Machinery & Equipment Appraisals

Epernay International offers Machinery & Equipment (Machinery Technical Specialties MTS) appraisal services in its different values as follows:

Auction Value Appraisal: An opinion of the expected gross dollar amount to be realized at a professionally conducted and promoted public auction sale as of the date of the appraisal.

Orderly Liquidation Value Appraisal: An opinion of the expected gross dollar amount to be realized at an orderly negotiated sale held within a reasonable period of time as of the date of the appraisal.

Fair Market Value Appraisal: An opinion of the gross dollar amount to be realized between a willing buyer and a willing seller, in the open market, assuming that neither party is under compulsion to buy nor to sell, both are fully aware of all relevant facts as of the date of the appraisal.

In Place Value Appraisal: An opinion of the Fair Market Value, which is the gross dollar amount to be realized between a willing buyer and a willing seller in the open market, assuming that neither party is under compulsion to buy nor to sell, both are fully aware of all relevant facts as installed for intended utilization as of the date of the appraisal.

New Replacement Cost Value Appraisal: An opinion of the amount it would cost, F.0.B. at the new manufacturer's plant, to purchase a new item of like quality and specifications in the open marketplace. When such item is unavailable in the marketplace, the appraiser should use his or her best judgment in estimating a value as of the date of the appraisal.

Desktop Opinion: A professional opinion of value based on materials or information supplied to the appraiser and evaluated without the benefit of viewing the assets. It is also a tool to determine the need for an appraisal or the scope of an appraisal. Desktop opinions are clearly marked as a "professional opinion" and state that this is not an appraisal.

At Epernay International, we appraise the following types of machinery and equipment throughout the entire country:

Industrial: Machine tools, sheet metal fabricating machinery, RNC machine tools, inspection equipment, manual operated machinery, munitions manufacturing including bullets & artillery shells, food processing equipment, chemical processing, environmental cleaning equipment, forklifts, overhead & jib cranes, conveyors, ovens, wire processing, fence fabrication.

Construction: Bulldozers, dump trucks, crawlers, agricultural harvesters, boom and mobile cranes, off road trucks, dump trailers, earthmoving equipment.

Transportation: Trailer-tractor trucks, flatbed trailers, refrigerated & plain vans, double dump loaders, dump trucks, rolling stock including cars & busses.

Medical: Different type of medical equipments and those related to Medical Offices and Hospitals.