Its all about the current management (back at my last job) we bought a company that made the same product as us they had 6 plants unclad laminates (printed circuit boards) one of the manufacturing plants was about 60 miles from us... after the sale, I was told to drive up there get what I wanted and make sure that none of the equipment would ever run again, I pulled all the PLC's, they later had a scrap metal company come in and cut it all up, 4 of their treaters were over 6 stories tall, guessing they were worth a few mill each
The same thing happened when I worked for IP and they closed the plant, they did not want to sell the equipment so anything that another plants did not want they cut up into little pieces, it took over a year but we cut up a few large printing presses
The money waisted....