When a facility goes dark, we step in before anything is lost.

Grantham Exchange manages the full decommissioning cycle — from Swiss machining cells and fabrication departments to rubber and silicone lines — converting idle assets into realized value for owners, lenders, and stakeholders who cannot afford to leave money on the floor.

Grantham Exchange enters a shuttered or restructuring facility with one objective: recover maximum value from every asset on the floor before a single machine depreciates further on an idle pad. That discipline shapes every service we offer and the sequence in which we offer them. The engagement begins with valuation. Our appraisal work produces documented fair market, orderly liquidation, and distressed sale figures for the full production floor — Swiss turning centers and multi-spindle screw machines, fabrication cells and press brake lines, rubber and silicone compounding and curing equipment, die cast machines and trim presses, CNC machining and turning equipment, metal stamping presses and progressive die lines, injection molding presses and hot runner systems, blow mold machinery, extrusion lines and extruders, thermoforming equipment, rotational mold and rotomold carousel systems, EDM sinker and wire machines, cylindrical and surface grinding equipment, automation and auxiliary support systems, tool & die shop assets, and complete mold and tooling inventories. Those numbers are defensible — built to satisfy lenders, courts, bankruptcy trustees, or a buyer's own due diligence team. Once the valuation is on paper, Grantham Exchange structures the disposition path that the numbers actually support. For sellers who need a defined outcome and a fast close, we make outright purchases with committed capital — no contingencies, no waiting on downstream buyers to materialize. When the asset mix or timeline points toward a different approach, we run consignment programs that place individual machines and complete departments directly with qualified buyers across our North American reach and our active global network. Auctions and coordinated liquidations are part of the toolkit as well: when a plant closure, receivership, or estate situation demands a hard endpoint and a transparent recovery, we manage the entire event from catalog to final settlement. For transactions that extend beyond the equipment itself, Grantham Exchange handles complete business sales and turnkey facility exits. We manage the transaction so that contracts, real estate, and M&E move together under a single coordinated structure. Neither the seller nor the buyer is left navigating three separate closings with three parties who have never spoken to each other. The decommissioning model also runs in reverse. Manufacturers expanding capacity or rebuilding a department come to Grantham Exchange to source vetted pre-owned equipment — specific machines, complete cells, or full production lines located and negotiated on their behalf. Every asset we present has been evaluated against the same standard we apply when we are on the selling side.

How we work

Who we are

Grantham Exchange was built around a premise most equipment firms avoid: the moment a manufacturing facility goes quiet is the moment the assets inside it are most vulnerable to mispricing, mishandling, and missed opportunity. Decommissioning is not a byproduct of what we do — it is the operating model. We are organized, staffed, and capitalized specifically to move into facilities at the end of their production life and extract full value from what remains. That focus produces a different kind of expertise than a generalist dealer develops. We have seen what happens to rubber and silicone compounding lines left idle for six months, what a well-maintained Swiss turning cell is actually worth versus what a distressed seller is tempted to accept, and why the sequencing of an auction relative to a private placement can mean a six-figure difference in net recovery. Those distinctions are not theory — they are the accumulated result of working decommissioning engagements from the first walkthrough to the final settlement check. We do not fabricate credentials with invented histories or headcounts. What we bring is a methodology — appraise honestly, structure the disposition around what the numbers support, and stay accountable to the outcome rather than the commission. The clients who rely on Grantham Exchange are owners, lenders, trustees, and acquirers who need a single point of accountability when a facility's production chapter is closing. We are that party.