Everett aerospace and Kent fab need different boxes
The city directory and the Washington buy page hold the overlay. Census CBP 2023 counted 6,586 Washington manufacturing establishments and 264,782 jobs. Average headcount is 40.2. Under-20 share is 72.4%. The 500-plus share is 0.84%. No Puget Sound shop census appears here. CES metro employment exists at BLS and stays unquoted.
Buy a manufacturing business wants the process line first. Everett aerospace-adjacent work prices AS9100, program managers, and ITAR / EAR when the work requires it. Kent fab prices fixtures and concentration. Tacoma food or wood is a third box. Bellevue industrial fringe is a commute sentence, not a fourth multiple.
First national-fact sentence: SBA 7(a) remains a $5 million box with a 10% injection under SOP 50 10 8. SBA 7(a) for manufacturing acquisitions is the national write-up. A seller note rarely fills that 10%.
Bellevue industrial fringe is still Washington
The nickname does not change the overlay. Second national-fact sentence: All Appropriate Inquiries still apply when tanks, coatings, or food wastewater sit in the history (Source: EPA / 40 C.F.R. Part 312). Environmental transfer is N. Book Phase I. ASTM E1527-21 is the practice. A 180-day stale clock is real.
Third: BizBuySell manufacturing medians remain 2.75x SDE on the 2021–2025 sold set and 223 days in the 2025 review. Those prints travel. They are not an Everett quote.
Fourth: federal WARN is 100 full-time employees and 60 days if you later cut. Washington mini-WARN is listed Y. Write both clocks if the thesis includes a consolidation.
| Box you claim to be writing | Week-one facts | What I-5 will not supply |
|---|---|---|
| Everett aerospace-adjacent | AS9100, program seat, ITAR if required | A Puget Sound multiple |
| Kent fab | Machine list, fixtures, whale ceiling | A city shop count |
| Tacoma food or wood | Slots or fiber, labor bench | A CES employment print |
| Bellevue fringe | Same WA cells; named commute | A different mini-WARN cell |
AS9100 facts before a Puget Sound tour
Ask for certificate status before you book the plant. A lapsed AS9100 is a customer problem first. Manufacturing business valuation still opens with size band. Most of Washington’s 6,586 shops sit under 20 employees. A searcher who needs a hired GM on a 40.2-person average shop should say so before touring an owner-operator Kent cell.
Write the working-capital peg against the process. Aerospace E&O lives in program inventory and customer-owned tools. Food E&O lives in code dates. IBBA Q1 2026’s 83% of deals over $5 million drawing three or more offers helps a large aerospace-adjacent file and does nothing for a $245k-SDE fab shop. August 2026 ISM 54.6 and July 2026 Fed utilization 76.0% stay in one clause.
Historic RCW license listing: confirm current status. Jason Taken is a business broker. Counsel reads who marketed the file. Successor is F. MfgEx / Occ still sit on equipment. National OEWS May 2025 medians — machinist $58,750, welder $53,750 — are the wage prints. Open the plant’s burdened payroll.
Which capital path fits a 40.2-person Washington shop?
Name it. The $5 million 7(a) box with a 10% injection, a 504 project that needs Tacoma occupancy, or cash. Silence is not a path. Related-party rent that looks cheap in Kent is a gift to your first model and a problem after the wire.
How it works still means unnamed copy until NDA. Ask for the recast, the machine list, the Phase I budget, and the certificate status before an Everett morning. Leave a customer-audit week alone.
Kent night-shift seats belong in the buybox
A Kent fab shop that cannot name a night lead is not a two-shift story. Write the seat before you drive I-5. Everett aerospace-adjacent letters need a program manager and AS9100 status. Tacoma food letters need sanitation. Bellevue fringe is a commute sentence on the same Washington cells. Do not run one ask-list on all four.
Collect a recast, a serialized machine list, and certificate status before an Everett morning. Recast related-party rent to market. If tanks or coatings sit in the history, budget Phase I even though Washington env transfer is N. SBA operators test the $5 million box. A 504 project that needs a Tacoma bay is a second conversation. Searchers ask whether a GM already exists on a 40.2-person average plant. Strategics price AS9100. Do not name funds. Confirm current RCW licensing on who marketed the file.
IBBA’s 83% three-offer print helps a large aerospace-adjacent file. It does not rescue a $245k-SDE fab shop. Mini-WARN Y and federal 100/60 belong on any cut thesis. Quiet diligence still means unnamed copy until NDA. Skip a customer-audit week. Write whether you will live in the plant. A 72.4% under-20 share means most Washington shops still have an owner on the floor.
