Skilled Industrial Movers

Warehouse & Industrial Plant Relocation

Relocating a warehouse or industrial plant involves moving raw and finished goods, inventory, storage racking, heavy machinery, handling equipment and critical technology assets. These elements are extremely important to keeping your business operational. At Suddath®, you get experienced industrial movers and warehouse and industrial equipment relocation services that minimize the impact of an industrial move on your business.

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Industrial Plant Relocation Services

We offer a variety of warehouse and industrial relocation services with teams you can trust that have experience in your industry. Our services include:

  • Warehouse layout planning
  • Warehouse relocation planning and oversight
  • Specialized rigging
  • Disassembly and reassembly of racking systems
  • Parts packing and material preparations
  • Specialized transportation
  • Warehouse management system administration
  • Vendor management

Why Choose Suddath

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Experts Who Understand Your Business

Recognizing that you have internal experts and resources that only need help in certain areas, we work alongside your industrial plant management, warehousing and materials management teams to understand current business operations and assess in-house capabilities to identify where outside resources are needed.

Strategic Planning to Minimize Downtime

The biggest challenges companies face during an industrial plant relocation is maintaining access to inventory and minimizing manufacturing downtime. As industrial movers, we operate as an extension of your company to ensure strict controls around the movement of inventory and precise scheduling of equipment and machinery moves.

The art of achieving an industrial relocation deadline while preserving current business operations is intelligent phasing, detailed planning and validated rehearsal. We test our plans upfront in controlled circumstances to validate timing assumptions and to uncover unforeseen dependencies.

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Operating as an Extension of Your Team

We recognize that due to the complex nature of industrial plant relocations our role is to operate as a member of a larger team. Collaboration, communication and teamwork between the various internal departments, OEMs, outside electricians, mechanics, riggers, plumbers and engineers is crucial.

Specialized Skills to Move Equipment

Industrial moves are very different than office moves. From moving rotary shelves to five-ton presses, industrial environments require specialized skills like rigging, disassembly and reassembly of industrial racking, packing of small parts areas, inventory management and significant physical resources like heavy duty cranes, lifts, rolling carts and flatbeds, and we have the resources to handle these needs.

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Recent Projects

Warehouse and Industrial Move Checklist

Get your step-by-step guide to moving a warehouse or industrial plant. This interactive checklist gives you the easy button to ensure you’re properly managing every aspect of a warehouse move, helping reduce downtime to your business.

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Machinery Moves for NOAA

Suddath’s award-winning technology provided instant updates on high-profile heavy equipment move for The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

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Warehouse and Industrial Moving FAQs

How to plan warehouse or industrial moves

If you’re planning to relocate a warehouse or industrial plant, you may be searching for the best solution that optimizes the operations of your business. To keep up with evolving industry trends and retail markets, it’s important to create a space design that is easily adaptable to changes in your business. As industrial move experts with over 100 years of knowledge and experience, we’re sharing a few effective practices you should consider when planning a commercial move to optimize your warehouse space. Read our blog to learn more.

How do I move from one warehouse to another?

Moving from one warehouse to another takes precise planning. These types of relocations typically involve moving raw and finished goods, inventory, storage racking, heavy machinery, handling equipment and critical technology assets. Suddath created a step-by-step guide for a warehouse move or industrial plant relocation to make this process easier. Download our free warehouse relocation checklist.

Where can I find heavy equipment movers?

Heavy equipment moves require specialized tools and training to properly relocate expensive and sometimes irreplaceable equipment. You don’t want to rely on standard office movers to handle this job. Instead, work with an company like Suddath, who has extensive experience in industrial environments and has specialized skills like rigging, disassembly and reassembly of industrial racking, packing of small parts areas, inventory management and significant physical resources like heavy duty cranes, lifts, rolling carts and flatbeds. We’ve been relocating heavy equipment for years with hundreds of success stories under our belt. See how we successfully relocated machinery for NOAA.

How to streamline a warehouse relocation

One of the greatest challenges during industrial moving is maintaining access to inventory and minimizing manufacturing downtime. As experienced industrial movers, Suddath can ensure strict controls around the movement of inventory and precise scheduling of equipment and machinery moves to limit the impact an industrial move has on your bottom line. By implementing intelligent phasing, detailed planning and validated rehearsal, we streamline your move, making sure you’re back to business as quickly as possible.

Talk to our team to get started

Our experts can handle your warehouse and industrial relocation needs. Contact us today to learn more.