Business Details

Exit Strategy Consultants are pleased to announce the listing of our clients business for sale. This is a share sale for the business which includes all the trademarks and designs of the plant that the business has developed over the years. This business would be suited to an engineering based business that has the potential to manufacture the products and has the sales team to take the plant to market, along with the after sales department to deliver the consumables. This opportunity is all about the potential of the business. The current owners are prepared to consider a leveraged buyout over a period of time, subject to negotiation and they are happy to work with the new owners post sale for an agreed period. Our client has been designing and manufacturing dredgers, Diggers, Sand skimmers for slow water filter beds and tree harvesters for over 45 years, which have sold worldwide both for canal, river maintenance work and lake restoration, with a large number of machines being exported.

1978 saw the creation of the first amphibious dredger, as it was noticed that a lot of restriction of the type of work which the dredger were ideal for, this meant a requirement for low cost movement from job to job with the cost of a crane, one to lift the machine out of the water and another to place the dredger back in the water of the new location which inherently meant that there was a lot of down time, planning and cost of crane hire involved for some times small jobs, As previous machines were bought by the canal authorities and were bought for work in local areas so as the canals were cleared they had natural ability to move on to the next area of maintenance using the canal highway system, many machines were sold and are still in use today even with 50 years of work under their belt, hence that is why the author keeps supplying spare parts and advice to the new contractors holding their second hand value in esteem.

The 430 gravedigger is the latest design which was originally conceived in 1975 as a follow on from the well established walking excavator. It was found the walking principle was difficult for the cemetery staff to master as this was the first mechanical digger ever used in a cemetery, although the SMALLEY 5 was well accepted in the construction and civil engineering industries all over the world, it was decided in 1975 that a more dedicated machine was required hence the Smalley 425 was conceived, having four independent stabilisers, enabling the machine to be levelled in all planes so producing a vertical grave, as it is the requirement to be able to dig a grave 23cm away from the previous interment without encroaching on the previous dig, causing uncontrolled collapse of the previous grave entering the new dig.

The business has won awards for innovation over the years and has all the IP and trademarks for the following products

• Amphibious Dredgers
• Grave Diggers
• Sand Skimmers ( slow water filter beds)
• Tree harvesters

The full design spec and detailed sales particulars on this opportunity are available on request. A great opportunity for an engineering / manufacturing business that has the capability to take these products to market backed with a sales team to maximise on the opportunity of these unique developments by our client, which have been tried and tested over a lifetimes work in the engineering sector.