What Is Facility Decommissioning & Liquidation?
Decommissioning is closing a facility properly: safely removing racking, conveyors, machinery, and contents, and returning the building to the condition your lease demands. Liquidation is the other half: recovering real money from the assets you no longer need instead of paying someone to haul value to scrap.
Done together, closure becomes a project with a return: MTLI tears down, buys back or brokers equipment, and hands the landlord a clean building, often funding much of the closure from asset recovery.
What Decommissioning Covers
Racking teardown
Safe, sequenced dismantling with hardware sorted for resale or redeployment.
Conveyor and equipment removal
Systems de-energized, dismantled, and crated or scrapped by value.
Machinery rigging out
Heavy equipment disconnected, rigged, and shipped to buyers or new sites.
Asset recovery and buyback
MTLI buys used racking and equipment directly, cash against your closure costs.
Scrap and recycling
Steel and materials handled at market rates with documentation.
Lease restoration
Floors patched, walls repaired, and the building returned to required condition.
How MTLI Works With Facility Decommissioning & Liquidation
Design & Engineering
It starts with your data, not a catalog: throughput, product profile, building, and budget. Our engineers design the right answer, with stamped drawings and permits where structures are involved.
Supply & Procurement
We source across 500+ manufacturer partners worldwide, brand-agnostic, new and used where it makes sense, with volume pricing passed through to you.
Installation & Commissioning
Our own crews install, integrate, and commission, phased around live operations when needed, with an MTLI supervisor on site every day and 98% on-time delivery.
Support & Lifecycle
After handover we stay: preventative maintenance programs, inspections, controls support, and 24/7 options, designed around your uptime targets.
Where MTLI Can Help You
- Site consolidations and network shutdowns
- Lease-end restorations with hard deadlines
- Recovering value from surplus racking and equipment
- Clearing space for renovations and re-automation
- Bankruptcy, wind-down, and time-critical clearances
- Paired with relocation when part of the operation moves on
From under $100K to $100M+ turnkey. A specialist calls within one business day.
Common Questions, Answered
Is our used racking actually worth anything?
Usually yes: structurally sound selective racking and common systems hold real resale value. MTLI buys back directly or brokers it, and the recovery often offsets a large share of teardown cost.
How fast can a facility be cleared?
Small sites clear in days; large DCs run phased over weeks. Lease deadlines set the plan, and we schedule crews to hit them.
What condition does the landlord get?
Whatever the lease requires: anchors cut, floors patched, walls repaired, and documentation of the restoration, negotiated line by line against your lease exhibit.
Can you handle decommissioning and our new site together?
Yes, that is the strongest version: one team tears down, moves what should move, sells what should sell, and installs the destination, one schedule with no gaps.