1. Industry & Trade

Metal Fab Machine Markets

AMEA: Association of Machinery and Equipment Appraisers

Trade association for professional appraisers of machinery and equipment. There are over 300 members globally. The membership directory is available here.

DoveBid

The leading B2B on-line marketplace for selling capital assets. DoveBid has conducted over 3,000 industry specific auctions throughout the world selling over 10,000,000 individual lots. Buyers around the world have purchased over $5 billion in assets. Serves top industry clients.

e-MachineTool.com

Online metalworking industry portal & distributor. Compare brands, select and buy everything from cutting tools to new or used CNC machinery. Great Job Shop supplier database, machinery marketplace & discussion forums.

EAMTM: European Association of Machine Tool Merchants

European association of over 300 dealers of used machine tools. The membership database, with links to member Web sites is here.

eBay: Metalworking Equipment

That's right, ebay! An excellent auction site to buy and sell new or used metalworking equipment. There are currently over 10,000 items being auctioned right now. Search by keyword for the machinery you need, or liquidate your surplus equipment fast.

Industry Deals

Industrial auction site for trading surplus used or refurbished machinery. Sections include metalworking & machine tools, material processing, construction, transportation equipment and more.

Locator Online

Locator is the largest directory of used machinery. The catalog and Web site offers a place for US machinery dealers to publish listings and ads of used machines & equipment for metalworking and mfg.

MachineTools.com

Global online marketplace for machine tools and related goods and services. Buy & Sell new or used machine tools, find dealers and distributors, participate in online auctions and get industry news.

Machine Tools Online

Comprehensive site dedicated to all aspects of the machine tool industry. Offers machinery buyer's guides, tooling sources, used equipment marketplace, supplier lists, news, product reviews, career center, training information and much more.

MDNA: Machinery Dealers National Association

The nonprofit trade association of 500+ machinery dealers and members around the world who trade in pre-owned capital equipment. The MDNA buyers guide is here.

Directory of Steel Equipment

Steel Foundry of America offers an excellent source list of steel manufacturing equipment from furnaces, casting and rolling lines, galvanizing, plating and pickling lines, scrap processing, material handling and even raw material.

Prestige Equipment Corp.

Dealer of pre-owned manufacturing equipment for metalworking, with warehouses in Chicago and Philidelphia, USA. Search their online inventory database.

Steellinks.com

Search engine style Web directory dedicated to the steel industry. Find steel industry plants, raw materials, processing equipment, suppliers, product and services. Contains over 10,000 links to help you find the supplier you need.

SurplusRecord.com

Since 1924, Surplus Record has been the leading independent directory of surplus, new & used industrial equipment, machinery, and machine tools, listing over 54,000 industrial assets. Over 1,100 businesses list with the online service. Database updated daily.

Techspex - Machine Tool Database

Machine tool site which makes the analysis, selection and buying process easier. Has a large searchable database of machine tool manufacturers, dealers, and tooling suppliers. Get details on over 5,000 models and obtain quotes automatically by e-mail.

Usedequipment.net

Chicago based dealer of used equipment for recycling, scrap processing and manufacturing. Bailers, flateners, conveyors, crushers, furnaces, granulators, shears, shredders and other processing equipment.

Van Deilen Industries, Inc.

VDI is a U.S. dealer of used production equipment for the steel and aluminum industries. Offers a wide range of rolling mills, strip processing lines, coil processing equipment, presses, flateners, levelers, annealing and pickling lines and much more.

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