Heavy machinery moving requires a wide variety of expertise, including careful planning, coordination and safety management. If you need to relocate heavy machinery, or relocate an entire factory, you want a partner who has the experience and the equipment to handle this logistical challenge with precision.
Reasons for Heavy Machinery Moves
There are many reasons you may need to move heavy machinery. You may be receiving and moving new equipment for a plant or factory. Perhaps you are relocating an entire factory (nearby or across the country). In any case, you want a team with the skills to do the job right. CEI Crane & Rigging is a turnkey provider for machinery moving and plant relocation.
What Does Turnkey Mean in Machinery Moving?
When we talk about turnkey plant relocation or machinery moving, it means CEI Crane & Rigging can handle everything. From dismantling machinery, shipping and reassembly, to receiving new machinery, storing and setting in your plant, we do it all. We are essentially a one-stop shop for machinery moves and plant relocation, so you don’t have to coordinate multiple vendors. Our team can manage the entire machinery moving process.
Some of the services CEI Crane & Rigging provides for moving machinery include:
Dismantling and Millwright Services: CEI’s millwrights can disassemble heavy machinery with precision, following OEM specs. Our certified riggers then reassemble and level equipment in its new location.
Heavy-Haul Transportation: We handle oversized, overweight transport with our own fleet of heavy-haul trucks. We’re logistics experts. Having our own fleet of trucks through Starrett Service, along with 24/7 dispatch services, means we can get your move done quickly.
Warehousing for Machinery: With our large, security monitored heated indoor facility, plus outdoor storage space, CEI Crane & Rigging provides both short-term and long-term warehousing for equipment.
Crating and Shipping Heavy Equipment: For customers moving equipment internationally, CEI Crane & Rigging builds custom crates to ASTM standards, shrink-wraps and weatherproofs machinery, in addition to handling all shipping logistics.
Value-Added Work: CEI Crane & Rigging can provide welding, fabrication and asset recovery. We also can arrange for hydraulic and electrical hook ups after we have anchored the machinery to the floor.
At CEI Crane & Rigging, we are qualified machinery movers, experienced in handling every aspect of your machinery move. We work efficiently to reduce downtime. Through our full fleet of heavy haul transportation vehicles, we can make sure your machinery gets from one point to another, safely.
Prepare for Machinery Moving
When you’re planning to move heavy machinery, there are points to keep in mind and a process of steps to take.
- Gather the machinery specs, including weight, dimensions. If you need help with this step, CEI Crane & Rigging can provide an estimator to ensure you have made the right measurements.
- Plan the logistics of the move: the route the machinery will take, the type of truck needed to haul it and any preparations for overweight loads. At CEI, we have the expertise to handle these details, plan the entire route and provide the right truck for the job.
- Ensure that you have the right team and the correct rigging equipment required by choosing an expert provider for heavy hauling and machinery moving.
- Make sure you have handled all utility disconnections such as electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, exhaust, water or coolant lines. One of our estimators can assist with this, if needed.
- Prep the machinery by draining any fluids, removing fragile components and documenting the condition.
Minimize Your Factory Downtime
Downtime is expensive! When planning a machinery move, it is important to keep your plant productive. With the skilled machinery movers, certified riggers and expert millwrights at CEI Crane & Rigging, we help companies get back up and running as quickly as possible.
Enlist a Machinery Moving Team
Preparing for a machinery-moving project, especially when dealing with large, heavy, or delicate industrial equipment, is a multi-step process. Make sure you have a partner you can trust.
CEI Crane & Rigging services go beyond heavy equipment moving and rigging. We are full-service provider for your next commercial or industrial project. From end-to-end project management services for a single machine move or an entire factory, CEI can accommodate your project timeline and provide short-term and long-term warehouse storage.
Contact CEI for machinery moving expertise.