Manufacturing

At a Glance Access to a CFO or COO is treated as a function of the relationship manager's own title, when it is actually a...

At a Glance CNC machining centers and turning centers are among the longest-lived assets in equipment finance. A well-maintained vertical machining center from 2006 is...

Machine tool finance is where the equipment finance industry keeps its oldest instincts. The collateral — CNC mills, lathes, machining centers, grinders — is the...

At a Glance 48% of equipment dealers report losing at least one sale in the prior 12 months because their finance partner could not structure...

The commercial equipment finance sector is at a strategic inflection point. For decades, the industry successfully operated by hiring talented generalist underwriters—individuals who mastered the...

For years, the automation story in equipment finance was framed mostly around cost savings. Today, the narrative is different. In sector after sector, the driver...

A distributor in Ohio just financed $2.8M in warehouse automation equipment—autonomous mobile robots, conveyor extensions, and a sortation system upgrade. Their equipment lessor asked the...

Bottom Line Up Front: The One Big Beautiful Bill Act's expansion of Section 179 from $1M to $2.5M, combined with new multi-entity provisions and permanent...

Bottom Line Up Front: The restoration of immediate R&D expensing combined with new Qualified Production Property (QPP) provisions creates a manufacturing and technology equipment finance...

The phone calls started within hours of President Trump signing the Big Beautiful Bill Act into law on July 15th. Equipment financiers across the country...