Zymergen, recognized for its cutting-edge research and development in the life sciences sector, faced a critical challenge requiring EquipNets assistance.

A global healthcare company needed specific equipment for a project at their Ridgefield, New Jersey facility. The project involved the expedited procurement of a renester machine for the renesting of 1 ml long syringes. Facing a tight deadline, the Global Lead Buyer contacted EquipNet to explore alternative procurement options for the necessary equipment.

Baxter, a leading global healthcare company, embarked on a significant asset redeployment and sales project at their Opelika, Alabama facility. Renowned for its medical products, Baxter needed to efficiently manage the sale and redeployment of various high-value industrial equipment as part of their operational restructuring.

Grupo Lala, a leading company of dairy products found itself with a surplus of equipment that needed to be efficiently liquidated. This surplus included a diverse array of machinery critical to dairy manufacturing operations. The challenge was two-fold: ensuring a swift turnaround while securing optimal value for the surplus assets.

This laboratory faced the need to close one of it’s operation plants in Colombia, With a substantial inventory of valuable yet idle assets, the client sought to generate passive income by selling this equipment. Initially, they projected an income of $45,000 from these sales, but they were unsure how to effectively reach potential buyers and maximize their returns.

Our client faced the challenge of effectively assessing, pricing, and removing hundreds of diverse surplus assets housed within one of its North American facilities alongside seeing a return on investment. Due to the complexity of the removal, the extensive amount of assets the client turned to EquipNet for assistance.

GSK, a long term client of EquipNet’s, reached out for assistance managing and selling surplus due to the end of production for a sterile IV drug, Augmentin, and the closure of oral manufacturing of amoxycillin syrups at a facility in the UK.

Heineken signed a Master Service Agreement with EquipNet to assist in managing and selling its surplus equipment across a global portfolio, including a complete site clear out for a Lagunitas facility located in Azusa, California.

All operations within a biotechnology company were being shut down, resulting in a range of lab assets that needed to be cleaned, removed, and sold. The seller had no process in place to properly prepare the assets for disposition and EquipNet’s team had to manage all needs, including the inventory, cleaning, decommissioning, transportation, marketing, and sales of the assets.

The client contacted EquipNet for assistance with a facility closure in Goleta, California that needed to be complete within a 4-month timeframe. Equipment featured a range of R&D assets, including microscopes, lab ovens, flow hoods, balances, as well as medical device, injection molding, and machine shop items.

The client needed assistance with a multi-phase facility closure that consisted of two buildings at the same site. With over 800 assets to manage and sell, and a one-year timeframe that ended up being cut short, EquipNet needed to act efficiently in order to successfully gain maximum return for the client.

This client originally sought out an auctioneer company to help sell a cookie production line from a facility in Colombia. When the company was unsuccessful in its efforts, the auctioneer directly reached out to EquipNet for expert assistance. 

The client planned to close a facility that manufactured pharmaceutical solid dose products. With a deadline in eight months, EquipNet had to ensure the right plan was in place to sell off the equipment and provide the client with the appropriate financial return.

This is an ongoing project that we have been working on at the client’s facility in Mexico City. When the company has surplus, the equipment is sent to EquipNet’s warehouses in Monterrey and Toluca to be placed on consignment. 

The client had a number of lower value assets along with a couple of higher value items that were surplus to its ongoing operations. The company did not have any strict deadline, but was looking for complete sell-through and to maximize its return. 

The client’s facility in Vallejo, Mexico City decided to conduct an efficiency project, which resulted in the decommissioning of multiple lines of manufacturing and packaging equipment, as well as some utilities equipment and other assets. 

The client was originally working with a third party auctioneer to sell its surplus equipment from a site closure in Escuintla, Guatemala. When the event did not yield the desired results the company was looking for, the client reached out to EquipNet.

The client originally purchased an Oystar IWKA Inline Tube Filler from a project we were working on with another client. Once the client shipped the equipment to the site, the company’s plans to produce the new product fell through.

When the client realized an opportunity to generate return on some surplus assets, it came to EquipNet for help. The company did not have a deadline to sell the equipment by, but an estimated 12 months was used as an appropriate timeline.

EquipNet is constantly working on asset disposition projects with multiple clients across the globe to help companies buy, sell, and manage their surplus. This case study outlines how EquipNet was able to help our long-term client buying and selling. 

