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Factory relocation in Northampton and across Northamptonshire
Northampton sits at the centre of the country’s distribution industry, and factory moves here come from the warehousing operators on Brackmills and Swan Valley, food producers across the county, precision engineering shops and automotive component makers. One point of contact runs the job: survey and asset register, disconnection and decommissioning with your engineers and the equipment manufacturers, strip-out and dismantling, lifting, packing, crating and transport, then offloading, reinstallation, levelling, setting to line and recommissioning.
We cover Northampton, Brackmills, Swan Valley, Moulton Park and Duston, out to Towcester, Daventry, Wellingborough, Rushden and Kettering. Send an outline and a smaller job is priced the same working day from a desktop survey.
What a factory relocation covers
A relocation can take in a whole factory or one department, run as a turnkey job from first survey to handover. The plant ranges from CNC machine tools and presses to conveyors, compressors, process tanks and racking. Machines you are leaving behind go for sale or disposal on the same visits, and where the new building is not ready, equipment waits in our storage.
Factory moves we plan in Northampton
| Type of move | What sets the timetable | What we handle |
|---|---|---|
| Moving to a bigger or newer unit | Sign-off of the floor and services in the new unit | Surveys at both ends, extraction, transport and setting each machine down |
| A closure, with working plant going to a sister site | The installation slot at the far end | Plant made safe, export cases, and the unit emptied behind you |
| Rearranging a factory within the same building or site | Your order book, since the factory keeps running | Machines shifted in stages and set to line on fresh fixings |
| A single line or department moving | The shutdown your production planner allows | Strip-out, transport and a rebuild ready for your engineers |
| A lease end forcing a move | The notice given on the old unit | A clear unit by that date, with storage covering any gap |
Our factory relocation service page sets out each stage.
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Where we work in and around Northampton
Relocations around Northampton come from these industries and estates.
Warehousing at Brackmills and Swan Valley
When an operator takes a larger shed, conveyors, sortation runs, racking and baling plant travel too, numbered as they come down for the new layout. See our industrial sector page.
Automotive component makers
Suppliers around the county move presses, moulding machines and tooling, each press returning to its foundation at the maker’s tolerance. See our automotive sector page.
Food and drink manufacturing
Filling lines, tanks and pipework leave county food halls cleaned down and wrapped, then go back in the order your hygiene team needs. See our food and beverages page.
Machine shops on Moulton Park
Firms here work from units with barely enough room outside to turn a lorry, so machine tools leave through whatever door will pass them, the route settled before a date is fixed.
New units along the M1
Firms leaving older buildings land on the parks either side of junctions 15 and 16, plant arriving while other trades finish and the sequence agreed with the principal contractor. See our construction sector page.
College workshops and hospital estates
Workshops and laboratory equipment move when a department changes building, with dates set by term times. See our education sector and healthcare and pharma pages.
Access and planning for a factory move in Northampton
Points we check on most Northampton relocations:
- Which way the loads go out. With the M1 at junctions 15 and 16 and the A45 and A43 feeding them, each oversized item has its route fixed before a lorry is booked, with low bridges and weight limits checked at survey.
- What has to be finished at the new site. Floor, machine bases, power, air and a clear way in each carry a date, checked against the receiving building as the move nears.
- Every machine’s exit route. Door widths, headroom, yard space and whether a roof panel can come off decide how each item leaves, and that sits on the asset register.
- What the slabs will take. A machine on skates puts its weight through a few small contacts, so the floor is proved along the route at both addresses, and yard surfaces on the newer parks are checked before a crane stands on them.
- Loading from the road. Where a load-out needs part of a road or pavement, we arrange the traffic management and road closure with West Northamptonshire Council, and with North Northamptonshire Council once the move crosses into Kettering, Wellingborough or Rushden. Abnormal loads are notified where needed.
Keeping production going during the move
Output carries on through much of a relocation. The lines you can spare cross first and are turning out work at the new site before the rest follows, which suits a firm moving between two Northampton units. Heavier load-outs go into a weekend or your shutdown.
Storage bridges the gap between the day you hand the old unit back and the day the new building is ready, with equipment coming out once the bases have cured. Racking and machines you are not taking go for sale or disposal on the same visits, leaving the old unit clear.
Postcodes and areas we cover
We cover every NN postcode and the Northamptonshire districts around it:
- Northampton: town centre, Abington, Kingsthorpe, Hardingstone, Far Cotton, Duston and Dallington
- Employment areas: Brackmills, Swan Valley and Moulton Park
- Around the town: Bugbrooke, Weedon, Towcester and Daventry
- North of the county: Wellingborough, Rushden, Higham Ferrers, Kettering, Burton Latimer, Desborough, Thrapston and Corby
- Wider area: Milton Keynes, Bedford, Rugby, Market Harborough and Oundle
We relocate factories right across the UK and into Europe.
Why Northampton firms choose Synergy Lifting for factory relocation
- The fittings travel with the plant. Racking, mezzanine steel, benching and stores come down with the machines and go back up to the new floor plan under the same numbering.
- Machines put back to the maker’s figures. Levelling and setting to line follow the manufacturer’s tolerance, so recommissioning starts on a machine sitting right.
- One order, one programme. Craneage, rigging, haulage and reinstallation are all ours, and one person carries the job from survey to handover.
- Qualified and accredited. CPCS and NPORS operators, lifts planned to BS 7121, equipment inspected under LOLER and PUWER, SSIP approved, Constructionline Gold Member, certified to ISO 9001 and ISO 14001, and members of the Construction Plant-hire Association.
More than factory relocation
A Northampton relocation can call on these as well:
How a factory relocation works
- Send the address you are leaving, the one you are taking on, a rough number of machines and your restart date.
- Both sites are walked and the asset register drawn up, and a smaller move can be priced from a desktop survey within the day.
- Your quote arrives with a programme written in move order, backed by method statements, risk assessments and lift plans.
- Our crews disconnect, extract, pack and load each machine in its planned slot.
- Every item is offloaded, positioned, levelled and set to line, then handed over for recommissioning.
Common questions
Our plant sits in three units around the town. Can it go into one?
Yes. Each unit is surveyed and everything goes onto one asset register, then the order of arrival comes from your new layout. Units are cleared one at a time, which suits leases ending on different dates.
One machine is too tall for the road we use. How does it leave Northampton?
The route is fixed before the lorry is booked. Low bridges and weight limits towards junction 15 or 16 of the M1, and along the A45 and A43, are checked, and a machine that can be split travels in sections.
Can we keep producing while we move?
In most cases, yes, for part of the plant. We move the lines you can spare first and get them running at the new site, then bring the rest across. It means more visits, and it keeps output going while the move is under way. We tell you at survey which parts can overlap.
How are disconnection and recommissioning handled?
We agree who does what at survey and write it into the programme. It is a mix of our crew, your maintenance team and the equipment manufacturers, and everyone knows their part before the first machine moves. Recommissioning is done with your engineers or the manufacturer.
Get a quote for factory relocation in Northampton
- Phone: 01604 300 218
- Email: northampton@synergy-lifting.co.uk
Send us both addresses, a rough machine count and the date production has to restart, and we will come back with a quote and an outline sequence.
We also provide factory relocation in Milton Keynes, Coventry, Leicester and Luton. See all the factory relocation locations.