Crowley Asset Advisory brings machine-tool discipline to every engagement: rigorous identification, honest valuation, and purposeful disposition of metalworking and plastics processing equipment across North America.
Crowley Asset Advisory approaches every engagement the way a precision machinist approaches a first cut: understand the material before committing the tool. That means valuation comes before everything else. We produce documented, defensible values — fair market, orderly liquidation, and forced sale — for individual machines and complete plant inventories spanning the full range of metalworking and plastics processing assets. Those numbers are built to hold up in front of lenders, bankruptcy courts, estates, and buyers who know what they are looking at. Once the value is established, we choose the disposition path that actually fits it. Outright purchase is available when a seller needs speed and certainty over upside — we buy directly, close the transaction, and move on. Consignment gives owners who have more flexibility a managed sale process with Crowley carrying the day-to-day work. When asset volume or timeline calls for it, we structure and run auctions and liquidations, drawing on a qualified buyer network that extends well beyond North America. Private negotiated sales remain an option throughout, and for buyers on the other side of the table, we source and vet equipment before capital is committed. Where the engagement grows to encompass the business itself, we handle complete business sales and turnkey facility sales. The contracts, real estate, and M&E transfer as one coordinated transaction — nothing treated as an afterthought and nothing left to a different table to resolve. The equipment categories we work across reflect that full-scope commitment. On the metalworking side: EDM in both wire and sinker configurations, Swiss-type turning, CNC machining centers and turning lathes, tool and die assets, die casting cells, metal stamping presses and coil lines, fabrication equipment, and grinding and cylindrical finishing machines. On the plastics and rubber side: injection molding presses, blow molding machinery, thermoforming lines, extrusion and compounding systems, rotational molding equipment, rubber and silicone processing equipment, and molds, tooling, and associated product lines. Automation and auxiliary systems — robotics, material handling, temperature control, and ancillary support equipment — are evaluated and sold alongside the primary assets rather than treated as surplus afterthought.
The machine-tool world has a particular standard: tolerances are held, not estimated, and the person at the machine is expected to know the difference. Crowley Asset Advisory was built around the same standard applied to asset advisory work. We came up through the equipment side — identifying machines by make, configuration, and condition before attaching a number to them — and that background shapes everything downstream. A valuation produced here reflects what a knowledgeable buyer would actually pay, not a figure reverse-engineered from what a seller wants to hear. Because we work across both metalworking and plastics processing, we are not limited to one corner of the market when a plant carries a mixed inventory. Manufacturers restructuring a product line, lenders managing a distressed credit, estates settling a founder's facility, and buyers sourcing specific production capacity all work with us for the same reason: the technical read on the equipment comes first, and the transaction structure follows from it. That order is not a positioning statement — it is the only sequence that produces a number worth relying on.
Serving owners, lenders, and estates across North America with a global buyer network behind every sale
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