Serving sellers and buyers across North America, with an established global buyer network

Rathbone Partners

The valuation is the strategy. Everything else is execution.

Rathbone Partners puts a defensible written number on your equipment before a single disposition decision is made — because sellers who know what they have never leave money on the floor.

The name Rathbone Partners carries a specific implication: partners, not processors. We are not a listing service that routes sellers toward whichever channel moves inventory fastest. We are advisors who earn that title by doing the hardest part of the work first — writing a defensible valuation before any disposition path is proposed. That discipline shapes the entire firm. It means the appraisal desk and the sales desk answer to the same standard, and there is no incentive to inflate a number to win a listing or deflate one to accelerate a purchase. Rathbone Partners was built around CNC machining, blow mold, and die cast equipment because those categories reward genuine technical depth — a machining center priced on age alone is mispriced, and a die cast cell valued without understanding its shot capacity and die condition is a guess dressed up as a number. That same rigor extends across every other category we handle. We do not dabble in rubber, silicone, rotational mold, injection, extrusion, thermoform, grinding, fabrication, stamping, Swiss turning, EDM, tool and die, or mold and tooling assets — we appraise them, acquire them, and move them with the same documented discipline we apply to the equipment categories that define our identity. Sellers get a clear picture of what they hold before they commit to a path. Buyers get a vetted asset with documentation that holds up after the wire clears. That is what a genuine advisory relationship looks like, and it is the only kind Rathbone Partners offers.

At Rathbone Partners, every engagement opens at the same desk: appraisal. Before any asset changes hands, we produce a documented valuation — fair market value, orderly liquidation value, and forced sale value — written to withstand scrutiny from lenders, legal counsel, ownership groups, and financial auditors alike. That number is not a formality; it is the foundation every subsequent decision rests on. We cover the full span of plastics and metalworking equipment: CNC machining centers and turning cells, blow mold lines and tooling, die cast cells and trim equipment, stamping presses and coil handling systems, fabrication and structural metalworking machinery, cylindrical and surface grinding equipment, tool & die toolroom assets, wire and sinker EDM systems, rotational mold carousel lines, rubber and silicone mixing and curing equipment, thermoform equipment and plug-assist systems, automation and auxiliary production systems, Swiss precision turning centers, extrusion lines and extruders, injection molding presses, and complete mold inventories and proprietary product lines. Once the written valuation is in hand, Rathbone Partners structures the disposition path the numbers support — not the one that is easiest to execute. When a seller needs capital quickly and cleanly, we purchase equipment outright, with committed funds and no contingencies. When the asset profile or the market timing calls for broader exposure, we manage consignment placements — positioning machinery directly with vetted buyers across our North American network and our active international buyer base. Auctions and structured liquidations are available when a defined settlement date and maximum competitive tension are the right instruments — particularly in plant closure, lender-directed, and estate contexts. On the acquisition side, Rathbone Partners sources and evaluates specific equipment on behalf of manufacturers who need the right configuration, not merely the nearest available machine. And when the transaction extends to the enterprise itself, we manage complete business sales and turnkey facility exits. We handle the contracts, real estate, and M&E as one coordinated transaction — a single accountable partner for sellers who cannot afford disconnected advisors working in separate directions.

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