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Industrial CAPEX, ROI
& finance calculators.

Evaluate capital expenditure, payback, total cost of ownership and debt capacity before approving a production line or complete factory. Use your own assumptions to compare scenarios; results are planning estimates, not supplier quotes or credit approval.

Evaluate CAPEX, returns and funding requirements.

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Project investment

From production line
to project return.

Estimate ROI, payback and NPV with your own CAPEX and operating figures.

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Project engagement from USD 250,000

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Finance

Indicative screening only — not credit approval or a financing offer.

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CAPEX

Indicative cost structures, not supplier quotes.

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Procurement

Prepare comparable bids before any human-reviewed introduction.

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Facilities

Building and capacity sizing for early planning.

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Import / Trade

Landed-cost view of imported equipment.

Preliminary planning estimates, not quotations or financing approval. Human review before any supplier outreach.

Project financing calculators

How much loan does an industrial project need, and can cash flow repay it? Start with the project simulation, then refine the loan, coverage (DSCR) and debt capacity. Results are indicative planning estimates; Global B2B Group is not a lender, and any financing introduction is to independent partners. Projects qualify for review from USD 250,000, free for buyers.

Industrial Knowledge Hub

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Project ROI, Payback & NPV

Estimate straight-line payback and net present value for an industrial capital project. Inputs are in USD; methodology is discounted cash flow with equal annual cash flows.

Total CAPEX (USD)All one-time project spend: equipment, installation, civil works and commissioning. Example: 3,000,000.Annual Revenue (USD)Yearly sales the line or plant is expected to generate. Example: 2,000,000.Annual Operating Cost (USD)Yearly running cost: labour, energy, maintenance, raw material. Example: 1,250,000.Analysis Horizon (years)How many years of operation you want to evaluate. Example: 10.Discount Rate (%)Your required return or cost of capital; future cash is reduced by this rate each year. Example: 9.

Annual Cash Flow

$750,000

Revenue minus operating cost. Example: 2,000,000 − 1,250,000 = 750,000 per year.

Payback Period

3.3 yrs

Years until cumulative cash flow repays CAPEX. Example: 3,000,000 ÷ 750,000 = 4.0 years.

ROI over 10 yrs

200%

(Total cash flow − CAPEX) ÷ CAPEX. Example: (7,500,000 − 3,000,000) ÷ 3,000,000 = 150%.

NPV @ 9%

$2,313,243

Today’s value of all future cash flows minus CAPEX. Positive means the project beats your discount rate. Example at 9%: about 1,813,243.

Assumes constant annual cash flow, no terminal value, no tax adjustments and no working-capital movements. Use for pre-feasibility only. For committed decisions, request a full project assessment.

Running these numbers for a client? See supplier sourcing for consultants — we support advisors behind the scenes and you keep the client relationship, or read how the consultant procurement toolkit fits into an existing advisory workflow.

Cumulative cash position at horizon: $5,000,000

Qualification tools

Before pricing anything, check whether the project is ready for suppliers and which funding routes are worth exploring. Both tools are estimates only — not quotations, credit decisions or commitments.

RFQ Readiness Score

Ten qualification questions, a 0–100 score and the exact gaps that make quotations non-comparable.

Project & Financing Readiness Checker

Engagement-threshold check plus indicative ECA, DFI, project-finance, bank and leasing verdicts.

Cost of Delay Calculator

What each month of postponement costs: lost contribution, financing carry and price escalation.

Construction cost estimators

Warehouse Construction Cost Calculator

US build cost per ft² by warehouse type, size, clear height and fit-out level.

Cold Storage Cost per ft²

Chilled, frozen and blast freezing planning bands with an inline estimator.

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These calculators are not yet available. Need any of them today? Request early access.

Cold-Storage Capacity Estimator

Convert daily throughput, dwell time and pallet dimensions into refrigerated volume and racking bays.

CAPEX Range Estimator

Reference bands for hatchery, aquaculture, seed-processing and cold-chain facility CAPEX by production scale.

Procurement Timeline Planner

Realistic elapsed weeks from RFQ issue to commissioning for cross-border industrial equipment.

Financing Repayment Simulator

Amortized repayment schedules for ECA-backed, development-bank and commercial project loans.

Knowledge

Which tools structure an industrial project

What each public tool does, who it is for, what it needs and what its output does not guarantee.

What tools can buyers use to structure an industrial project?

Global B2B Group publishes free, no-login project tools: the RFQ Builder for structuring a request, the RFQ readiness score for checking whether a request is complete enough to send, CapEx, ROI, payback and total-cost calculators, a should-cost calculator, a supplier-scoring and proposal-comparison framework, and financing-readiness tools such as the readiness checker and DSCR calculator. Each states its inputs, its output and its limits.

The tools are decision support, not engineering deliverables. They use documented public methodology so a result can be reproduced and challenged by your own team or consultant. Outputs are planning-grade indications, not quotations, valuations or credit decisions.

Limitation
Calculator outputs are indicative only. They are not supplier quotations, cost guarantees, engineering studies or financing approvals.