One of our previous project clients recommended our services to Synta Pharmaceuticals to help with closing a facility consisting of three different buildings. The entire facility needed full clearance and contained an array of over 400 pieces of R&D equipment.

The client was in the process of consolidating its R&D facility in Europe and determined that the majority of the equipment in its Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium facility was surplus to the ongoing operations, leading it to approach EquipNet for help.

Mid-year, this client notified EquipNet of a full site closure for its facility in Rancho Dominguez, California. With only a two week removal window and a requested clearance deadline in less than five months, EquipNet needed to act quickly. 

The client was re-vamping its facility in New York and was switching from manufacturing equipment to co-packers to increase efficiency and improve workflow. The client was seeking an all-inclusive and proactive solution to sell many assets. 

An overview of four different projects with EquipNet, including a leading device engineering facility, global healthcare provider, global pharmaceutical conglomerate, and an industrial manufacturing company. 

The client’s in-house EquipNet project manager realized an opportunity for a large cleanout of surplus medical device equipment at its headquarters.

This client reached out for assistance with a two-phase asset disposition project at a facility in Cleveland, Mississippi, featuring sterile fill/finish equipment. 

Becton Dickinson’s Seattle facility was closing, consisting of two buildings with over 100 assets including Mori Seiki, Haas, and Fadal CNC Machining Centers, Tool Room and Support equipment.

This client reached out to EquipNet for assistance selling an unused Optima Syringe Filling Line. The equipment was purchased new, but was no longer needed and had been sitting idle in the OEM’s facility.

Early in the year, the client reached out to EquipNet requesting assistance with a facility closure in Staffanstorp, Sweden involving over 100 assets. This facility had been manufacturing a raw ingredient used for insulin.

The client was closing a 50,000 sq. ft. San Francisco lab facility that housed 500 surplus lab and analytical assets. The multi-building site needed to be cleared out within a 45-day timeframe, leading the company to approach EquipNet for assistance.

The client reached out to EquipNet for assistance closing the entire telecommunications division of its company, which included over 20 facilities spanning across the globe. Facilities included locations in over five different countries.

This client reached out to us for assistance closing a large paper coating facility within a three month timeframe. The inventory consisted of approximately 1,000 assets, including four very large paper coating lines, as well as paper converting equipment.

The client asked EquipNet to handle the complete closure of a skin care product manufacturing facility in Cayey, Puerto Rico with a nine-month deadline. The facility, which had approximately 2,500 assets, was still an active manufacturing site at the time.

EquipNet was asked to facilitate the complete facility clearance of Novartis’ Suffern, New York manufacturing facility. The goal was to provide an initial inventory of all high-end machinery and internally redeploy as many assets as Novartis required.

The client suffered a setback when one of their facility’s cap elevator unexpectedly stopped working properly. They reached out to the OEM in an attempt to find a speedy resolution to the problem, as they did not want to endure a prolonged delay in their facility’s activities because of this mishap.

In the final stages of shutting down its Norwood, Massachusetts lab facility, the client managed to address all but one of the critical steps to successfully conducting a facility closure. With a one month deadline looming, 150 surplus lab assets needed to be cleared out of the facility.

With a looming site closure on the horizon for a facility in New Jersey, this company needed to come up with a way to dispose of its lab equipment (HPLC’s, Mass Specs, NMR’s, GC Systems), as well as nearly everything else under the roof.

The client presented EquipNet with an aggressive requirement to clear multiple facilities of surplus Electronic Test and Measurement equipment. With only a few months until the mandatory deadline, EquipNet had to act fast.

Clariant planned to demolish a facility in Mount Holly, North Carolina. According to initial estimates from demolition contractors, the company would expect to pay $1 million to demolish the plant. Under these plans, Clariant staff would have to spend an enormous amount of time and money managing the project, so the company came to EquipNet for help.

When the company decided to refresh the technology of its entire field sales organization, EquipNet was called upon to manage the disposition of over 8,000 tablets, peripherals, and accessories. EquipNet provided logistics for inventory pick-ups at the client’s location and analyzed the inventory to determine the best disposition channel for each individual item.

The client reached out to EquipNet for assistance with a full laboratory closure in Cambridge, Massachusetts. With a strict deadline to clear the facility, EquipNet needed to act quickly and efficiently to ensure the ideal result for the client.

Over time, the client had amassed a substantial surplus inventory but had to pay monthly expenses to relocate and store them in a local warehouse. Although the expense was minor, the client realized it was unnecessary and reached out to EquipNet for guidance.

