Know which plants are closing before their transformers hit the market.
New pad-mounts quote nine to fifteen months out. Used ones get bid up the day they’re listed, because every dealer watches the same listings. Padfinder watches the plants instead — plant-closure filings across six industrial states, scored for the transformers you buy, in your inbox the morning we find them.
A real lead from our radar. It reached the worklist the morning the notice was filed — weeks before the closure date, and before this plant appeared on any listing site.
How it works
| We watch | Public plant-closure filings across Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois and New York, every morning. |
| We qualify | Each filing is scored for whether that facility likely holds pad-mount transformers in your range. Offices and retail never reach you. |
| We locate | Every lead is measured to your yards, not ours: haul distance, plus the distance to the nearest NETA test shop. A closure 44 miles out reads differently than one 340 miles out, and your list knows it. |
| We deliver | A ranked digest in your inbox each morning there’s something worth working, with the plant contact where the filing names one. Your purchasing team works the list; one click marks a lead called, dead, or acquired. |
What makes it different
What you get
| Every closure, scored | Every qualifying closure filing across six states, scored against the kVA range and voltage you actually buy. Not a feed you filter. A list built for your spec. |
| Your geography | Haul distance from each closure to your yards, plus the distance to the nearest NETA test shop. The map is drawn around your facilities, not ours. |
| The contact | Where the filing names a person, you get the name, title and number. |
| The worklist | Your purchasing team’s page: every lead, ranked, with one-click status — called, dead, acquired. The pipeline can never overwrite what your team marks. |
| The record | A monthly summary to the owner: what the radar found, what got worked, what got acquired. What you’re paying for, in writing, every month. |
| The spec call | We set your kVA range and voltage by phone before your first digest. Ten minutes, once. No forms, no onboarding maze. |
Where this is going
Plant-closure filings are the first signal, not the last. Bankruptcy filings are next — the plants too small to file a notice, invisible to every listing site and every competitor watching the same public data.
Behind that: direct supply. Liquidators and closing plants listing units with us directly — confirmed equipment with nameplate photos, not probabilities. When a confirmed unit matches your spec, you see the plate.
Founding subscribers get every new source as it ships, at the same $500. Nothing on this page is a tier. The product grows; the price doesn’t.
Pricing
$500 / month
Every qualifying closure across six states, scored against your spec, delivered to your inbox and worklist. Cancel any time.
$1,500 per unit acquired through a Padfinder introduction. That’s the whole fee schedule — no tiers, no seats, no surprises.
The math is short. A used 1,500 kVA pad-mount trades for $30,000 to $50,000, with thousands in dealer margin. One unit sourced through Padfinder pays for the year several times over — and the $1,500 fee only exists when a lead becomes a unit in your yard. We make money when you do.
See it on your territory first.
We’ll walk you through a live lead in your region, then send two weeks of scored leads matched to your yard — free, as email, no card. If the list earns your purchasing team’s time, we’ll talk.
Book a walkthroughWho we are
Padfinder is run from Chagrin Falls, Ohio. We built the radar to source transformers ourselves — it scores closures the way a buyer would, not the way a data company would.
