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Yes, core making machines are financed as a standard asset purchase, usually on hire purchase or a lease, with the machine itself acting as the security. UK prices typically run £25,000 to £300,000, and most deals are written over 12–84 months with a deposit of around 10–20%. Decisions typically take 24–48 hours. Used machines are financeable too, usually with a shorter term.
Typical Cost
£25k – £300k
Approval Speed
24–48 hours
Same-day for < £100k
Rates From
4.5% APR
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Check EligibilityOn a purchase price of £90,000: a 10% deposit of £9,000, then 48 monthly payments of £1,899 at 5.9% APR representative (fixed). Total amount payable £100,152, including the deposit. The rate you are offered depends on your business and the asset.
Guide prices for sizing a finance agreement, not quotes. Manufacturers in this market mostly price on application, so where a current UK list price could not be confirmed the row describes a specification class rather than naming a model. Your supplier quote is what the agreement is written against.
| Machine or specification | Guide price | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Cold-box core shooter, small tonnage | £25,000 – £80,000 | Small Cold-Box Core Shooter (specification class) |
| Cold-box core shooter, medium tonnage with gassing | £80,000 – £180,000 | Medium Core Shooter (specification class) |
| High-output automated core making cell | £180,000 – £300,000 | Automated Core Making Cell (specification class) |
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Check EligibilityCore making machines qualify for Annual Investment Allowance (AIA), meaning you can deduct the full cost from taxable profits in the year of purchase, up to £1,000,000 for qualifying plant and machinery. HP agreements let you claim capital allowances on the asset; lease payments are generally deducted as an operating expense over the term.
Core making machines are bought by sand-casting foundries to produce the sand cores used to form internal cavities in a casting, typically using a cold-box or hot-box process with resin-bonded sand. Furnaces and heat treatment plant are heavy, need a significant electrical supply, and often require planning or environmental permitting for emissions before the site can operate the equipment. Installation and commissioning, including the electrical infeed, foundations and any flue or abatement work, is frequently a large share of the total project cost, and is not always financeable on the same agreement as the equipment itself. Cold-box core shooters use amine gas curing, which needs its own gas handling and scrubbing system, and this is a meaningful part of the installation alongside the machine itself. Buyers finance a core making machine because core supply is often the limiting factor on how much casting a foundry can produce, so upgrading from a manual or small core shooter to a higher-output or automated cell is driven by needing to keep pace with melting and moulding capacity elsewhere in the foundry, with the finance matched to that overall production increase. Replacement is usually driven by needing more shots per hour or the ability to run larger or more complex core boxes, rather than the machine wearing out, since the frame and tooling clamp are heavy-duty; the core boxes themselves are separate, part-specific tooling.
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