Revitalize Your Equipment with Expert Reconditioning
Aaron Equipment provides industrial equipment reconditioning services that help companies repair, test, and modify machinery so they can extend equipment life, reduce replacement costs, and keep production moving. From its 100,000 square-foot onsite shop near Chicago, Aaron can recondition, fabricate, machine, weld, paint, and test a wide range of used and new process equipment.
Why Recondition Instead of Replace?
Not every piece of equipment needs to be replaced. In many cases, industrial equipment reconditioning can restore performance, improve reliability, and extend equipment life at a significantly lower cost than purchasing new machinery.
When core equipment remains structurally sound, rebuilding and refurbishing critical components can help manufacturers avoid lengthy lead times, reduce capital expenditures, and return equipment to production faster. Reconditioning may also create opportunities to modernize controls, replace worn components, improve safety systems, and address operational issues that impact performance.
Aaron Equipment evaluates each project individually to help determine whether reconditioning, repair, modification, or replacement is the most practical solution based on equipment condition, operational requirements, and long-term business goals.
Common reasons companies choose equipment reconditioning include:
Lower cost compared to purchasing new equipment
Extended equipment service life
Reduced production downtime
Improved reliability and performance
Modernized controls and electrical systems
Access to replacement parts for older equipment
Faster turnaround compared to sourcing new machinery
Trusted Equipment Repair Expertise
Backed by decades of experience in buying, selling, repairing, and reconditioning process and packaging equipment, Aaron brings practical shop expertise grounded in real equipment performance, marketability, resale conditions, and industrial asset use. Whether your equipment needs complete reconditioning, custom fabrication, controls work, or specialized replacement parts, Aaron’s mechanics and engineers can help return it to dependable working condition.
Want to take advantage of our shop services, but are unsure of what specifically is needed? No problem! Contact us to schedule an onsite visit. We’re happy to offer the convenience of consulting and engineering a solution for your process needs. We’ll even design and fabricate the machine parts you require but can’t find anywhere else.
Full-Service Equipment Reconditioning Services
Aaron’s onsite shop is built to support industrial equipment reconditioning services, including repair, restoration, testing, fabrication, and equipment modifications. With multiple cranes capable of handling up to 30 tons of machinery and a climate-controlled service environment, the facility can support large, complex, and specialized process equipment projects.
Reconditioning can help restore used, worn, or underperforming machinery so it can continue serving a productive role in your operation. Depending on the equipment, Aaron’s team may inspect, clean, repair, paint, replace parts, test components, and perform other shop work to improve reliability and extend useful life.
Aaron’s industrial equipment repair services include cleaning, painting, light fabrication, welding, machining, mechanical repair, and support from experienced mechanics and welders. For more specialized work, Aaron can also coordinate heavy machining, fabrication, plating, polishing, and ASME code repair through qualified subcontractors.
Some equipment requires more than a standard repair. Aaron’s mechanical, electrical, and process engineering experience helps the team evaluate equipment condition, process requirements, utility availability, and operating goals before recommending a practical path forward.
When replacement components are hard to source, Aaron can support custom machine parts fabrication for older process machinery, custom equipment, or machines that need modification before returning to production.
Aaron’s engineers and mechanics design and build control panels for process equipment, including NEMA control panels, starters, VFDs, PLCs, HMI touchscreens, alarms, communications, recorders, safety switches, and integrated safety devices. The shop also supports pneumatic controls, hydraulics, hydraulic motors, and lifting or actuating mechanisms.
Aaron specializes in filtering-type centrifuges and offers complete centrifuge reconditioning, replacement centrifuge parts, and drive system support. For in-stock centrifuge parts, overnight delivery may be available to help reduce downtime and keep production moving.
How the Equipment Reconditioning Process Works
Aaron Equipment follows a practical process to help customers understand what their machinery needs, what work is recommended, and what it will take to return equipment to service.
STEP 1
Share equipment details, condition, photos, and repair or reconditioning goals to help define the project scope.
STEP 2
Aaron reviews your equipment needs and recommends repair, fabrication, controls work, or replacement solutions.
STEP 3
Our shop team performs repairs, fabrication, testing, component replacement, and equipment reconditioning based on approved project scope.
STEP 4
Receive updates, testing results, and recommendations for shipment, installation, or continued equipment support after completion.
Shop Capabilities in Action
Aaron’s shop works on a wide range of process equipment, including centrifuges, extruders, dryers, mixers, blenders, mills, screeners, pumps, presses, shredders, and related machinery.
Request Industrial Equipment Financing Services
Need help repairing, rebuilding, testing, or reconditioning process equipment? Tell Aaron Equipment about your machinery, current condition, and desired outcome, and the shop team can help determine the next step.
For the fastest response, include as much detail as possible about the equipment and what you want the reconditioning work to accomplish.
Frequently Asked Questions
Equipment reconditioning is the process of restoring used, worn, or underperforming machinery so it can operate more reliably and extend its useful life. Depending on the equipment, reconditioning may include inspection, cleaning, repair, replacement parts, fabrication, welding, machining, painting, controls work, testing, and other shop services.
Equipment repair typically focuses on fixing a specific issue or failed component, while equipment reconditioning is a more complete process designed to improve the overall condition, function, and reliability of the machine. Reconditioning may include repairs, but it can also involve restoration, modification, testing, and cosmetic improvements.
Aaron Equipment can recondition many types of process and industrial equipment, including centrifuges, extruders, mixers, blenders, dryers, mills, screeners, vacuum pumps, screw presses, dispersers, shredders, and related machinery. The best way to confirm fit is to provide equipment details, photos, condition, and desired outcome.
Equipment reconditioning may be a good option when the machine still has usable life, replacement costs are high, lead times are long, or the equipment can be restored to meet current production needs. Aaron can help evaluate the condition, repair needs, and practical reconditioning path before you decide whether to recondition, replace, or source another machine.
Yes. Aaron Equipment’s shop capabilities include light fabrication, welding, machining, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, controls work, and custom solution design. This allows the team to support equipment that may need specialized machine parts, modifications, or process-specific adjustments.
To help Aaron review your request quickly, include the equipment type, manufacturer, model, photos, current condition, known issues, operating requirements, location, timeline, and desired outcome. If available, include drawings, manuals, part information, or notes about controls, hydraulics, or process requirements.
Savings vary based on equipment type, condition, and project scope, but reconditioning is often significantly less expensive than purchasing new equipment. Reconditioning can also help companies avoid long lead times while extending the useful life of existing machinery.
Yes. Many reconditioning projects include equipment modifications, controls upgrades, replacement components, safety improvements, and other enhancements designed to improve performance, reliability, or operational efficiency.
Aaron Equipment works on a wide range of process and packaging equipment, including centrifuges, extruders, dryers, mixers, blenders, mills, pumps, shredders, screeners, and related industrial machinery.
Yes. Aaron evaluates equipment condition, operational requirements, and project goals before recommending reconditioning, repair, modification, fabrication, or replacement solutions.
Yes. Aaron can design and fabricate specialized machine parts for older equipment, custom machinery, and applications where replacement components are difficult to source or no longer available.
Project timelines vary depending on equipment type, condition, required repairs, parts availability, and project complexity. After reviewing the equipment and project scope, Aaron can provide a more accurate timeline and recommended next steps.
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