The client contacted EquipNet with an urgent need for an equipment part for a Kikusui press. Its current press broke down during the middle of a production run, and it needed to be replaced ASAP or the company would suffer a significant money loss.

The client elected to shut down a 1.2 million square foot facility, one of its largest, and needed it cleared out prior to the client’s shutdown date. The company engaged EquipNet to assist with the removal and liquidation of the assets.

The client reached out to EquipNet for help selling two pieces of idle equipment that were taking up valuable space in the university’s research facilities. The equipment included two high-end Mass Spectrometers, one Micromass Q TOF Premiere and one Thermo LQT Orbitrap.

In July of 2013, this client enlisted the services of EquipNet to aid in the disposition of approximately 300 assets located within its facility in Carlyle, Illinois. Equipment located at this site that needed to be sold included various types of packaging machines, injection molders, and more.

In this ongoing project that began in 2014, the client had a warehouse full of surplus assets at its Broomfield location and was unsure of the equipment’s fair market value. The client also noted that there was additional surplus still in use at the site.

The client requested EquipNet’s help to inventory and sell all equipment located in one of its temporary storage areas within six months. The equipment consisted mostly of MRO/spare parts and six high-value pieces of processing equipment.

A client determined that it would need to drastically cut manufacturing costs at its API processing facility located in County Wicklow, Ireland. With this large-scale downsizing taking place, the company sought the assistance of EquipNet to help find a final disposition for an unused, high-end Agitated Vacuum Pan Dryer.

Our client had a facility in Clinton, CT for manufacturing hair sprays, deodorants, and other various personal care products which the company was planning to shut down in multiple phases. The client needed to achieve clearance on all assets at the site in less than a year, leaving a tight deadline with a magnitude of work.

This project called for the clearing of 10 very large silos from a Bayer facility in Banwol, South Korea. From the start, EquipNet knew this would be a difficult project to succeed with, so initially low expectations were set and the client was notified of this.

The client had twenty (20) Auto Syringe Infusion Pumps and six (6) Vital Signs Patient Monitors that it no longer had use for. Since the equipment was obsolete the client engaged EquipNet to assist with the liquidation of the equipment.

The client enlisted EquipNet’s services to assist in the disposition of approximately 150 assets at its closing Hammersmith, UK facility. Prior to shut down, the facility had been performing human nuclear medicine trials and therefore equipment included PET scanners, various lab, and maintenance equipment.

The client was in need of an ongoing asset management solution to help manage and sell over 25,000 pieces of surplus MRO equipment and spare parts at a facility in Rahway, New Jersey. This facility consists of multiple buildings, and featured a wide range of equipment that needed to be managed.

A long-term client of EquipNet’s reached out seeking assistance with selling surplus medical device assets at the company’s facility in Mexico. The client requested clearance within three months; with such a short window to sell the assets, EquipNet’s Specialists recommended a Dedicated Sealed Bid auction event.

A multinational medical devices and health care company reached out to EquipNet for assistance with a complete facility clearance within a 3 week time period. It was a big challenge due to the tight timeframe and 40,000 sq ft to clear, but our team was diligent in finding the right solution for our customer.

A leading drug development company with facilities across the globe reached out to EquipNet for assistance with a massive clearance task at its Union, New Jersey facility. Some larger and more complicated assets, as well as a stop-and-go nature of the disposition, created a challenge that EquipNet was ready to handle.

The client, a leading drug developer with a global presence, determined that it would no longer need a 300,000-foot facility. After trying to sell it as-is and disappointed by not getting any serious offers, the company reached out to EquipNet for help as it realized that a full facility clearance would be needed before any further steps.

The client is a global manufacturer that focuses on advanced specialty materials and complex components for industries including aerospace and defense, oil and gas, and medical. With a four-month timeframe, the client approached EquipNet for help selling and removing over 4,000 assets across three plants.

The client reached out to EquipNet to request asset management services for a full site closure in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The company wished to maximize the value recovered from its equipment, which included CNC Machining Centers, Milling Machines, and more, within a timeframe of only seven months. 

A turnkey solution was needed for a complete closure of a Personal and Homecare client’s beauty manufacturing facility in Hünfeld, Germany, which was home to over a thousand high-quality, late model equipment assets that now had to be inventoried and tagged before being sold within the requested deadline.