Projects
Plant Decommissioning
When a plant closes, the electrical distribution is usually the single largest pool of recoverable value in the building — and the part most often handed to a scrap contractor by mistake.
Whole-site scope- Offer
- Same business day
- Payment
- Before load-out
- Removal
- Our crews, our rigging
- Insurance
- COI on request
- Coverage
- All 50 states
- Desk
- 954-740-1983
Plate 01
Why the electrical scope gets undervalued
Structural demolition contractors price a building by the ton. Under that logic a 4000 A switchgear lineup, a bank of dry-type transformers and twelve MCC sections are just steel and copper weight.
But that same lineup has a resale market of plants waiting many months for new equipment. The gap between scrap value and resale value on a mid-size plant's electrical distribution is routinely the largest single line in a recovery budget.
Plate 02
What we inventory first
Service entrance and main switchgear, unit substations, transformers of every construction, MCC lineups, panelboards and distribution boards, bus duct with its plugs, standby generators and transfer switches, VFDs and soft starters, load banks, and the tray and conduit cable.
We produce the inventory whether or not you sell to us. You keep it for your own budgeting or for competitive bids.
Plate 03
Sequencing inside a real closure
Production stops, then utilities are isolated, then abatement runs where required, then the electrical recovery, then structural demolition. Our crews plan around the trades already on the critical path.
On phased closures we work line by line, buying and removing the gear feeding the lines that have already stopped while the rest of the plant continues to run.
Plate 04
What the paperwork looks like
An itemized offer, an addendum process for anything discovered on site, bills of lading for every load, and where the client's environmental group requires it, documentation on transformer oil handling and disposition of non-recoverable material.
Payment is per load-out on multi-week projects rather than a single payment at the end, which keeps the recovery on your books as it happens.
Questions
Frequently asked
Will you take one item or do you only do whole plants?
Both. One transformer on a pad is a legitimate call. So is a complete plant electrical lot with substations, MCC lineups, hundreds of bus plugs and miles of tray cable.
Do you charge for removal?
No. On any lot with recoverable value the removal cost is priced into the offer and you receive a net number. If a lot is genuinely worthless — badly burned gear, scrap-only aluminum panels in a bad location — we will tell you that instead of inventing a number.
What do you do with the equipment?
Reusable gear is tested, refurbished where needed, and resold into the used-equipment market — often to plants waiting many months on new switchgear. What cannot be reused is separated into copper, aluminum, steel and electronics streams.
Do you handle transformers with oil?
Yes, including PCB-suspect units. Oil is sampled and handled to the applicable federal and state rules, and you receive documentation for your records.
Can you work nights, weekends or during a shutdown?
Yes. Most industrial electrical removals happen inside a shutdown window, so off-hours and weekend work is normal for our crews.
How do you decide what something is worth?
Ratings and configuration first, then how sellable the specific nameplate is, then condition and documentation, then the real cost of getting it out of your building. The last item is the one sellers consistently underestimate.
Form 1 — Request for Offer
Get a Written Offer
Send the asset list, or just describe what is in the room. We come back the same business day with a written, itemized offer.
Faster: call or text 954-740-1983
Email an asset list to electricalequipmentbuyers@gmail.com
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