Redeploy Before You Buy New
Equipment that one site no longer needs can often fill a need at another. Moving it between your own plants often costs far less than a new purchase and can avoid long lead times.
Investment recovery
Investment Recovery Services for Surplus Manufacturing Equipment
Our Resource Recovery Program helps manufacturers with idle equipment at many sites reuse what they can and sell to outside buyers. We give your plants one place to track surplus, offer it to your own sites first, and handle the sale, removal, and reporting.
1957Buying and selling used process and packaging equipment
1M+ sq ftStorage space in Cleveland, OH
8Languages our team supports
ZeroUpfront investment to start a program
Why a program
Why Manufacturers Run an Investment Recovery Program
Large manufacturers often have idle equipment at one plant while another plant buys the same machine new. A program connects the two, and it gives every site a simple way to get surplus off the floor.
Sell to Outside Buyers
After the internal window, and with your approval, we list each machine for outside sale through the channel that fits it: our inventory, consignment, a private sale, or an online auction. It stays open to your sites until it sells. For an auction or other scheduled sale, a site should claim it well before the sale closes. Because consignment and auction sell to the end buyer, they can return more for equipment in demand.
Ways to sell surplus equipmentSustainability and Reporting
Reusing equipment inside the company, or selling it to another manufacturer, keeps it in service and supports sustainability goals. Sales and disposals are documented for your compliance and ESG records.
How it works
How the Resource Recovery Program Works
Each program is built around your sites and your rules, with a dedicated point of contact from setup to settlement.
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Set Up Your Recovery Website
We build a dedicated recovery website for your company. Your sites send us details and photos of their surplus, and our team creates and maintains the listings. We help you set out how assets are categorized and how they move to redeployment or sale. We also visit your sites and train the teams who will use it.
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Inventory and Valuation
We help each site compile its surplus inventory, including critical specifications and photographs. We estimate each asset's value so you can decide whether it should be redeployed, sold, auctioned, or scrapped. When you need a formal appraisal, our Certified Equipment Appraisers provide one as a separate service.
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Redeploy Between Sites
Registered users at your other sites can request listed equipment for their own use. Your sites get the first look for a set period, typically 30, 60, or 90 days, and can still request an item after it is listed for outside sale, until it sells. If the item is in an auction or another scheduled sale, the request should come well before the sale closes. Idle equipment can also move to our Cleveland warehouse while it waits, which frees floor space and lets buyers inspect it.
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List for Outside Sale
With your approval, once the internal period ends, equipment is also listed for sale on fedequip.com. We buy it outright, sell it on consignment, sell a complete line through a private treaty sale, or run an online auction through The Proxio Group, our auction division, or a partner auction firm.
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Removal, Logistics, and Reporting
Our team or your site-approved contractors handle dismantling, rigging, crating, and shipping, including compliance for international moves. After each sale, you receive an itemized settlement statement. Program reports can show assets redeployed, estimated capital spending avoided, gross proceeds, fees and expenses, and net recovery. Equipment with no resale value is recycled or disposed of through vetted downstream partners, with chain-of-custody reporting.
Programs in practice
Recovery Programs at Work
Our longest program has run for more than 15 years. These are results from two programs we manage for global manufacturers.
A Global Pharmaceutical Program
This program covers a pharmaceutical manufacturer's sites around the world. It has redeployed hundreds of assets within the company's own network, saving millions in capital spending, and sold thousands more through auction, consignment, and direct sale.
A Chemical Manufacturer's Program
A tailored platform tracks surplus across the company's sites. Hundreds of assets have been redeployed internally, reducing new capital investment.
Scope
Equipment, Parts, and Sites the Program Covers
Production and processing equipment is the core of every program, from single machines to complete lines and plant utilities. Laboratory equipment is included too. Our Certified Equipment Appraisers appraise analytical, QC, and R&D instruments, and we sell them through a network of specialized buyers, including academic labs and contract research organizations.
The program also works in reverse. When a site needs equipment that no other site can spare, we source it from our inventory or our network. Obsolete and excess MRO spare parts can be sold through PharmParts, our parts division.
We have offices and representatives in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Puerto Rico, Europe, India, and Southeast Asia. Our team supports clients in English, Spanish, French, Dutch, German, Italian, Greek, and Hindi.
FAQ
Investment Recovery FAQs
Still have a question? Call 800-652-2466 or email sales@fedequip.com.
For a deeper look, download our Guide to Resource Recovery for Fortune 500 Companies.
What is investment recovery?
Investment recovery is the process of getting value back from equipment and materials a company no longer needs. It usually starts with reuse inside the company, then moves to resale, and ends with recycling for anything that has no remaining value.
Is asset recovery the same as investment recovery?
Yes. Asset recovery, investment recovery, and resource recovery all describe recovering value from surplus equipment and materials. Federal Equipment Company calls its managed service the Resource Recovery Program.
How is a recovery program different from a one-time equipment sale?
A one-time sale handles a single list or a single plant closure. A recovery program runs continuously across the sites you include in it, offers equipment to those sites first, and gives you one point of contact and one set of reports for all of them.
How is a Resource Recovery Program structured?
Programs require no upfront investment. Depending on the equipment and volume, Federal Equipment Company earns a commission on recovered value, sells equipment on consignment, buys selected assets outright, or combines these models. Selling expenses are deducted from the sale proceeds. Redeploying equipment from Federal Equipment Company's warehouse and arranging logistics carry fees, which are set in the program agreement.
How long do our own sites get before equipment is offered outside?
Each company sets its own window, typically 30, 60, or 90 days. After that, with your approval, the equipment is also listed for outside sale, and it stays available to your sites until it sells. If it is in an auction or another scheduled sale, a site should claim it well before the sale closes.
Do you run recovery programs outside the United States?
Yes. Federal Equipment Company has offices and representatives in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Puerto Rico, Europe, India, and Southeast Asia. Its team handles crating and compliance for international shipments and supports clients in eight languages.
Get started
Request a Free Program Consultation
Tell us how many sites you have, what kind of surplus they hold, and what you want the program to achieve. After you submit the form, we will contact you to walk through how a program would work for your company, and you can send any surplus lists then.
- No upfront investment
- Redeployment between your sites first
- A dedicated point of contact
Prefer to talk? Call 800-652-2466 (international +1 216-271-3500) or email sales@fedequip.com.
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