Indiana Transformer Buyers
Direct buyer of surplus, used and failed transformers throughout Indiana. 15 kVA to 100 MVA, any condition, same-day nameplate pricing — payment upfront before loading and all freight and rigging at our cost.

| Cities covered | 146 |
|---|---|
| Ratings | 15 kVA – 100 MVA |
| Freight & rigging | Our cost |
| Payment | Upfront, before loading |
| Testing | Not required |
Buying Transformers in Indiana
Utility territory and equipment supply
Distribution equipment in Indiana comes off systems operated by AES Indiana, Duke Energy Indiana, NIPSCO, Indiana Michigan Power, Hoosier Energy and their municipal and cooperative neighbours, which means most of what we see here is standard-voltage, well-documented and genuinely resaleable. northwest Indiana's integrated steel mills run the heaviest industrial electrical infrastructure in the Midwest, which produces large station-class units as lines are retired
What generates surplus equipment here
steel production in the Calumet region, automotive and RV manufacturing around Elkhart and Kokomo, pharmaceutical operations in Indianapolis, and aluminum smelting Each of those situations releases transformers on a schedule that has nothing to do with the equipment market — a demolition mobilization, a service upgrade, an outage window — which is exactly when a buyer who can commit to a date matters more than one who can quibble over a price.
Freight lanes across Indiana
I-65, I-70 and I-69 with Indianapolis as a natural consolidation point, and Lake Michigan ports at Burns Harbor for oversize We build routes rather than sending a truck for a single item, so a pickup in a remote part of the state is combined with other regional freight instead of being discounted for distance. Distance does not reduce your offer and the haul never appears on your invoice, because there is no invoice — you are paid, in full, before we load.
Removal scope in every county
Crane or boom truck, rigging crew, spill containment sized to the unit's oil volume, oversize and street-occupancy permits, escorts and heavy-haul trucking are all our cost. Conduit cut and capped, anchor bolts cut flush, pad left broom-clean. Nights, weekends and planned outage windows are available.
Equipment We Buy in Indiana
Padmount Transformers
Pad-mounted distribution transformers are the single most liquid item we buy. A dead-front loop-feed unit in the 75 to 2500 kVA range with a legible nameplate and a sound tank can be priced from photographs the same day.
75 kVA – 5000 kVA300+ oil-filled units purchased annuallyOil-Filled Transformers
Liquid-filled units — mineral oil, silicone or ester — from 25 kVA pole-mounts up to 20 MVA power transformers. Oil is not a problem for us; containment, testing and disposal are part of what we do.
25 kVA – 20 MVA120–160 dry-type units handled per yearDry-Type Transformers
Ventilated, sealed and cast-coil dry-type units from 15 kVA control transformers up to 5000 kVA unit substation sections. Copper-wound units carry a materially higher offer than aluminum.
15 kVA – 5000 kVA40–60 substation-class units per yearSubstation Transformers
Station-class and power transformers from 1 MVA to 100 MVA, including units with load tap changers, radiator banks and conservator tanks. These are heavy-haul projects and we run them end to end.
1 MVA – 100 MVALots of 10 to 400 units purchased at a timePole-Mount Transformers
Single-phase and three-phase overhead distribution transformers, 5 kVA to 500 kVA. This is a volume item — we buy them by the pallet and by the trailer load out of utility and co-op surplus programs.
5 kVA – 500 kVA25–40 complete lineups per yearUnit Substations
Complete primary-transformer-secondary lineups: incoming section, transformer, and low-voltage switchgear or switchboard bolted as one assembly. We buy them whole and we buy them by the section.
300 kVA – 5000 kVAIndiana Cities We Cover
We purchase throughout Indiana — all 146 communities below, plus the unincorporated areas between them. Pick the nearest city for local utility context, access notes and freight detail.
- Alexandria
- Anderson 80,597
- Angola
- Auburn
- Avon
- Bargersville
- Batesville
- Bedford
- Beech Grove
- Bloomington 107,655
- Bluffton
- Boonville
- Brazil
- Bremen
- Bright
- Brownsburg
- Carmel 101,651
- Cedar Lake
- Charlestown
- Chesterton
- Cicero
- Clarksville
- Clinton
- Columbia City
- Columbus 51,824
- Connersville
- Crawfordsville
- Crown Point
- Cumberland
- Danville
- Decatur
- Dunlap
- Dyer
- East Chicago
- Edinburgh
- Elkhart 149,701
- Ellettsville
- Elwood
- Evansville 204,607
- Fishers 102,337
- Floyds Knobs
- Fort Wayne 339,694
- Fortville
- Frankfort
- Franklin
- Garrett
- Gary 68,113
- Gas City
- Goshen
- Granger
- Greencastle
- Greenfield
- Greensburg
- Greenwood 66,029
- Griffith
- Hammond 76,768
- Hartford City
- Hidden Valley
- Highland
- Hobart
- Huntertown
- Huntingburg
- Huntington
- Indianapolis 1,767,321
- Jasper
- Jeffersonville 51,043
- Kendallville
- Kokomo 59,122
- La Porte
- Lafayette 165,110
- Lake Station
- Lakes of the Four Seasons
- Lawrence
- Lawrenceburg
- Lebanon
- Ligonier
- Linton
- Logansport
- Lowell
- Madison
- Marion
- Martinsville
- McCordsville
- Merrillville
- Michigan City 72,294
- Mishawaka 51,021
- Monticello
- Mooresville
- Mount Vernon
- Muncie 85,519
- Munster
- Nappanee
- New Albany
- New Castle
- New Haven
- New Whiteland
- Noblesville 73,362
- North Manchester
- North Terre Haute
- North Vernon
- Notre Dame
- Pendleton
- Peru
- Pittsboro
- Plainfield
- Plymouth
- Portage
- Porter
- Portland
- Princeton
- Rensselaer
- Richmond
- Rochester
- Ross
- Rushville
- Salem
- Schererville
- Scottsburg
- Sellersburg
- Seymour
- Shelbyville
- Simonton Lake
- South Bend 279,977
- South Haven
- Speedway
- St. John
- Sullivan
- Tell City
- Terre Haute 80,554
- Tipton
- Valparaiso
- Vincennes
- Wabash
- Warsaw
- Washington
- West Lafayette
- Westfield 54,677
- Westville
- Whiteland
- Whitestown
- Whiting
- Winchester
- Winfield
- Winona Lake
- Yorktown
- Zionsville
Tell us what you have and where it is in Indiana. Firm number, usually the same business day.
Transformer to move in Indiana?
Payment upfront before loading, no testing required, all freight and rigging covered.