Used Additional Industrial Equipment for Sale

Additional equipment is the catch-all for machines that sit around a production floor and do not belong in one process family. Plastics assembly and welding covers ultrasonic welders, heat stakers and dispensing systems that join molded parts after they leave the press. A 3D printer, plastic or metal, is a prototyping or short-run tool, not a substitute for the molding machine beside it.

Converting and laminating covers laminators, coating lines and slitter rewinders for film, sheet and web. Industrial ovens and heat treating covers batch ovens, furnaces and induction heating used to cure, dry or harden a part the process machine already made. Packaging and labeling covers stretch wrappers, labelers, palletizers and case tapers at the end of the line.

Screws, barrels and spare parts are the wear items for an extruder or a molding machine: the screw, the barrel, and the lots of components that come out of a closure. Shop and facility equipment is the furniture of the building: workbenches, cabinets, racks, ladders, carts and fume hoods. Tooling and workholding is vises, chucks, bar feeders and tool holders, the pieces a machining center needs before it can cut.

None of these groups replace the press, the extruder or the machining center. They are the surrounding steps that let that machine ship a finished part instead of a half-done one. Buying used additional equipment is usually a hunt for one of these groups, because a cell is short a welder, a wrapper or a screw, not because someone set out to collect miscellaneous iron.

Meadoworks lists this equipment from the same plant closures, consignments and auctions as the production machines. Buyers who already know the missing step should go straight to that group rather than treat this range as one machine type. A closure often includes the welder, the oven and the stretch wrapper along with the presses. The nameplate carries the group and the basic size or capacity, and buyers can inspect before they commit. Rigging is coordinated with the rest of the load when the machine is heavy enough to need it, and smaller cabinets ship with the cell instead of as a second project.