American Plant and Equipment has been buying and selling industrial machinery since 1975. In that time the questions customers ask us have barely changed, and almost none of them are answered well anywhere on the open internet.
This is where we plan to answer them.
What we will publish here
Practical writing, aimed at people who have to make a decision about a machine or a plant. Three kinds of post, roughly:
- Buying and selling guides. How to read a listing, what to ask a seller, what an inspection should cover, and where the money usually goes in a used equipment purchase.
- Getting equipment running. Power, utilities, foundations, rigging, reassembly and commissioning. The work that happens after the deal closes and before the line makes product.
- How the trade actually works. Consignment, brokerage, appraisals, orderly liquidations, and the practical shape of moving machinery across borders.
Who writes it
The company’s own people, drawing on the work in front of them. Our president, Victor LeBron, has worked in industrial machinery since 1970, starting in textile dyeing and finishing and widening into nonwovens, mattress and innerspring equipment, medical textiles, food and confectionery lines, film, recycling, foam converting and complete production plants. Our shop rebuilds, disassembles, reassembles, packs and ships this equipment, so what you read here is written by people who have had their hands on it.
What we will not publish
No pricing, and no details about individual machines beyond what our inventory pages already show. Those are conversations to have with our sales team, where we can give you a straight answer for your specific situation rather than a number that will be wrong for you.
Start a conversation
If a post raises a question about your own project, the fastest route to an answer is to send us a message. If you would rather work through a problem properly, we also offer one-to-one consulting sessions with Victor.