ERI specializes in equipment management for the high technology industry. Our customers are decision makers in the funding, acquisition, disposition or servicing of high value, high technology equipment who need assistance in the valuation, acquisition or disposition of equipment.
Our services include:
* Re- marketing of surplus or off-lease equipment: buying,
selling & brokering.
* Complete facility acquisitions, liquidations and auctions.
* Full service appraisals including technical analysis for estimation
of residual values.
* Specialized equipment servicing, custom modification, refurbishing,
installation and de-installation.
* Consulting and assistance in developing asset management programs
designed for optimum investment recovery and comprehensive asset
transfer and disposal.
Background
ERI principals combine decades of professional experience in the sale, exchange, and valuation of top quality used equipment. Our years of experience in the field have established for Equipment Resources, Inc., the reputation as an authority in the high technology industry. Our long list of clients include: Hewlett Packard, Xerox, AT&T, Unisys, Intel, Microsemi Corp., Digital Equipment Corp., Atmel, AMD, Texas Instruments, VLSI Technology, Motorola, and IBM, among other industry leaders. Some of our financial clients include AT&T Capital, Bank of America, CIT Group, Comdisco Electronic Group, GE Capital, Nations Bank, and US Leasing.
Facilities and Capabilities
Administrative and Technical: Our administrative and technical facility in Santa Cruz boasts a modern industrial building designed for our use. We have experienced technicians and machinist, six work bays with full facilities enclosed in a clean-room environment, fully equipped electronic lab and machine shop, extensive library of support documents and manuals, and large inventory of equipment and components.
Sales: Our sales staff is networked with high performance Computers and Custom Software which includes our extensive sales and valuation database. These knowledgeable sales executives market equipment worldwide on a daily basis and can skillfully target the right buyers for specialized equipment. Our showroom location and high visibility in Silicon Valley, as well as our extensive database of clients and equipment, provide the optimum exposure to qualified buyers and sellers. This in turn keeps us in touch with the pulse of the industry on a daily basis. In addition, our alliances in Europe and Asia extend our coverage to all corners of the world.
Remarketing
Brokering: As one of the industry's top equipment brokerage firms for over 20 years, ERI proudly offers the most broad range of brokering services available today. This includes listing equipment in our widely circulated publications and advertisement, and utilizing the most sophisticated database of its kind to put buyers and sellers together. Finding a knowledgeable and willing buyer maximizes the return on your investment.
Direct Buy/Sell: ERI has funding available to purchase outright from single system to complete facilities. We can move quickly and have cash available for speculative purchases.
Technical Services: The technical division of ERI, (TES, Technical Engineering Services) provides a variety of hands-on services for the equipment of the high technology industry including: installation and de-installation of sophisticated precision instrumentation and equipment, complete rebuilds, repairs, custom modifications, process consulting, field service, inspection, installation and training.
Appraisals
Our capabilities and experience, combined with a sales history based on 20 years experience as brokers, provides us with data that shows true values of the equipment used in this unique industry. Our association with a network of dealers, users, and other appraisers assures an accurate assessment of value that is unavailable elsewhere. Additionally, our extensive database of sales history as well as our technical knowledge of the industry, equipment, and trends allows us to provide accurate projections of residual values for funding purposes, thereby providing leasing companies and financial institutions with realistic numbers and equitable lease packages.
Equipment Management Consulting
The services offered above provide solutions that are often the result of inadequate or inaccurate information. In an industry that has thrived on unprecedented growth and change, it is difficult to keep up with the technology and at the same time maintain an overview of trends, and directions, but we have done just that. This experience provides us with the necessary tools to help you develop a strategy for optimum equipment management including acquisitions of equipment at substantial savings, arrangement of equitable lease schedules, and prearrangement of equipment disposition to ensure the best return.
We are experienced in providing estimates of residual values to leasing companies allowing them to set up leases that are equitable yet marketable, avoiding returned, unmarketable items at lease end.
Since 1978, we at ERI have been involved at many levels in the high technology industry and have created and worked with a variety of methods for equipment management. Let us put our experience to work for you.