Britannia AuctionsSurplus equipment sales in Swansea
Swansea Enterprise Park mixes factories and warehouses with trade counters, and that mix shows in the surplus that comes out of it. A trade counter that has closed a line has shelving, counters, a van and a forklift to move on, and a fabricator on the same road has a welding bay it no longer uses. A warehouse two doors down has taken out a mezzanine and has the racking stacked outside. We sell all of it, from the unit at Llansamlet or Fforestfach where it stands, while the rest of the business trades as normal.
Metal processing is the other source. Firms that serve the steel and metals plants towards Neath and Port Talbot carry spare cranes, rolls, cutting kit and lifting gear that a contract left behind. Some of it is heavy. All of it can be sold, and we will tell you what it is likely to make before you decide.
Trade counter fittings and racking by the lot
Trade counter surplus is ordinary kit with a wide field of possible buyers. Shelving, counters, tills, a small forklift and a van or two are what a start up merchant, farm shop, garage or workshop needs, and the trade in Llanelli, Neath, Port Talbot and Gorseinon is near enough to come and see the lots, with bidding not limited to the area online. Vans sell on mileage, age, history and whether the sign writing has been removed. We suggest removing it.
Pallet racking sells by the bay, and buyers dismantle it themselves in their slot. A standing run photographs better than a stack on the yard, so if you can leave it up until the sale closes, do.
Welding and fabrication kit goes to the engineering shops that serve the metals plants. Sets, positioners, plasma tables, rolls and guillotines all have a market on this side of Wales, and the bigger items are open to dealers further away who bid online and send a lorry.
A sale that fits round the counter opening hours
A surplus sale from a working trade counter has to respect the fact that customers are still walking in. So cataloguing is done before opening or after close. Viewing is by appointment, or on one morning with visitors signed in, and it does not use the customer car park. Collection slots are booked outside the busiest hours, and our staff are on site to release lots once their invoices are paid.
The Enterprise Park and Fforestfach have wide access roads, and junction 45 puts the Llansamlet units minutes from the motorway, which matters to a buyer sending a lorry from the Midlands or the south west. What your own yard, door and turning space will take is checked before anything is listed.
Where a business would rather not have any visitors at all, we collect the lot and sell it from our own premises. For shelving, tills, small plant and vans that is often the simpler answer, and it frees the space straight away.
What these sales can include
- Machine tools and CNC equipment
- Forklifts and access platforms
- Pallet racking and shelving
- Compressors and air tools
- Welders and fabrication kit
- Vehicles and trailers
- Test and measurement equipment
- Site accommodation and containers
- Packaging and labelling machines
- Obsolete stock and components
- Office furniture and IT
- Catering and canteen equipment
Selling from a live site
Most surplus sales happen inside a business that is still trading. That changes how we work. Cataloguing is done around your shifts. Viewing is by appointment or on a single day, with visitors signed in and escorted. Collection is booked in slots so that nobody is moving a machine through the middle of a production run.
Items that are still bolted down, plumbed in or connected to services are isolated by a competent person before collection, with electrical and gas disconnection done by qualified people. Buyers arrange and pay for the removal of their lots, and they do not disconnect services themselves.
Tell us about anything that affects access: weight limits on floors, door heights, crane availability, restricted hours. It all goes in the catalogue so buyers plan the removal properly.
The surplus equipment sales page covers what counts as surplus, one sale or a standing arrangement, pricing, reserves and the buyer's premium, after the sale.
Questions about selling in Swansea
- We are a merchant closing one branch but keeping the others. Can you sell just that branch's fittings and stock?
Yes. Selling one branch's contents while the rest of the business trades is a normal surplus job. We catalogue at that branch only, and the sale runs under a name and description that make clear it is a branch clearance rather than a business closing. Stock sells in lots grouped by type and stated quantity. Fittings and plant sell individually. If some items are being transferred to another branch, mark them before we arrive and they stay out of the catalogue.
- Is it worth selling a mezzanine floor that is already dismantled?
It is, provided the parts are complete. A dismantled mezzanine suits a buyer who wants a floor of roughly that size, and they will need the columns, beams, decking, handrail and stair to make it work again. Lay the steel out so it can be counted and keep the fixings in labelled boxes. Find the original drawing if you have it. Without the drawing it sells as steel and decking rather than as a floor, and the price follows.
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Guides
- Preparing machinery and equipment for sale
What to do before viewing day. Keep the machines that can be run safely available to demonstrate, isolate the rest, clean but do not repaint, find the tooling and manuals, and sort out access for removal.
- How used machinery is valued
Buyers pay for what a machine will do for them, less what it costs to get it out and running. This guide explains how make, hours, tooling, demand and removal cost feed a guide price, and why that price is not book value.