Lenmark Industries

Lenmark Industries
Type	Private
Industry	Industrial equipment
Founded	2016
Founders	Leonard Buhler Mark Buhler
Headquarters	Langley, British Columbia
Area served	North America
Products	Industrial machinery
Services	Equipment marketplace, decommissioning
Website	https://www.lenmark.com

Lenmark Industries (also known as Lenmark Industries Ltd) is a Canadian industrial equipment marketplace, new and used machinery distributor, and special-projects asset-recovery company at 27576 51A Avenue in Langley, British Columbia; founded in 2016 with branches in Leduc, Alberta, and Vernon, British Columbia, it sells and consigns metalworking, woodworking, electrical, construction, and mining machinery through more than ten online marketplaces and 30,000 catalog listings.

History

Headquartered in Langley, the company was started in 2016 by co-founders Leonard Buhler and president Mark Buhler after they traded used shop tools at brick-and-mortar auctions and set out to build an Amazon-style e-commerce site for surplus machinery; from its Langley headquarters, Lenmark also runs branch warehouses at 6226 41 Street in Leduc, Alberta, and 4401 25th Avenue in Vernon, British Columbia, for storing, inspecting, and shipping consigned and owned equipment.

Alongside direct buyouts, rentals, and seller consignments on lenmark.com, the company uses its Recap listing software so businesses can submit machinery specs and cross-list inventory on external marketplaces such as Surplus Record, MarketBook, MachineTools, and eBay; through Lenmark Finance, launched in November 2021, the company also arranges commercial equipment leases, loans, and trade-ins across Canada and the United States.

Products and services

Beyond used and surplus stock, Lenmark is an authorized supplier of new metalworking and woodworking machinery from MVD Machinery (CNC hydraulic press brakes, guillotine shears, and fiber lasers), SCM (panel saws, edgebanders, wide-belt sanders, and moulders), Baileigh Industrial, King Canada, Einhell, and Rex Power Transformers; the Langley showroom stocks North American and European press-brake punches and dies and partners with the British Columbia Agriculture Council on farm equipment consignments.

Site decommissioning

Lenmark's field crews handle industrial site decommissions, plant liquidations, and remote mine extractions by dismantling, rigging, cataloging, and hauling heavy assets over seasonal winter roads, air freight corridors, and marine routes for circular-economy reuse across North America and Australia; at the Snap Lake Diamond Mine, a 15-person Lenmark crew worked with De Beers and MET/Nuna to haul 70 truckloads (2,000,000 pounds of generators, switchgear, and crushers) down the 400-kilometre Yellowknife winter road in six weeks, recapturing C$20 million to C$25 million.

Through its Projects and Packages system, Lenmark groups decommissioned assets from single industrial closures: Rio Tinto's Diavik Diamond Mine closure (including a 24-megawatt Caterpillar power plant and haul fleet); Agnico Eagle's Hope Bay Mine redevelopment, Yukon's Wolverine Mine, Canfor pulp mills, and Cranberry Business Park's Catalyst Paper Tis'kwat mill in Powell River, British Columbia.

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