FOR INDUSTRIAL BUYERS
Tell us exactly what you need.
The parts hardest to source are rarely unavailable. They are sitting in someone else's warehouse, recorded under an internal number that no search engine has ever seen. Describe what you need precisely, and the request stays active against incoming supply.
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Free to submit. No account required. Verified business sellers only.
Submit a part request
The more precise the identifier, the better the chance of a match. A manufacturer plus a part number beats a description every time. If you have a bill of materials, upload it and skip the typing.
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WHAT CAN BE REQUESTED
Industrial goods, not consumer stock.
The network is business-to-business and industrial by design. If your item belongs to one of these families, a request is worth submitting.
- Discontinued parts
- Obsolete spare parts
- Surplus components
- MRO consumables
- Electrical and automation parts
- Raw and processed materials
- Semi-finished goods
- Project-specific components
- Machine spares after modernisation
Regulated and restricted categories are excluded or gated for expert review. Medicines, food, weapons, radioactive material and recalled goods are outside the scope entirely.
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT
How a request becomes a match.
Five steps, and the last one matters most: nothing is presented to you as available until a seller has approved a real offer behind it.
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- 01
You submit an identifier
Manufacturer, part number, EAN, an internal legacy number, or a bill of materials as a file.
- 02
The identifier is normalised
Separators, formatting and known superseded numbers are resolved, so two spellings of the same part meet.
- 03
Supply is checked
Both approved offers already in the network and candidate inventory being prepared are examined.
- 04
You are alerted
If a matching approved offer exists or appears later, you are notified with condition, documentation and available quantity.
- 05
You review and decide
Condition, documents and quantity are visible before any commitment. A request never becomes an obligation.
A diagram showing identifier types feeding a normalisation step and a supply check, which branches either to a match that alerts the buyer or to no match today with the request staying active, annotated that nothing is shown as available before a seller-approved offer exists.
WHAT PROTECTS YOU
Sourcing from surplus should not mean sourcing blind.
Verified business sellers
Every participant is a verified business entity. There is no consumer side and no anonymous seller.
Approved product data
What you see was reviewed by the seller, not scraped and published automatically.
Condition stated explicitly
Condition and packaging state are part of the offer, not something you discover on delivery.
Documentation where it exists
Datasheets and certificates are attached to the offer when the seller holds them. Where they do not exist, that is stated rather than implied.
Restricted categories excluded
Regulated goods are out of scope or gated. The network does not quietly move things it should not.
No availability without an offer
You are never shown a match until a seller has approved a real, priced offer behind it.
IF THERE IS NO MATCH TODAY
A request with no match is not a dead end.
Most industrial requests do not match on the day they are submitted, because the matching supply has not yet been prepared for release. Your request stays active and is checked against every new approved offer. If you consented to alerts, you hear from us when that changes. If the identifier was ambiguous, we will ask you to refine it rather than guess. What you will never receive is a list of approximate results assembled to look like a catalogue.
In development
Uploading a bill of materials significantly improves matching, because it gives context that a single part number cannot.
Buyer questions.
Can I request a part that is not currently listed?
Yes, and that is the intended use. There is no public catalogue to browse. You describe what you need and the request is held against both current approved offers and inventory being prepared for release.
Which identifiers help most?
A manufacturer name together with a manufacturer part number is the strongest combination. An EAN or GTIN is equally good where one exists. An internal or legacy number from your own system is still useful, because sellers often hold the same item under a superseded number.
Can I upload a bill of materials?
Yes. CSV, XLSX and PDF are accepted, up to 10 MB. A BOM gives context that a single part number cannot, and it saves you entering items one at a time.
Are sellers verified?
Yes. Participation is limited to verified business entities. There is no consumer side to this network and no anonymous listing.
Do you guarantee availability?
No. A request is a request. You are notified only when a seller has approved a real offer with a stated condition, quantity and price. Anything else would be a guess presented as inventory.
Can I ask for specific documentation?
Yes. State which documents you need, such as a datasheet, a declaration of conformity or a material certificate, and that requirement travels with the request. Where a seller cannot supply them, you are told before you commit.
What happens if my part is matched?
You receive the offer with condition, packaging state, available quantity, documentation and price. You review it and decide. Nothing is reserved and nothing is charged before you confirm.
What do you do with the data in my request?
It is used to search for a match and to contact you about it. Part numbers and company names are treated as commercially sensitive: they are never sent to analytics and never published. Retention and deletion are covered in the privacy notice.