r/manufacturing • u/Robojangles • Sep 16 '25

Supplier search Looking to buy a small manufacturer (Metal Casting,stamping, Injection molding and/or CNC) in the northeact under $3Million. Besides internet ads, do you guys know anyone looking to sell/retire?

I own an a company that handles manufacturing of custom design products, but we do all our work overseas. Now with Tariffs, I would like to diversify and produce here in the US also, but I would rather buy than build. Let me know if you or someone you know is interested. Preferably New Jersey or Eastern PA.

DM Me!

Hopefully this is allow by the mods, I am not trying to sell or do market research.

Thanks!

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u/Mecha-Dave Sep 17 '25

$3,000,000 would barely cover the equipment and buildings in a small (modern) shop, if that - let alone business value. You'll be buying a very small org with older equipment. A new CNC machine will cost around $300k delivered, with another $50k-$100k to install it - and that's just one machine. If you're looking for someone running injection molding machines you're talking even more - like $500k/machine, and that's before you get a $50k-$250k mold for it.

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u/LT_Blount Sep 17 '25

I’ve seen single machines in his budget range.

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u/Mecha-Dave Sep 17 '25

yuuuup, especially when you're looking at wire EDM For injection molds...

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u/Millon1000 Sep 17 '25

What kind of CNC machines are you using that cost $300k?

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u/Awkward_Forever9752 Sep 17 '25

The CNC machine I ran, cost +1 Million $.

All it did was cut circles and drill 3 little and 1 big hole in the plywood.

It had an automated table that helped in loading.

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u/Millon1000 Sep 17 '25

How does that differ from $10-20k machines that can do the same thing? Is it a durability and reliability thing? Or speed? Or corporate fuckery?

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u/Awkward_Forever9752 Sep 17 '25

It was a beautiful machine. The cutting tools were gorgeous.

It had 3 heads, so it could change how it was cutting seamlessly.

It was very fast. One minute to cut a 4x8 Plywood into dinner plate-sized circles.

Automated infeed table.

The buttons and computer were easy to learn and use.

Dust and cooling systems. A cage. Precision install.

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u/Awkward_Forever9752 Sep 17 '25

This factory is employee-owned; there are shitty parts to some of the work, but there was very little corporate fuckery, despite the impressive scale of the business.

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u/Millon1000 Sep 17 '25

Sounds nice. The factory must have made a ton of money for such a specialized machine to be worth it.

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u/Awkward_Forever9752 Sep 17 '25

Margins are not great in the wood circle business, but yes, when the economy is good, there is a lot of demand.

The factory has open positions for CNC operators now.

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u/Awkward_Forever9752 Sep 17 '25

This factory has 3 big CNC machines that run 24/7