Networks are redrawn more often than buildings are built. When a distribution center closes, consolidates or re-automates, the racking, conveyance, automation and fleet inside it become assets with a deep and genuinely global buyer base — if they are brought to market while the technology is still current.
Distribution footprints are reconfigured constantly — by acquisition, by a change in carrier strategy, by automation that makes three buildings do the work of five, or by a lease that simply ends.
What is left behind is rarely worn out. Racking, conveyor and sortation systems, automation and handling fleets are typically well within service life and move readily to operators who need capacity now.
The difficulty is timing and sequencing. Removal is destructive, slow if planned badly, and often has to happen against a lease handback date that does not move.
That makes distribution work as much a logistics and schedule problem as a sales one. The sale has to be structured around when crews can get in, not the other way round.
Racking and conveyance are not the valuable part of a distribution center on their own.
A complete, documented, removable system with a clear schedule is a different proposition entirely.
Most distribution engagements release several of these at once, often against a fixed handback date.
Selective, drive-in, push-back and pallet flow racking, mezzanines, shelving, carton flow and bulk storage systems.
Belt, roller and accumulation conveyor, shoe and cross-belt sorters, merges, diverts, scanning and in-line weighing.
AS/RS and shuttle systems, goods-to-person stations, AGVs and AMRs, robotic palletising and piece picking, controls and software.
Counterbalance and reach trucks, order pickers, turret trucks, pallet jacks, tuggers, charging infrastructure and battery plant.
Case erectors and sealers, print-and-apply labelling, void fill, stretch wrappers, strapping and dock equipment.
Refrigeration plant, condensers and evaporators, freezer and chill enclosures, insulated panels and temperature control systems.
Dock levellers and seals, lighting, HVAC, compressed air, fire protection, switchgear, generators and plant utility equipment.
Tractors, trailers, yard equipment and logistics fleets, handled either with the facility or as a standalone fleet disposition.
Every distribution project is scheduled backwards from the date the building has to be returned. The sale calendar is built to fit the removal window, not the other way round.
System configuration, bay sizes, beam and upright specification, controls, software version and condition — the detail buyers need to know it will fit their building.
Complete systems usually realise more than parted-out components. We lot to the way buyers actually buy and price against current demand.
Third-party logistics operators, retailers, integrators and used-equipment dealers, reached directly as well as through auction.
Teardown sequencing, rigging, crews and transport coordinated against the handback date, with the building left in the condition the lease requires.
Tell us when the building has to be back and what is inside it. We will tell you what the contents are worth, what can realistically be removed in the window, and how the two fit together.
Built for what’s next.
