Heavy Machine Relocation and Factory Reconfiguration
At AIS Vanguard, we can help with all aspects of machinery relocation. With years of experience in this specialist area, we can support you with everything from relocating multiple smaller assets to shifting heavy machinery.
We are the UK’s leading machinery movers. This means we have the expertise, track record, resources, and equipment to complete your moving job safely, efficiently, and cost-effectively – every time.
We work with customers in the aerospace, automotive, food and drink, FMCG, manufacturing, heavy industry, pharmaceutical, power and energy, and warehousing sectors.
Our machinery relocation experience includes working in hazardous environments, factories with strict regulatory control for hygiene, certified ‘clean’ locations, and business-as-usual conditions.
Our services encompass:
Machinery removal | Factory relocation | Production line relocation
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Project Management and Risk Assessment
Providing complete, specialist machinery relocation planning and project management, a dedicated AIS Vanguard project manager is made available throughout the planning stage to liaise with your in-house team on all aspects of the move.
We also ensure a bespoke risk assessment and method statement for every machinery relocation element, whether working on a single heavy machinery relocation project or an entire factory relocation.
Informed and Varied Expertise
Our team of trained and certified machinery relocation specialists includes various industrial services disciplines. A fully trained engineering team, comprising SSSTS-trained foremen, riggers, HGV Class 1 & 2 drivers, crane operators, and electrical and mechanical engineering specialists, will support the project manager.
Our machinery relocation teams also include fully certified slinger signallers, banksmen and appointed persons to provide competent supervision when delivering factory reconfiguration projects.
Lifting Equipment for All of Your Machinery Relocation Needs
Whether you need to install or remove a single machine or relocate or decommission an entire facility, we have the machinery-moving expertise and resources to help.
In House Fleet of Lifting & Moving Equipment
The AIS Vanguard fleet of wholly-owned lifting and moving equipment includes:
- Pick & Carry Cranes 2t – 21te
- Hydraulic Gantry Systems 450t
- Forklifts 2t-9t
- Versa lifts 11t – 27t
- Array of Lifting Equipment
Because our equipment is wholly owned, we can deploy assets to wherever they’re needed, fast.
Expertly Coordinated Transportation
Our logistics service is an integral part of our machinery relocation capabilities, enabling us to provide a complete, end-to-end solution for any heavy machinery relocation or factory relocation.
We have our own fleet of Euro6-compliant commercial vehicles and can provide a complete transportation and shipping service as part of your machinery relocation project, including:
- Manoeuvring machinery to a new location within the same site.
- Packing of machinery and equipment ready for machinery relocation projects.
- Loading machinery and equipment to transport, including provision of specialist lifting equipment for heavy machinery relocation projects.
- Transportation of equipment and machinery.
- Arranging any support vehicles or heavy/wide load permits required for heavy machinery relocation.
- International machinery relocation with all correct paperwork in all relevant languages for transit.
- Making shipping arrangements.
- Arranging for storage until the new location is ready for your machinery or equipment.
- Offloading your machinery or equipment when it reaches its destination.
- Machinery installation at the new location to complete your factory reconfiguration or plant relocation project.
Disconnecting, Decommissioning and Dismantling Services
Our mechanical and electrical engineering teams can divert, modify and isolate mechanical and electrical services for you, ready for your machinery relocation project. Working closely with your engineers, we can prepare your assets for machinery relocation to make the process as smooth, efficient and cost-effective as possible. It also ensures that any mission-critical machines remaining operational during the factory reconfiguration or plant relocation programme are unaffected.
Dismantling machines helps make the machinery relocation project safer and simplifies transportation by avoiding the need for heavy or wide-load support vehicles and permits. This can reduce the cost of your machinery relocation project.
Once your assets arrive at their new location, we can reverse the machinery dismantling process, carrying out machine assembly as part of our turnkey machinery relocation service.
We can also support your engineers or your OEM’s team with decommissioning.
Commitment to Health and Safety
Your relocation project partner must prioritise health and safety at every stage. At AIS Vanguard, we operate to the highest levels of health and safety and operate a zero-accident culture.
We provide CDM services to enable safe and cost-effective egress of assets from your facility for machinery relocation.
International Capabilities
We’re proud to support international machinery relocation and factory relocation projects, providing all the correct paperwork in relevant languages for transit by working in partnership with our sister company, AIS EURELO.
At AIS Vanguard, we know different industries have different machinery relocation needs. Our skilled team of machinery relocation experts is committed to meeting your factory reconfiguration, plant relocation and heavy machinery relocation needs – however large or small the project, and whatever sector you operate in.
To find out why we’re the perfect partner for your next machinery relocation project.
Industrial Relocation Services:
Small Projects
Machinery Removals
Machinery Installation
Factory Relocation
Complex Machinery Lifting
Lift & Shift
Mechanical & Electrical
Logistics
Asset Realisation
Asset Rationalisation
Crane Installation
Hydraulic Systems
Jacking & Skating
Robot Installation
Scrap Machinery Removal
Frequently Asked Questions
We maintain a wholly-owned fleet of specialist lifting and moving equipment to ensure rapid deployment and safety. This includes Pick & Carry cranes (2t – 21t), hydraulic gantry systems (up to 450t), Versa-Lifts (11t – 27t), and a varied range of forklifts. Because we own our assets, we provide a reliable, cost-effective service for moving everything from single machines to entire production lines.
Yes. In partnership with our sister company, AIS EURELO, we provide a complete end-to-end international relocation service. This encompasses the mechanical and electrical decommissioning of assets, export packing, secure transportation, and the management of all transit paperwork in the relevant languages. We also handle offloading and precision re-installation at your new global destination.
We specialise in performing complex reconfigurations and relocations without halting your production. Our mechanical and electrical teams can isolate, divert, and modify services to ensure mission-critical machines remain operational throughout the move. We assign a dedicated project manager to liaise with your in-house team, ensuring the relocation is phased to match your operational priorities and minimise downtime.