Farrow Industrial Group
Farrow Industrial Group runs a working trading desk for industrial machinery — rotational molding, CNC, and automation are where the desk is deepest, but every category of plastics processing and metalworking equipment trades here every day.
Get a quote or open a positionA trading desk is not a listing service. Farrow Industrial Group takes positions — buying equipment outright with committed capital, pricing it against a live market, and moving it to qualified buyers without the lag that kills recovery for sellers who needed the deal closed last quarter. That posture shapes every service we offer and every conversation we have. Outright acquisition is the fastest path to certainty: Farrow evaluates the asset, names a number, and wires the funds. No contingency periods, no buyer-subject clauses, no waiting on a secondary market to materialize. When an outright sale is not the right structure — because the asset is high-value, because the seller wants ceiling rather than floor, or because the equipment needs time to find its natural buyer — we run consignment programs that put the full weight of the Farrow buyer network behind the placement. That network spans North America and connects into an active global reach, which means rotational mold machinery heading out of a closed facility in one market can land in front of a qualified buyer on another continent before the week is out. Appraisals and documented valuations underpin everything. The desk cannot trade intelligently without knowing what equipment is actually worth — not what the seller hopes or what a lender assumed three years ago, but what a ready buyer would pay today under orderly conditions and what a forced timeline would produce instead. Farrow produces written valuations covering fair market value, orderly disposition value, and distressed-scenario figures, defensible in front of lenders, legal counsel, or a boardroom. Those numbers drive our acquisition offers, our consignment pricing, and our auction reserves. Auction and liquidation management is a core capability. When a plant closure, restructuring, or estate situation demands a defined endpoint — a date certain, a cleared floor, a final settlement — Farrow structures and manages the event from catalog to close. We handle the sequencing of a mixed asset pool: CNC machining centers and Swiss turning equipment through one channel, injection molding and blow mold lines through another, stamping and fabrication assets alongside thermoform and extrusion equipment in the same coordinated sale. Die cast machinery, EDM cells, rubber and silicone processing lines, grinding equipment, auxiliary and automation systems, tool and die inventories, and complete mold packages all move through the same desk — because a trading operation that cannot handle the whole floor cannot manage a liquidation. On the buy side, Farrow sources specific equipment for manufacturers who know exactly what capability they need and cannot afford to wait for it to surface on a listing platform. We work the market proactively — calling into our dealer and plant-operator relationships, tracking equipment coming out of restructurings before it is ever publicly offered, and negotiating acquisitions on behalf of buyers who want representation rather than a search engine. When a transaction extends to the operating business itself, Farrow handles complete business sales and turnkey facility exits. We treat the enterprise, its contracts, and its physical assets as a single package. Real estate and M&E transfer within one coordinated transaction — not parceled across separate engagements with separate advisors pulling toward different outcomes. The desk runs all of it.
Farrow Industrial Group was built around the logic of a trading desk rather than the logic of a listing service. The distinction matters: a listing service waits for buyers and sellers to find each other; a trading desk holds inventory, knows the market on both sides, and closes the gap with its own capital and judgment. That orientation changes what we are willing to say, what positions we are willing to take, and how fast a deal can actually move. The breadth of our category coverage is not a marketing claim — it is a structural requirement. A desk that cannot quote rotomold equipment and CNC assets and automation systems in the same conversation is not a desk; it is a specialty shop with a broad homepage. Farrow trades across every category of plastics processing and metalworking machinery because the plants we work with do not segment their operations the way a catalog does. We carry no conflicts between our appraisal desk and our trading positions — the valuation work is honest because the trading work depends on it being honest. That is not a policy. It is just how a desk that plans to operate for a long time has to run.
Trading across North America with an active global buyer network