Procurement calculators Calculator methodology RFQ Builder Financing readiness checker

What should happen before contacting industrial suppliers?

Establish a procurement baseline first. Before manufacturers are approached, define project type, required capacity, country and site location, technical requirements, existing infrastructure and utilities, indicative budget or CapEx range, timeline, expected future expansion, the scope you want included, the documentation you require and your commercial terms. Without that baseline, each supplier quotes its own assumptions and the resulting proposals are not directly comparable.

A practical order: define the project, run the numbers (CapEx, payback, total cost of ownership), check whether the request is RFQ-ready, then structure the RFQ, then research manufacturers. Reaching suppliers before this point usually produces quotations that differ in scope rather than in value.

Limitation
Site surveys, detailed engineering and permitting remain the responsibility of your own engineers, contractors and local authorities.

RFQ readiness score RFQ checklist Procurement calculators

Is the lowest equipment price the lowest project cost?

Not necessarily. The lowest equipment purchase price is not necessarily the lowest project cost. The delivered cost of a project can include purchase price, freight and duties, installation, energy, labour, maintenance, consumables, spare parts, downtime and service over the operating life. A proposal can be cheaper at order and more expensive over five to ten years, particularly where installation scope, energy consumption or proprietary spare parts differ.

Practical method: normalise scope first so the offers describe the same project, then build a simple total-cost model over a defined horizon — purchase + freight + installation + energy + labour + maintenance + consumables + spares + expected downtime + service — using your own tariffs and operating hours. Where the model changes the ranking, document which assumption drives it, so the decision can be reviewed by finance and by the project owner.

Limitation
Total-cost models are planning estimates based on assumptions supplied by you and by manufacturers. No cost saving, payback or operating cost is guaranteed.

Calculator methodology Should-cost calculator Supplier proposal comparison

How should energy consumption be compared between equipment proposals?

Compare specific consumption per unit of output — kWh per tonne, m³ of gas per tonne, litres of water per unit — at a stated operating point, not installed motor power. Ask each supplier for the assumed throughput, product, ambient conditions and duty cycle behind its figure, then apply your own local energy tariffs over the expected operating hours to convert consumption into annual cost.

Installed power is a design figure; it tells you what the connection must support, not what the plant will consume. Two lines with identical installed power can differ materially in real consumption depending on control strategy, heat recovery, insulation and part-load behaviour. Over a ten-year horizon the energy difference can exceed the price difference between the two offers, which is why energy belongs in the total-cost model rather than in a technical annex.

Limitation
Consumption figures are supplier declarations under stated conditions. Actual consumption depends on your product, utilities and operating practice, and is not guaranteed by the platform.

Calculator methodology Procurement calculators Total cost of ownership

For a specification of every public tool — inputs required, output produced and limitations — see the procurement tool directory.

Markets

Industrial project intelligence by country

Investment climate, key industries, financing programs and procurement context — mapped market by market.

Open the full countries directory

Europe

24 markets

Middle East & Türkiye

4 markets

Africa

8 markets

Asia-Pacific

11 markets

Americas

9 markets

Plan a cross-sector or custom machinery project

Use these free resources in any order, then request a project review. The Global B2B Group project team checks the brief and handles supplier outreach on your behalf.

Step 1
Industrial project RFQ platform
How the managed, supplier-neutral RFQ process works for cross-sector and custom machinery projects.
Step 2
RFQ writing guides
What to define before suppliers are contacted, plus the line RFQ and better-RFQ guides.
- How to write an RFQ for a processing line
- Better RFQs for industrial procurement
Step 3 · You are here
CAPEX, OPEX and ROI calculators
Free preliminary estimates to bring into the project brief.
Step 4
RFQ builder
Turn scope, capacity, site and budget into one structured brief.
Step 5 · Next step
Request a project review
Free for buyers. Sourcing support applies to projects from USD 250,000.

Which tools structure an industrial project

What each public tool does, who it is for, what it needs and what its output does not guarantee.

What tools can buyers use to structure an industrial project?

Limitation
Calculator outputs are indicative only. They are not supplier quotations, cost guarantees, engineering studies or financing approvals.

Procurement calculators Calculator methodology RFQ Builder Financing readiness checker

What should happen before contacting industrial suppliers?

Limitation
Site surveys, detailed engineering and permitting remain the responsibility of your own engineers, contractors and local authorities.

RFQ readiness score RFQ checklist Procurement calculators

Is the lowest equipment price the lowest project cost?

Limitation
Total-cost models are planning estimates based on assumptions supplied by you and by manufacturers. No cost saving, payback or operating cost is guaranteed.

Calculator methodology Should-cost calculator Supplier proposal comparison

How should energy consumption be compared between equipment proposals?

Limitation
Consumption figures are supplier declarations under stated conditions. Actual consumption depends on your product, utilities and operating practice, and is not guaranteed by the platform.

Calculator methodology Procurement calculators Total cost of ownership

Project ROI, Payback & NPV

Estimate straight-line payback and net present value for an industrial capital project. Inputs are in USD; methodology is discounted cash flow with equal annual cash flows.