If the teaser said Seattle and the deed left Washington, stop. Statute follows the address.
How an Everett aerospace file fails a Kent fab ask-list
An Everett aerospace-adjacent file will fail a Kent fab ask-list before lunch. Aerospace wants AS9100 and a program seat. Kent fab wants fixtures and an estimator. Tacoma food wants inspections. Write one packet. Then write whether you will live in the plant.
Keep program names in the room until NDA. An Everett AS9100 audit week is a terrible first plant walk. If Kent’s only estimator is the seller, the $5 million box can still fit and the night shift can still be fiction. Layer Washington mini-WARN Y and federal 100/60 before anyone writes a consolidation thesis.
Historic RCW license listing still needs a current confirm. Washington mini-WARN Y and federal 100/60 both sit on an Everett cut thesis. EPA AAI still scopes Kent fab chemistry. SBA $5 million / 10% is not a Tacoma 504 answer. BizBuySell 2.75x is a national SDE band, not a Puget Sound climate print.
Bellevue industrial-fringe rent is a recast, not an Everett gate
Bellevue industrial-fringe rent that looks cheap because a related party owns the bay will break the first model. Recast it to market before you talk SDE. Everett aerospace-adjacent letters need AS9100 status and a program seat after NDA, not a Bellevue rent story. Kent fab letters need fixture ownership and an estimator. Tacoma food letters need inspections and a lease-assignment sentence if the bay does not transfer.
Census CBP 2023 is a Washington state file — 6,586 establishments, 264,782 employees, 40.2-person average, 72.4% under 20, 0.84% at 500+. Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA is a sourcing label. This page does not invent a Puget Sound count. Mini-WARN Y and federal 100/60 both belong on a cut thesis. Historic RCW license listing still needs a current confirm. ITAR stays in the room.
EPA AAI still scopes Kent chemistry. SBA $5 million / 10% is not a Tacoma 504 occupancy answer. Read the 504 plant write-up if you need the bay; do not blend it into 7(a). BizBuySell 2.75x is a national SDE band. Ask who the customer actually calls. Write whether you will live in the plant. Skip a program-audit week. Jason Taken is a business broker. Counsel confirms current licensing and AAI.
Tacoma food assignment language belongs in the letter before a Kent tour
If the Tacoma bay does not transfer, write assignment, remaining term, and holdover before anyone drives to Kent. Kent fab letters still need fixtures. Everett aerospace-adjacent letters still need AS9100 after NDA. Bellevue industrial fringe still recasts related-party rent. Those four sentences share Washington cells. They do not share a morning.
Census CBP 2023 remains Washington’s 6,586-shop / 264,782-employee / 40.2-person file. 72.4% under 20. 0.84% at 500+. Mini-WARN Y and federal 100/60 both belong on a cut thesis. Historic RCW license listing still needs a current confirm. EPA AAI still scopes Kent chemistry. SBA $5 million / 10% is not a 504 occupancy answer. BizBuySell 2.75x is a national SDE band. Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA is a sourcing label. This page does not invent a Puget Sound count.
Mini-WARN Y attaches to the Everett plant, not the airframe
The 2026 table marks Washington mini-WARN Y. Counsel confirms the statute against the Everett or Kent address. Do not invent a headcount. Federal 100/60 still layers if you later cut or move work. A 40.2-person average shop may miss both tests. A plant in the 0.84% 500-plus tail may trip both. Write the clocks before anyone drafts a consolidation thesis that folds Kent fab into an Everett aerospace-adjacent cell.
Aerospace-adjacent work prices AS9100, a named program seat after NDA, and ITAR / EAR when the work requires it. Kent fab prices fixtures and an estimator who will stay. Tacoma food or wood is a third box. Bellevue industrial fringe is a commute sentence on the same 6,586-shop / 264,782-employee CBP 2023 row. 72.4% under 20. Those packets share Washington cells. They do not share a buybox.
Historic RCW license listing still needs a current confirm. Jason Taken is a business broker. Counsel reads who marketed the file. Environmental transfer is N. Budget Phase I on Kent coolants and Tacoma food wastewater anyway. Successor is F. MfgEx / Occ still sit on equipment. A 504 project that needs a Tacoma bay is occupancy, not a 7(a) slogan. If the teaser said Seattle and the deed left Washington, stop.
The sibling door is sell a manufacturing business in Seattle. Book a confidential intro call when the two boxes, the mini-WARN calendar, and the capital path can travel.