Metals Desk

Turning equipment liabilities into environmental assets.

We buy used forklifts, forklift batteries and scrap metal — one unit or a whole fleet, picked up and paid for anywhere in the country.

  • 01 Send your list
  • 02 Get a firm cash offer
  • 03 We pick up & pay
  • Simple, fast, nationwide

What We Buy

We buy what others
write off.

Equipment Assets is the purchasing arm — cash for used forklifts, batteries and scrap metal, from a single unit to an entire fleet, anywhere in the country.

Used electric forklift ready for pickup
01

Used Forklifts

All makes and classes, running or dead — electric, LP and diesel, bought as-is.

Used industrial forklift batteries
02

Used Forklift Batteries

Lead-acid and lithium traction batteries — working, spent or scrap. We handle safe removal.

Nationwide pickup · Fast payment · One truckload or a whole warehouse

Flatbed truck loaded with palletized forklift batteries and equipment

By the truckload

Flatbed loads of forklifts, batteries and fleets — cleared in one call.

We coordinate the freight and pull whole lots nationwide. One unit or a full warehouse — we load it, and you get paid on pickup.

Get a cash offer

Sell to Us

Turn your surplus
into a check.

  1. 1

    Send your list

    Tell us what you've got — makes, counts, condition, and photos if you have them.

  2. 2

    Get a firm offer

    We come back fast with a straight cash offer, freight included.

  3. 3

    We pick up & pay

    Send over the models and serial numbers and we prepay — then our trucks handle removal nationwide.

Our Purpose

We started with the cleanest thing we know — forests, water, air, the quiet machinery of life — and asked what industry owes it.

Every forklift, every battery, every pallet of steel eventually becomes a liability: space it occupies, hazards it creates, capital it ties up, and carbon it threatens to release.

From our roots in Metro Detroit — the birthplace of American industry — our answer is to close the loop. We take that liability and give it back to the world as something cleaner: recovered materials, rebuilt equipment, and emissions that never reach the atmosphere.

The Process

From the earth,
back to the earth.

Four core processes carry industrial equipment from the end of its working life back into the economy — every stage handled to certified environmental standards.

01

Metal Recycling

We recover and recycle the steel, copper, aluminum and lead locked inside end-of-life equipment — feeding clean metal back into manufacturing instead of the landfill.

02

Scrap Processing

Ferrous and non-ferrous scrap is sorted, sheared, baled and graded to spec — turning mixed industrial waste into market-ready commodity streams.

03

Asset Removal

We work with large corporates on end-of-life asset removal — a specialist supplier that safely clears redundant plant, equipment and machinery from live facilities and feeds it straight into a closed-loop recycling chain.

04

Battery Rebuilding

Spent industrial batteries are tested, reconditioned and rebuilt to a genuine second working life — full performance at a fraction of the embodied carbon of new.

Corporate Governance

Held to a higher standard.

Doing right by the planet isn't a claim — it's audited. Our process is built around recognized environmental, safety and data-security certifications, with third-party evaluation and transparent oversight at every step.

R2v3
Responsible Recycling — the global standard for reuse & end-of-life electronics.
RIOS
Recycling Industry Operating Standard — quality, environment & safety in one system.
EPA Aligned
Operating to U.S. EPA universal-waste & battery-handling requirements.
Chain of custody

Documented, end to end

Every asset is tracked from pickup to final disposition, so recovered material is fully traceable and auditable.

Downstream diligence

Vetted partners only

Materials move only to audited, certified downstream processors — never to landfill or informal export.

Data security

Nothing left behind

Controllers and batteries are handled with certified data-sanitization practices before recycling or rebuild.

Carbon accounting

Measured, not estimated

Diverted tonnage is converted to verified avoided-emissions reporting for our partners' sustainability goals.

Measurable Impact

Cleaner by the numbers.

0Pounds of CO₂ emissions prevented from entering the atmosphere.
0Of recovered materials redirected into reuse and rebuild programs.
0Metro Detroit facilities working as one closed-loop system.
Metalworking factory floor with machinery and bins of recovered metal

The bigger picture

Every forklift we buy is one less in a landfill.

Rooted in Metro Detroit's industrial heartland, we turn the machinery others discard back into clean metal, rebuilt power and emissions that never happen — closing the loop on heavy industry.

Our Battery Store

Need batteries, not cash?
Shop Repower.

Repower Batteries is our online store for reconditioned lead-acid and lithium forklift batteries — the performance of new at a fraction of the cost and the carbon.

Visit the Repower store →

Got surplus forklifts, batteries or scrap?
Let's turn it into a check.

Visit

835 Stephenson Hwy
Troy, MI 48083

Call

(248) 399-7900

Write

info@equipment-assets.com

Network

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