A Solution to Managing Surplus Assets for the Process and Packaging Industries by EquipNet, Incorporated, a Feature of Industry Today on Industrialinfo.com Radio

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Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas) will host EquipNet, Incorporated (Cannon, Massachusetts) as its special guest on Industrialinfo.com Radio Monday, November 21, 2005, as part of Industry Today, a weekly Internet radio broadcast. Equipnet is one of the most effective asset management companies in the market place using a multi-tiered approach to customize solutions for Fortune 1000 manufacturing companies. EquipNet employs a robust, yet simple technology and equipment expertise for each end-user and buyer.

EquipNet’s goal is to establish a plan that will recapture lost cash flow, improve liquidity, reduce capital expenditures and improve return on your assets. EquipNet can accurately predict the success of a project through its thorough Excess Asset Analysis, but it's the execution of the project that ensures its success. The success of Equipnet’s business model is a direct result of a multi-channel approach to equipment sales and marketing, a rigorous marketing methodology, a comprehensive end-user database, an experienced equipment sales force and award-winning technology.

Equipnet maintains a large and comprehensive inventory of used equipment that is available from its web site. This inventory represents equipment serving multiple industries, including chemical, pharmaceutical, packaging and most large process applications. Equipnet offers EquipMail for industry specific sales notifications allowing every user of the Equipnet web site to select targeted email notifications on equipment available in specific industries and geographies of interest.

The large number of mergers and acquisitions of recent years have led to many companies closing large manufacturing locations or greatly reducing the size of some plant operations through consolidation or relocations. These closures and consolidations frequently require the need to liquidate capital equipment or even entire manufacturing plants in many cases. EquipNet markets these facilities as whole plants in situ or as whole plant relocation opportunities to a different geographic region. The value that the client receives is most often a multiple of the value of the individual pieces of equipment and the expense of dismantling and demolition is shifted to the purchaser in most cases.

Over the last two years, Industrialinfo.com has identified over 1,800 industrial plant closures in North America as part of its North American Plant Database. The most significant number of closings were in the Industrial Manufacturing Industry, representing over 840 plant locations. As the trend to consolidate continues to grow in an effort to achieve profitability, Equipnet will become an increasingly valuable resource with the ability to quickly help plant owners identify the most economical solution to buying or selling used equipment.

Join Roger Gallo, President & CEO of EquipNet, along with Crazy Al of Industry Today to learn more about how EquipNet can help you develop an effective asset management program today. Click Here! Monday, November 21, 2005 at 10:30 am (EST) to hear the LIVE broadcast. If you miss the show, Click Here to hear this or any of the over 100 previous Industry Today shows covering topics important to industry spending, including trends, outlooks, and focus segments on specific industries.

Industrial Information Resources (IIR) is a Marketing Information Service company that has been doing business for over 22 years. IIR is respected as a leader in providing comprehensive market intelligence pertaining to the industrial processing, heavy manufacturing, and energy-related industries throughout the world.