Device and metal share a flag, not a packet
Open the city directory, then buy a manufacturing business in Texas. Census CBP 2023 put Texas at rank 2 with 21,034 manufacturing establishments and 869,062 jobs. Average employees per establishment is 41.3. Under-20 share is 69.0%. The 500-plus share is 1.16%. The national file is 284,452 shops. Those numbers travel with the closing state. They do not become an Austin shop count. BLS CES exists for the metro; this site does not print a CES cell.
A buyer who has not written a process line should stay on buy a manufacturing business. Opening Austin because the MSA nickname is loud is not a strategy. Electronics and devices, fabricated metal, food, and energy-adjacent equipment are qualitative clusters. Confirm any NAICS count before it lands in a buybox. A Round Rock device shop and an east-side metal plant share Texas cells. They do not share a diligence letter.
How it works stays unnamed teaser, NDA, staged room, scripted visit. Ask for the quality binder and the concentration schedule before you ask for a dock tour. Device files leak through a certificate clerk. Metal files leak through a buyer who already quotes the same account.
Write the process line first. ISO 13485, customer-owned designs, and a device quality system are one letter. Release-based metal and a job-shop backlog are another. A searcher who wants “any Austin book” will bounce off that split.
Round Rock vs east-side metal
Round Rock and San Marcos are commute pins on Texas’s 21,034-shop file. The east side and Pflugerville tell you where the first tour sits. Those pins are not an “Austin tech” multiple. Device quality systems and release-based metal are different letters. Mini-WARN is N — do not copy New York or California thresholds onto a Texas deed. Federal 100 / 60 still sits. If a fringe deed ever left Texas, that other state’s buy page would own the overlay.
Mini-WARN is N. Do not copy New York or California thresholds onto a Texas deed. Federal WARN still tests 100 full-time employees and 60 days (29 U.S.C. § 2101). Write the federal test into the first memo if headcount including temps can clear the line. Environmental transfer is N. Bulk / successor is F. Sales tax on M&E is MfgEx / Occ. A CPA in the closing state owns the exemption sentence. Put it next to the working-capital peg.
Jason Taken is a business broker. TREC posture in 2026 secondary sources: business assets without real estate generally not real-estate brokerage; confirm if the plant transfers. Conveying dirt still needs a licensed real-estate broker in Texas.
A Gulf buybox that still shares Texas cells is buy a manufacturing business in Houston. A north-Texas comparison is buy a manufacturing business in Dallas.
| Packet split | What to write in the buybox | What not to write |
|---|---|---|
| Device | Quality system, customer-owned design, certificate stack | “Austin tech premium” |
| Metal | Release mix, steel pass-through, job-shop concentration | “Same packet as device” |
| Capital | 7(a) $5 million / 10% injection | A downtown leverage add |
| Notice | Mini-WARN N; federal 100/60 remains | A Pflugerville holiday |
| Count | Texas 21,034 shops, state file | An invented Austin print |
Where does the SBA 10% injection sit on a Texas file?
On the 7(a) change-of-ownership box, not on a city premium. SBA 7(a) for manufacturing acquisitions remains a $5 million box with a 10% injection under SOP 50 10 8 (Source: SBA). Standby-note credit toward the injection is narrow. If a San Marcos metal file cannot live there, say so before you spend a quarter chasing a downtown teaser. 504 still offers $5 million / $5.5 million on eligible plant and heavy equipment.
Manufacturing business valuation still names the size band. BizBuySell’s manufacturing median is 2.75x SDE on about $268k discretionary. The 223-day median is a planning number. A device quality hold and a stale Phase I can outrun it. IBBA Q1 2026’s 83% of deals over $5 million drawing three or more offers is a large-file process fact. It is not a promise that a 41.3-person shop will see three bids.
BLS OEWS May 2025 national medians — machinist $58,750, welder $53,750 — stay national. This page will not invent an Austin wage. August 2026 ISM PMI 54.6 and July 2026 Fed utilization 76.0% are climate prints. They do not become a Hill Country add.
San Marcos as a label, not a turn
All Appropriate Inquiries still apply when dirt or a wet process history sits in the deal (Source: EPA / 40 C.F.R. Part 312). Book Phase I before you fall in love with an east-side coating line or a Pflugerville tank. ASTM E1527-21 is the practice standard. Components generally stale after 180 days. “Env. transfer N” is not a skip.
Write whether you will sit in the plant. A 41.3-person average shop often needs an operator on the floor. A searcher who wants a remote holdco and a weekend flight will bounce off that average. The MSA label does not hire a plant manager for you.
Customer-owned designs and the 180-day Phase I
A device file with customer-owned designs is a different letter than a job-shop metal file with a steel pass-through. Write that split before you name Round Rock. ISO 13485, a quality hold, and a customer-owned drawing package belong in the first room. Release schedules and unbilled hours belong in the first room on a metal file. A searcher who wants “any Austin book” will bounce off the first clerk.
Phase I components generally stale after 180 days. Book the inquiry before you fall in love with an east-side coating line. Do not treat “env. transfer N” as a skip. Coatings, solvents, tanks, and electronics chemistry still need an Environmental Professional. Put the inquiry next to the working-capital peg so the injection and a Phase II rec do not fight.
2026 secondary sources still treat a going-concern sale without dirt as generally outside TREC brokerage. Confirm if the plant transfers. Jason Taken is a business broker. Conveying a Pflugerville deed still needs a licensed real-estate broker. Write that split in the buybox.
Concentration still kills a 41.3-person average shop. Three accounts that can walk are three accounts. Name the stay plan for the quality clerk before you name a San Marcos street. Mini-WARN N does not retire federal WARN. Write 100 / 60 if headcount including temps can clear the line.
Climate prints already sat above. They still do not become a Hill Country add. Tariff and HTS status change. Confirm them before a buybox pretends a steel or resin pass-through is settled. Stanford / Ravenscraft is not a job-shop law. Opening Austin because the MSA nickname is loud is not a strategy.
The seller-side sibling is sell a manufacturing business in Austin. A Round Rock device shop with customer-owned designs is a different capital path than a San Marcos metal shop with a steel pass-through. Write both paths before you name Pflugerville. If the device file sits above the 7(a) box, say so. If the metal file lives there, write the 10% injection in the same memo as mini-WARN N. Counsel confirms TREC posture if the plant transfers. Downtown rent still is not a manufacturing multiple.
Write whether you will sit through a device quality-hold week before you name Round Rock. Customer-owned designs are not a San Marcos release week. They share a Texas flag. They do not share a first-year calendar.
Counsel still confirms mini-WARN N on a Pflugerville deed.
ISO 13485 packets versus a San Marcos steel pass-through
A Round Rock device shop with customer-owned designs and ISO 13485 is a stay file for the quality clerk. A San Marcos metal shop with a steel pass-through is a stay file for the estimator. Houston energy-adjacent equipment and Dallas metal share Texas cells and do not share this packet. Downtown rent is a real-estate fact. It is not a manufacturing multiple.
Confirm the TREC split if dirt moves. The $5 million 7(a) box does not grow because the MSA nickname is loud. Climate prints already sat above. They still do not become a Hill Country add.
Confirm cells with counsel. HedgeStone will not invent a listing to fill a thin Hill Country search. The conversion path is a confidential intro call once the buybox names a process letter, a seat, an inquiry calendar, and a capital path.