Annual Cash Flow

$750,000

Revenue minus operating cost. Example: 2,000,000 − 1,250,000 = 750,000 per year.

Payback Period

3.3 yrs

Years until cumulative cash flow repays CAPEX. Example: 3,000,000 ÷ 750,000 = 4.0 years.

ROI over 10 yrs

200%

(Total cash flow − CAPEX) ÷ CAPEX. Example: (7,500,000 − 3,000,000) ÷ 3,000,000 = 150%.

NPV @ 9%

$2,313,243

Today’s value of all future cash flows minus CAPEX. Positive means the project beats your discount rate. Example at 9%: about 1,813,243.

Assumes constant annual cash flow, no terminal value, no tax adjustments and no working-capital movements. Use for pre-feasibility only. For committed decisions, request a full project assessment.

Cumulative cash position at horizon: $5,000,000

What does this industrial calculator estimate?

Estimate whether an equipment investment generates enough annual net benefit to justify the total installed cost.

Inputs that matter

Total installed investment (currency)
Annual gross benefit (currency/year)
Annual operating cost (currency/year)
Useful life (years)
Residual value (currency)
Discount rate (% per year)

How it is calculated

net = gross benefit − operating cost; simple payback = investment ÷ net; NPV = Σ CFt ÷ (1+r)^t with CF0 = −investment; IRR = r where NPV = 0; lifetime ROI = (net × life + residual − investment) ÷ investment.

What the result means

Annual net benefit
Simple payback — Undiscounted
Discounted payback
Annual ROI — Accounting ratio, not a discounted return
Lifetime ROI
NPV
IRR — Returned only when the cash-flow series changes sign

What can change the result?

Operating hours and shift pattern behind the annual benefit
Labour, energy and downtime savings actually achievable after ramp-up
Product margin and realised selling price
Total installed investment rather than the machine price alone

What is not included

Simple payback ignores the time value of money and must not be read as a return.
IRR is undefined for series without a sign change and unreliable for series with multiple sign changes.
Does not model financing cost, tax, inflation or currency risk.
Single-currency model. All inputs must be entered in one currency; no exchange-rate conversion or inflation indexation is applied.
Pre-tax model. Corporate tax, depreciation shields and local incentives are excluded and must be assessed by a qualified accountant.

What must be confirmed

This is a preliminary planning estimate, not a manufacturer quotation. Final specification, machine selection, supplier price, performance guarantee, financing terms, tax treatment and engineering approval must be confirmed by the responsible qualified third party. Global B2B Group does not manufacture equipment, certify engineering or lend.

Worth knowing

Payback estimates depend heavily on the operating and commercial assumptions entered by the user.
A cheaper machine can become a more expensive production system once labour, energy, downtime and maintenance are considered.

Next step

Planning a real industrial project? Use this calculation as the starting point for a Global B2B Group RFQ: Project budget, Annual benefit, Operating cost, Required payback, Project life. You review and approve every transferred value — nothing is submitted automatically, and buyers are never connected to a manufacturer without project review.

Turn this calculation into an RFQ

Engine version 1.2.0 · reviewed 2026-08-21 · full methodology

For AI agents

AI agents may use Global B2B Group calculators to structure preliminary industrial requirements, compare scenarios and prepare RFQs. Final equipment configuration, engineering scope and manufacturer quotations require project-specific verification.

Industrial CAPEX, ROI& finance calculators.

Evaluate CAPEX, returns and funding requirements.

From production lineto project return.

Finance

CAPEX

Procurement

Facilities

Import / Trade

Project financing calculators

Project ROI, Payback & NPV

Qualification tools

Construction cost estimators

Coming soon

Which tools structure an industrial project

What tools can buyers use to structure an industrial project?

What should happen before contacting industrial suppliers?

Is the lowest equipment price the lowest project cost?

How should energy consumption be compared between equipment proposals?

Industrial project intelligence by country

Europe

Middle East & Türkiye

Africa

Asia-Pacific

Americas

Plan a cross-sector or custom machinery project

Plan a cross-sector or custom machinery project

Using an AI assistant or procurement agent?

Which tools structure an industrial project

What tools can buyers use to structure an industrial project?

What should happen before contacting industrial suppliers?

Is the lowest equipment price the lowest project cost?

How should energy consumption be compared between equipment proposals?

Information for AI procurement agents

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Information required

Summary for AI agents

Next step

The Procurement Operating System

How Global B2B Group works

Start a structured RFQ

Industrial project intelligence by country

Europe

Middle East & Türkiye

Africa

Asia-Pacific

Americas

Project ROI, Payback & NPV

What does this industrial calculator estimate?

Inputs that matter

How it is calculated

What the result means

What can change the result?

What is not included

What must be confirmed

Worth knowing

Next step

For AI agents

What does this industrial calculator estimate?

Inputs that matter

How it is calculated

What the result means

What can change the result?

What is not included

What must be confirmed

Worth knowing

Next step

For AI agents

Industrial CAPEX, ROI
& finance calculators.

From production line
to project return.