No fees, no broker
Transformer Buyback Program for Ohio Plants
How selling a transformer works in Ohio, in plain steps, with the paperwork and freight covered.
What we buy
What we buy here
Who we buy from
Six kinds of seller, one desk
- Recyclers
- Electrical contractors
- Equipment dealers
- End users
- Demo contractors
- Distributors
Fast offers
A nameplate photo is usually enough to price a unit the same day.
Dedicated logistics
We arrange the crane, the permits and the flatbed, not you.
No broker fees
You are dealing with the buyer, so nothing is shaved off the offer.
How it works
Six steps from your yard to the money
- 01
Take pictures
The nameplate, the cabinet interior and the tank in daylight. Three photographs are usually enough to place a unit in the right class and the right price band.
- 02
Send them to us
The form on this page, a text or an email all reach the same desk. Include the city, the access and any deadline the site is working to.
- 03
Review the offer
A buyer reads the photographs, asks one or two questions and sends a written offer with the assumptions stated, so nothing changes on the day.
- 04
We schedule freight
Crane, flatbed and permits are booked around your access. You get a date and a window, and we carry the cost of getting it right.
- 05
Testing on arrival
Winding resistance, megger and turns ratio, plus oil analysis where the unit is liquid filled. The results decide the final number, and you see them.
- 06
Get paid
Payment is released on the agreed terms once the unit is received and tested, by check or ACH. No retention, no sixty-day terms.
What we handle for you
The parts sellers dread, done for you
Rigging
Crane and forklift arranged around your access, not the other way round.
Oil containment
Bunds, absorbent and disposal handled before the unit moves.
Bill of sale
A clean title document for your records, signed on collection.
PCB paperwork
Pre-1979 units get the testing and the manifest they need.
Buying desk
The short answer
This page exists because most sellers do not know who to call, and the first three calls are usually wasted. The gap between scrap value and resale value is the whole reason a buying desk exists.
A common rating at a common voltage is worth more than a rare one in perfect order, which surprises sellers every week. A cancelled project leaves new equipment in crates with no destination, which is the best condition a buyer will ever see.
How it works here
Details that seem trivial on the phone become decisive on the pad, which is why they are asked about early. A cabinet that has been opened recently has probably been looked at by somebody who knew why.
A hot mechanical room quietly derates everything in it, and nobody notices until a unit fails early. A unit described honestly sells faster than one described optimistically, because the second one gets renegotiated.
What we need from you
If the unit is still energized, do not open anything; a tag photograph through the window is enough to start. A site visit answers in twenty minutes what a week of messages cannot.
A unit that has been disconnected for a year is not the same proposition as one that came out last week. Remanufacturing keeps the footprint, and the footprint is often the reason the unit cannot simply be replaced.
Compared with the alternatives
An offer that states what it assumes is easier to accept than one that does not, because both sides know where they stand. A unit that served a plant for thirty years has already proved most of what a buyer needs to know.
A seller who understands the rating will understand the offer, and the conversation gets shorter. A number agreed before the lift is a negotiation, and the same number after the lift is a dispute.
Ohio only, on purpose
Coverage means all eighty-eight counties, and the cities inside them are worked the same way as the farms between them. A city with a rail yard inside its limits is a city where heavy units move easily.
A mine-duty unit is designed to be dragged, and it looks it, which is not the same as being worn out. A unit that has been looked after is obvious within a minute, and so is one that has not.
Common questions
A yard with a dozen units in it is a record of what Ohio plants have been replacing. A quick decision is a kindness when the unit is standing in the way of a project.
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Get started
Get an offer in minutes
Five fields and a phone number is all we need to start. We reply the same business day, and a firm number follows the nameplate photo.
(614) 715-3047or send the form and we will call you.
Questions
What sellers ask before they call
Equipment types
Do you buy transformers anywhere in Ohio?
We know the Ohio permit routes, the scales and the bridge limits because that is the only ground we work. We buy in Ohio and only in Ohio, which is why a truck can be at a Ohio gate the same week the number is agreed. A substation unit is a project rather than a purchase, and it should be planned like one.
Service area
Is there a fee to get a number?
Answers come back the same day in most cases, and the truck is scheduled the moment the paperwork is signed. You are paid when the unit leaves the pad, not thirty days after it arrives somewhere else. A buyer who quotes without asking anything has quoted for a different transformer.
Payment
How fast can a unit leave the site?
We do not photograph a site for publication and we do not name a seller in anything we write. A single padmount is a half-day job once access is confirmed; a substation unit is a week of planning and a permit. A unit in a building that is coming down is a different problem from a unit in a plant that is staying.