🔧 Trades & Industrial, Round 2: 10 Businesses For Sale 🔧
Our first trades issue drew the most replies of the entire vertical series, and the intake has since delivered two heavyweights: a North Carolina metal fabrication company with $500K in reported SDE and no anchor price, and a Pennsylvania marine operation doing $4.6M with property and equipment included. Essential work, sticky customers, retiring owners. Reply to this email with the deal number(s) and we will send you the details.
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How this issue works: deal numbers carry over from our master pipeline (Issues #221 through #243), so if you already replied about a deal, the number is the same. Note the numbers that interest you and reply to this email with them. Most of these businesses are off-market and appear nowhere else, and a real person on our team reads and answers every reply.
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In this week's issue:
🏭 Featured: Metal Fabrication Company (North Carolina) - $500K SDE, no anchor price
⚓ Featured: Marine Industry Business (Duncannon, PA) - $4.6M revenue with property included
🔧 8 more trades and industrial deals from a stainless fab shop to a timber operation
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#71 - Metal Fabrication Company | North Carolina
📍 Location: North Carolina 🏷️ Asking Price: Inquire 🆔 Business ID: Confidential 💰 Cash Flow: $500,000 (owner-reported SDE) 📈 Gross Revenue: $2,400,000 📊 Business Type: Metal Fabrication 🏠 Ownership: Owner Operated 🔥 $500K Reported SDE! | 21% Margin! | Retirement Sale!
✅ Key Highlights:
• $500,000 in owner-reported SDE on $2,400,000 in revenue, a 21% margin that signals real production capability rather than pass-through job-shop work.
• The owner has not anchored a price, which puts a prepared buyer in control of the valuation conversation.
• North Carolina manufacturing keeps expanding as reshoring pulls fabrication work back to the Southeast.
• Retirement-driven sale with a seller who wants a real operator, not a flipper.
🚀 Growth Opportunities:
• Fabrication shops at this size become platform acquisitions; estimators and welders scale the book of business.
• Defense, utility, and infrastructure work in the Carolinas keeps demand structurally strong.
📌 Summary:
Half a million in reported owner earnings and no asking price. The buyer who values this shop correctly, and first, shapes the whole deal.
🔒 Confidentiality: Financials available upon NDA.
#84 - Marine Industry Business | Duncannon, PA
📍 Location: Duncannon, PA 🏷️ Asking Price: $3,200,000 (includes properties and equipment) 🆔 Business ID: Confidential 💰 Cash Flow: $210,000 (owner-reported SDE) 📈 Gross Revenue: $4,600,000 📊 Business Type: Marine Industry Sales & Service 🏠 Ownership: Owner Operated 🔥 $4.6M Top Line! | Properties and Equipment Included! | Retirement Sale!
✅ Key Highlights:
• $4,600,000 in revenue with the real estate and equipment included in the $3.2M price, which gives lenders collateral to underwrite against.
• Marine dealers and service operations hold territory-like positions: the river traffic is local and so are the customers.
• The gap between a $4.6M top line and $210,000 in reported SDE is the diligence story; margin recovery here is the upside case, and we will model it with you.
• Retirement sale from an owner open to structure.
🚀 Growth Opportunities:
• Service, storage, and winterization typically carry far better margins than unit sales; mix shift is the lever.
• Pennsylvania's river corridors support a durable boating base with limited dealer competition.
📌 Summary:
Scale, dirt, and equipment in one package with a retiring owner. Buy the assets, fix the margin mix, and the price starts to look cheap.
🔒 Confidentiality: Financials available upon NDA.
🕵🏼♀️ Direct-From-Owner Pipeline: Trades & Industrial
Every listing below came straight through our seller intake. These owners contacted us directly; none of these are broker listings. Figures are owner-reported and verified during diligence. Reply with the deal number(s) to request an introduction.
🏭 Fabrication & Manufacturing
#45 - Stainless Steel Welding & Fabrication Shop | Rutherfordton, NC
📍 Rutherfordton, North Carolina
🏷️ Asking: Negotiable | 💰 Cash Flow: $450,000 | 📈 Revenue: $1,200,000
📝 Specialty stainless fabrication at a 37% margin. Retirement sale, open to seller financing.
🔒 Confidentiality: Financials available upon NDA.
#10 - Structural Steel Fabrication & Erection | Massachusetts
📍 Massachusetts
🏷️ Asking: $3,000,000 (includes real estate) | 💰 Cash Flow: $250,000 | 📈 Revenue: $2,000,000
📝 Steel construction products with the property included in the price. Retirement sale, open to seller financing.
🔒 Confidentiality: Financials available upon NDA.
#11 - Custom Wood & Metal Fabrication Studio | Denver, CO
📍 Denver, Colorado
🏷️ Asking: $700,000 | 📈 Revenue: $1,300,000
📝 Design-driven fabrication shop. Owner has other ventures pulling him away; open to seller financing.
🔒 Confidentiality: Financials available upon NDA.
#9 - CVT Clutch Repair & Modification Shop | Weston, WV
📍 Weston, West Virginia (95% ship-in / ship-out, relocatable)
🏷️ Asking: $2,500,000 | 💰 ~50% pre-tax margin | 📈 Revenue: $850,000 - $1,000,000
📝 Motorsports niche with a standing backlog and waiting list. Retirement sale.
🔒 Confidentiality: Financials available upon NDA.
#14 - Specialty Electrical Connector Supplier | Baton Rouge, LA
📍 Baton Rouge, Louisiana
🏷️ Asking: $300,000 | 💰 Cash Flow: $125,000 | 📈 Revenue: $650,000
📝 Niche connector business at under 2.5x cash flow. Owner is 78 and ready to retire ASAP.
🔒 Confidentiality: Financials available upon NDA.
⚓ Marine & Materials
#70 - Marine Sales & Service Business | Bay St Louis, MS
📍 Bay St Louis, Mississippi
🏷️ Asking: $2,000,000 | 💰 Cash Flow: $350,000 (owner-reported) | 📈 Revenue: $850,000
📝 Gulf Coast marine operation. Owner moving to another venture; seller financing yes.
🔒 Confidentiality: Financials available upon NDA.
#50 - Timber & Sawmill Operation | New Straitsville, OH
📍 New Straitsville, Ohio
🏷️ Asking: $1,975,000 (appraisal) | 💰 Cash Flow: $300,000 (5-yr avg) | 📈 Revenue: $1,500,000 (5-yr avg)
📝 Priced at appraisal with land, equipment, and a biochar expansion project included. ASAP timeline.
🔒 Confidentiality: Financials available upon NDA.
⚡ Electrical
#92 - Residential Electrical Contractor | Mebane / Chapel Hill, NC
📍 Mebane / Chapel Hill, North Carolina
🏷️ Asking: $650,000 | 💰 SDE: $265,000 (owner-reported) | 📈 Revenue: $550,000
📝 48% reported margin in the Research Triangle growth corridor. Featured in Issue #238.
🔒 Confidentiality: Financials available upon NDA.
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