For over four decades, AIS Vanguard has been recognised as a leading industrial engineering business that delivers lifting and transportation expertise to the manufacturing sectors.
Working across the UK and with a highly specialist team, we work closely with clients, supporting them with changing operational and commercial priorities by lifting and moving valuable assets. For those requiring support in the UK, we call on our branch network to deliver machinery installation and equipment, removal, mechanical and electrical, technical and heavy lifting, CDM and project management services. But our reach also extends beyond the UK – as we’re part of a family-owned independent company, which means we can offer international lifting and transportation expertise.
Thanks to the agility of AIS EURELO, a joint venture between AIS Vanguard and EURELO Tech, we can deliver large-scale, multi-disciplined projects in any European location, across European borders, and anywhere in the world. The AIS EURELO team offers factory relocation, asset realisation and rationalisation, machinery removal and installations, technical lifting, and logistics services.
Firmly focused on helping clients minimise operational downtime, reduce costs and relocate business-critical equipment efficiently and safely, AIS Vanguard and AIS EURELO collaborate regularly to deliver successful project outcomes and operational peace of mind.
Here are the seven significant benefits of the AIS Vanguard and AIS EURELO collaboration:
1.Single Point of Contact
AIS Vanguard clients can access European expertise via the same single point of contact. At the outset, all projects are assigned a highly skilled and accomplished project manager who takes full project responsibility and provides updates on even the most multifaceted and complex lifting and transportation projects. This ensures ease of communication and full project accountability at every stage.
2.European Reach
AIS EURELO’s international network of branches ensures capability and resources are always available, whatever our clients’ moving or lifting requirements. The European branch network operates from four strategic locations in Germany, Poland, the UK and the Czech Republic – all of which have strong industrial heritage, transport links and local knowledge – and handles projects in 18 European countries. With AIS EURELO, AIS Vanguard customers have Europe in easy reach.
3.Trusted Partner
AIS EURELO is an extension of the AIS Vanguard team and gives UK-based clients easy access to the best specialist lifters and movers in Europe. With a wealth of knowledge and vast lifting and moving expertise, the AIS Vanguard and AIS EURELO teams collaborate to ensure even the most time-critical, commercially sensitive, and operationally challenging projects are delivered seamlessly and safely.
4.Specialist Plant & Equipment
Across AIS Vanguard and AIS EURELO, we have access to a specialist fleet of wholly-owned plant and heavy-lifting equipment. Comprising more than 60 heavy-lifting assets such as cranes, hydraulic jacking systems, forklift trucks, and vehicles, we always have the right tool for the job and can deploy the fleet as project needs dictate.
5.Shared Commitment to Health and Safety
Safety is a cornerstone of both AIS Vanguard and AIS EURELO. We have an impeccable safety record and hold trusted safety accreditations, so clients can be sure of best-practice project planning and delivery, with all work carried out to the highest health and safety standards in the UK and Europe. All projects benefit from fully safety-trained personnel, rigorous planning with risk assessments and methods statements, adherence to AIS group company policies, and all location regulations and legislation. Both businesses hold ISO certifications, including 9001:201, 14001:20 and 45001:2018.
6.Highly Experienced Team
AIS Vanguard’s 150-strong in-house team of engineers, project managers, and heavy equipment movers is trained to the highest standards. When projects call on AIS EURELO, too, the team’s expertise is extended further. It adds 200 personnel to the roster, including project managers, health and safety advisors, fitters, riggers, HGV/HIAB drivers, warehouse and forklift truck operatives, and welders.
Our team’s sizeable nature and vast expertise make it easy to ‘scale up’ and provide access to additional on-the-ground people power and machinery moving and lifting expertise as required. We also work with an international network of proven and vetted subcontractor partners.
7.Vast Sector Expertise
AIS EURELO’s sector expertise mirrors that of AIS Vanguard, meaning that clients in the aerospace, food and beverage, automotive, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, packing, warehousing, defence, energy and heavy industry sectors can be sure of market-specific expertise and a proven track record.
By combining the resources and experience of AIS Vanguard and AIS EURELO, we can provide clients with safe, reliable and cost-effective industrial equipment movement expertise anywhere in the world.
Contact AIS Vanguard to see how our European partners could support your next industrial machinery move or installation project.