Case studies, regulatory analysis, and technical reflections from three decades of industrial asset recovery, demilitarization, plant decommissioning, and complex disposition work. Written for the plant managers, procurement leads, and defense-adjacent operators we work with every day.
An ammunition manufacturer had five-foot cubic boxes of loaded rejects that no other vendor would take. We designed a proprietary demilitarization process, watched competitors copy it, then rebuilt from scratch. What the current-generation process does differently.
Asset RecoveryIndustrial equipment valuation isn't one number — it's five. Replacement value, fair market value in continued use, fair market value in exchange, orderly liquidation, and forced/scrap. When each applies, how professional appraisers pick, and the mistakes we see most often.
Plant DecommissioningNinety days is the right planning window for a plant shutdown. Compress it and value drops. Extend it and momentum evaporates. Here's the week-by-week checklist we run when we're the disposition partner, plus the five most common mistakes.
DemilitarizationIf your company makes, imports, brokers, or holds anything on the U.S. Munitions List, ITAR shapes how you dispose of it. Chain-of-custody requirements, documentation standards, the four most common failures, and what auditors actually check.
Asset RecoveryMost plant managers use these terms interchangeably. They aren't the same. The gap between them — often 5× to 20× on the same piece of equipment — is the single biggest lever on the economics of an asset disposition project. Worked example inside.