lathes for mill rolls, plate rolls, long bed press brakes and stainless fabrication gear dairy plants depend on. 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 Wisconsin: common questions
Do you deal in the large capacity machines a Milwaukee area heavy equipment shop runs?
That is a core part of what we handle. Shops feeding truck, tractor, engine and generator builders across Waukesha, Racine and Sheboygan counties run horizontal boring mills, gantry and bridge mills, large horizontal centers, big bore lathes and heavy plate equipment. Machines that size need accurate weights, floor loadings, foundation details and disassembly notes before anyone can quote freight honestly. Send those with the specification and we can move quickly, either with an outright cash purchase or by listing it and marketing it while it keeps earning for you.
A paper mill in the Fox Valley is shutting down. What equipment is actually worth something?
Mill closures around Appleton, Neenah, Kaukauna and Green Bay usually release more than the paper machine. The maintenance shop is often the valuable part: heavy engine lathes and roll grinders sized for mill rolls, large radial drills, boring mills, presses and welding equipment, much of it well maintained because downtime was expensive. Cranes, motors, drives and stainless process equipment carry value too. Give us an inventory and photographs of the shop and we will tell you plainly which pieces we would buy and which are better brokered.
We build stainless equipment for dairy and food plants. Do you take that kind of fabrication gear?
Yes. Food and dairy fabrication across Wisconsin runs plate and sheet rolls, shears, press brakes, tube benders, orbital and TIG welding sets, polishing and passivation equipment, and CNC plasma or laser cutting tables. Sanitary work keeps machines in good condition because the product demands it, and that shows up in resale. If you are replacing a laser or a brake and want the old one gone the week the new one lands, the cash route fits. If timing is loose, list it and keep cutting on it until it sells.
Does a Wisconsin winter change how a sale or a removal is scheduled?
It changes the removal, not the sale. Frozen or salted lots, snow on the dock apron and short daylight all slow a rigging crew, and a machine that has sat cold needs care on the way lubrication and coolant are handled before it is run again at the other end. We schedule around it rather than pretending it is not there. Inspection and payment still come before anything moves, and on a brokered machine the marketing carries on through the winter regardless of when the truck can get in.
Buying or selling machinery in Wisconsin? Call KD Machinery at 480-922-1674 or tell us what you have.
We also buy and sell machinery in Illinois, Minnesota, Michigan, Iowa.