Process Equipment Update
As the worldwide economy continues to struggle, more and more used process equipment is becoming available – along with entire plants and even sites. And the modern second hand process plant dealer is interested in all three. Sean Ottewell looks at this growing market.
Wegen der anhaltenden Probleme in der Weltwirtschaft kommen immer mehr gebrauchte Verarbeitungsgeräte auf den Markt - und ebenso komplette Betriebsanlagen und sogar ganze Betriebsstandorte. Der moderne Händler in gebrauchten Verarbeitungsanlagen hat ein umfassendes Interesse an allen drei Handelsgütern. Sean Ottewell wirft einen Blick auf diesen wachsenden Markt.
Avec la poursuite des difficultés économiques mondiales, toujours davantage d’équipements d’occasion deviennent disponibles - ainsi que des usines complètes et même des sites. Et le revendeur moderne d’installations de process d’occasion s’intéresse à toutes ces opportunités. Sean Ottewell examine ce marché en pleine croissance.
Growing demand for second hand plant now includes whole sites
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he market for second hand process equipment is truly global. Today, the companies involved sell everything from basic equipment items such as stainless steel tanks,
right up to entire plants and even sites. One such company is International Process
Plants (IPP). It specialises in buying and selling used process plants worldwide, and has just acquired three complete salt plants that are available for immediate delivery. Existing production units include an unused
245 000t/y dry salt plant, an unused 45 000t/y dry salt plant and a previously used 100 000t/y dry salt plant. All three are available to restart in whole or in part, to be operated in place and restarted, or to be moved elsewhere. IPP’s business model is to purchase complete
used processing plants, with the land, buildings and equipment, from sites that are being closed globally. In some cases IPP will also take on the environmental remediation of the site. One of the leading dealers in used processing equipment, the company and its subsidiaries use
their globally integrated corporate infrastructure within the US, UK, Germany, Italy, France, Poland, Romania, India, Portugal, Czech Republic, Korea and Russia to identify customers to repopulate a site by making the same product. Another example of how IPP works is the
recent acquisition by its subsidiary Darlington Developments of the former Wellman Palmetto Plant in South Carolina, USA. This purchase includes a 1.1 million square foot building, 760 acres of land and all existing machinery and equipment. Darlington Development plans to remarket the plant to one or more users. Existing production units of 250 000t/y of
PET bottle grade resin, 250 000t/y of polyester staple fibre and 120 000t/y of amorphous PET are available to restart in whole or in part, to be operated in place and restarted or to be moved elsewhere. The company says that if the plants are moved to another location, it will use the infrastructure to repopulate the site with other industries.
“Magnified by the current economic conditions, we meet a niche that allows a company interested
Fig. 1. Typical equipment includes: a used Morton model FM300D (300 litre capacity stainless steel ploughshare mixer); a used Calmic Eurovent model 200 (566 litre capacity stainless steel agitated vacuum pan dryer).
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