Aaron Industrial Marketplace Gears Up for Packaging Equipment Auction

AIM Begins New Year by Putting Primary and Secondary Packaging Machinery on the Auction Block 

Bensenville, IL – January 25, 2012 – Manufacturers who are looking for a good deal on quality-condition packaging equipment should mark their new 2012 calendars for January 24. At 9:00 a.m. CST on that day, the Aaron Industrial Marketplace (AIM) will begin auctioning off several lots of primary and secondary packaging equipment. The lots being sold span the food, pharmaceutical, cosmetics and chemical industries. Bidding will extend through January 26 at 4:00 p.m. CST and will be conducted on the AIM online auction platform.

The items up for bid will run the gamut of primary and secondary packaging machinery. Some of the highlights include bag sealers, bottle washers, cappers, case erectors, feeders, fillers, labelers, palletizers, tray sealers, wrappers and shrink equipment. Among the brand names bidders will recognize are Crown, Bemis, Fischbein, Doboy, Standard Metal Products, Jones, CAM, Anderson Machine, Superior, Wexxar, Circle, 3M, Ross, Krones, Polypak and Scandia, just to name a few.

Interested bidders who would like to inspect the equipment before committing to their top price are encouraged to arrange an appointment to do so. All of the machinery is presently being stored in a single location for convenient viewing and is available for onsite inspection.

“We want bidders to take part in this AIM auction knowing exactly what they’ll be walking away from it with,” explains Aaron Industrial Marketplace spokesperson Pat Quinn. “Unlike most auction platform providers, we have the in-house expertise to arm bidders with the accurate and detailed information they need to make informed buying decisions and to determine their price point.”

Quinn goes on to point out, “This primary and secondary packaging equipment auction is a great opportunity for manufacturers to get their 2012 budgets off on the right foot by picking up good machinery for well below market value. Most of the equipment on the bidding block is in very good condition, with a select few items needing only minor reconditioning to bring them up to next-to-new quality.”

Pharmaceutical, chemical, food and cosmetics manufacturers who would like to learn more about the primary and secondary packaging equipment AIM has up for bid can do so online at http://www.AaronIndustrialMarketplace.com. For more information on how to arrange an onsite inspection of the machinery prior to auction close, contact Pat Quinn at (630) 238-7531.

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Latest Aaron Industrial Marketplace Auction Proves Bidding Success

Tank and Vessel Lots Goes for 15 Percent Above Expected Value

Chicago, IL – February 7, 2011 – As the final seconds on the latest Aaron Industrial Marketplace (AIM) auction ticked down late last month, the tank and vessel lots up for bid closed at a higher-than-expected sales price. In fact, after just 18 hours on the auction block, the 64-piece lot sold at an average of 15 percent above the expected auction value. Taking place January 26–27, 2011, this bidding success story set the pace for a series of upcoming AIM auctions throughout the month of February. All indications point to 2011 being a favorable year for AIM sellers who are putting their process equipment up for sale on the AIM marketplace.

This Aaron Industrial Marketplace bidding coup is a piece of the much bigger online auction pie. On January 19, 2011, Bloomberg news reported that EBay Inc., owner of the largest e-commerce market, had forecasted “2011 revenue that may exceed estimates.” Indeed, three-year trends show significant growth in the online auction arena. “At the high end of EBay’s forecast for the year, sales will rise 16 percent, compared with 4.9 percent in 2010 and 2.2 percent in 2009.

Whereas EBay sells everything from clothing to electronics to automobiles, the Aaron Industrial Marketplace focuses on a single segment: process equipment. Sellers of unwanted new, used and reconditioned process equipment are now leveraging the Internet-bidding momentum in an atmosphere that targets buyers of precisely the items they wish to unload. AIM’s most recent auction success stands as a testament to that niche-oriented model.

During the January tank and vessel auction, “We had 53 registered bidders and 20 successful buyers of the equipment,” explains Aaron Industrial Marketplace spokesperson Bruce Baird. He goes on to point out how the marketplace managed to secure selling prices that were substantially higher than the expected value. “AIM did a dedicated marketing campaign that reached more than 40,000 Aaron Equipment (AIM’s parent company) customers that had shown an interest in tanks.”

That interest ultimately led to a bidding frenzy that paid off for the sellers included in the auction lot. Items contributing to the auction’s prosperous outcome included stainless steel jacketed and non-jacketed kettles, vacuum kettles, vertical and horizontal tanks, glass lined tanks, pressure tanks, processor tanks, cold water tanks, jacketed milk tanks, mix tanks and a complete insulated scraper mix tank system. In addition, this recent storage tank auction featured equipment manufactured by APV-Crepaco, Cherry Burrell, Mueller and Pfaudler. The individual pieces sold for anywhere from $700 to $16,950.

Such selling prices, however, wouldn’t have been possible if not for AIM’s intuitive auction model. The easy-to-use bidding platform allows buyers to register and bid, view lot catalogs and create a custom watch list so they never miss out on a desired piece of equipment.

Equipment owners who are looking to secure the best possible price on their unwanted new, used and reconditioned inventory can learn more about the Aaron Industrial Marketplace online at http://www.AaronIndustrialMarketplace.com. Buyers and sellers who are interested in taking part in the upcoming complete casein plant, toner manufacturing plant and plastics-related equipment auctions can contact Bruce Baird at (510) 452-7858.