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Margot Machinery Inc.'s Scotia warehouse is like an industrial graveyard.
"IBM at one time was running 10 of these," said Wayne Ellett, pointing to a 30-foot-long oven once used to make typewriter ribbons.
Ellett, a small, sandy-haired man with glasses, is the president of Margot Machinery, a company that scours plant closures and auctions, scoops up used machinery and sells it.
As Ellett walks through his company's warehouse, he points out machines, what they make, what closed plants they came from and where they're going.
Increasingly, his sales are international.
"I can see it moving away from the U.S.," said Ellett, who started in industrial machinery 23 years ago selling equipment for Black Clawson in Fulton, Schoharie County.
After leaving the company, he started as an industrial machinery broker and gradually developed the used machinery business. Margot Machinery has been in business for 10 years.
Over the last few years, Margot Machinery has been building customers in Indonesia, Malaysia and Mexico. The company now has agents in South Africa and Russia.
Just this year, half of Margot Machinery's $6 million in...