Machinery & Equipment
Buy machinery while others are still searching.
Insolvencies, business closures, relocations, modernizations: Cernavio shows you where machine parks come free and who is scaling capacity down or up. Before the auction is scheduled.
Where sales fails in this industry
Asset sales spread by chance
Whoever calls the administrator first gets the package price. Whoever waits for the auction catalog bids with everyone else.
Official notices never say 'machinery'
Publications state case numbers and legal forms, not fixed assets. Whether a case is relevant has to be derived from industry and company size.
The sell side is just as blind
Companies that expand, relocate or automate need machinery and have budget. Those signals sit in press and registers, not in your CRM.
This is what your morning looks like
Four real signal types, curated by cernaFeed for this industry. All companies fictional, the patterns are not.
Insolvency opened: CNC manufacturer Weserland GmbH, 38 machines in fixed assets
Bremen court, 501 IN 33/26 · machining, built 2016 to 2023 · administrator exploring package sale
insolvenzbekanntmachungen.de · 22 min ago
Retirement closure: sheet metal shop for sale including machine park
Lasers, press brakes, built 2018+ · Sauerland region · individual sale possible
nexxt-change · 2 h ago
Moebelwerk Harzland relocates production to Poland: site closes Q2 2027
Press release + register change · woodworking lines coming free · sale likely
Press / cernaMoves · 6 h ago
Machine builder Rheintal visited your buying page 3 times
Pages: /buying, /services/dismantling · dwell time 5:15 min
cernaTrace · today 08:31
Five signal worlds, weighted for your market
Not every source is worth the same in every industry. This is how Cernavio weights the five signal worlds for this profile.
Insolvencies and asset sales with machine assets
Business closures and handovers including machine parks
Relocations, shutdowns, investment announcements
Procurement and disposal tenders
Buyers and sellers on your website
Three paths from feed to revenue
The package deal before the catalog
Signal
A CNC manufacturer with 38 machines enters insolvency; the administrator is exploring a package sale.
Action
You call on the day of publication and present a package offer for the entire machine park.
Result
Deal closed without an auction, margin well above piecemeal sales in a bidding process.
Exclusive before the relocation
Signal
cernaMoves flags a production relocation: the German site closes in nine months.
Action
With a long lead time you secure first option on the woodworking lines, including a dismantling offer.
Result
An exclusive purchase without competition; resale already brokered by dismantling day.
Succession with a machine park
Signal
An owner closes his sheet metal shop for retirement; the machine park is built 2018 and newer.
Action
You appraise the park within 48 hours and offer purchase plus brokering of the open orders.
Result
Purchase below market value in exchange for fast settlement; three machines resold before pickup.
The market in three numbers
~24,000
corporate insolvencies in 2025, many holding valuable machinery and equipment
Destatis
~2,000
insolvencies per year in manufacturing alone, the most machine-intensive sector
Destatis calibration
4M+
companies in the register: relocations, shutdowns and investments as daily triggers
Commercial register
Sources: Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), commercial register, market calibration. Figures rounded.
Frequently asked questions
From the combination of industry taxonomy (sector code, business description), company size and public indicators of fixed assets. A CNC shop with 60 employees scores high; a sales entity without production is filtered out.
Insolvency and register data cover Germany comprehensively. Tenders and disposal sales come from around 4,500 portals across 29 countries, so you also see opportunities in Austria, Switzerland and the EU.
New proceedings typically appear in the feed within minutes of publication. cernaBrief includes the administrator's firm and contact plus a first-contact draft. Calling the same morning is the standard workflow.
Yes. cernaMoves surfaces investment and expansion signals (new plants, automation, capacity build-up), and cernaTrace identifies prospective buyers on your website. One feed serves both sides of your business.
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