Dutton Machinery Group
Dutton Machinery Group leads with documented appraisals — then builds the sale, acquisition, or exit strategy around what the numbers actually say, not what either side hopes they mean.
Request an appraisal or start a listingA Dutton Machinery Group engagement opens with appraisal work — not as a formality, but as the governing document for every decision that follows. We produce written valuations covering fair market, orderly liquidation, and forced sale scenarios, and those figures are defensible in front of lenders, legal counsel, bankruptcy trustees, or an ownership group debating its next move. The asset universe we appraise and transact spans the entire production floor: extrusion lines and extruders, thermoform equipment of every configuration, fabrication and structural machinery, injection molding presses, stamping lines from single-stage to progressive, CNC machining and turning centers, tool and die inventories, precision grinding equipment, rotational mold machinery, automation cells and auxiliary support systems, mold libraries and product line tooling, blow mold equipment, rubber and silicone processing lines, die cast cells, EDM machinery both ram and wire, and Swiss turning centers. Once valuation is on paper, the disposition strategy is designed around it. When a seller's priority is speed and certainty, Dutton buys outright — committed capital, no contingencies, no waiting on downstream buyers to commit. When timeline and asset profile favor a longer runway, we structure consignment arrangements that place equipment directly with qualified buyers across our North American network and an active global buyer reach. Auctions and managed liquidations enter the picture when a defined settlement date is non-negotiable — plant closures, receivership situations, and estate settlements where maximum recovery within a fixed window is the only acceptable outcome. On the acquisition side, we source and vet specific equipment for manufacturers who know exactly what capability they need and cannot afford to compromise on condition or provenance. And when the transaction encompasses the enterprise itself, Dutton manages complete business sales and turnkey facility exits — where the M&E, the contracts, and the real estate transfer together as a single coordinated transaction. We serve as one accountable party from first appraisal to final close, rather than handing pieces of a complex exit to separate advisors who have never been in the same room.
Dutton Machinery Group is named for the principle behind it: that an advisory relationship with an industrial equipment owner only works when the advisor's credibility rests on documented valuation, not on the size of the next commission. We built this firm around appraisal discipline because we watched too many sellers learn what their equipment was worth only after the proceeds landed — and too many buyers overpay for assets that no one had honestly evaluated. The categories we cover run from extrusion and thermoforming through fabrication, stamping, injection, die casting, and every class of precision metalworking. That breadth is not accidental. An advisor who covers only part of a production floor cannot give coherent counsel on a facility exit, a department buyout, or a multi-line acquisition — the context disappears the moment a category falls outside the advisor's scope. We have no interest in steering a client toward a particular transaction structure because that structure is more convenient for us. Appraisal-first means the valuation stands on its own, and the disposition path follows from it — outright sale, consignment, auction, or a full business exit, whichever the numbers and the timeline actually support. That independence is what we protect, and it is what makes the advice worth having.
Serving sellers and buyers across North America, with an established global buyer network