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Factory relocation in Peterborough and across Cambridgeshire
Factory moves around Peterborough come from engineering and fabrication firms at Fengate, food and produce processors across the Fens, distribution operations along the A1 and A47, and the energy and waste sites around the city. 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 the machinery out, packing, crating and transport, then offloading, reinstallation, levelling, setting to line and recommissioning, in the city or in mainland Europe.
Our work runs from Werrington and the city centre through Orton, Hampton, Fengate and Whittlesey, and out to Stamford, Oundle, March, Wisbech, Spalding and Huntingdon. A desktop survey prices a smaller move within the working day.
What a factory relocation covers
A relocation takes in a complete works or a single department, with plant from CNC machine tools and presses to packing lines, compressors, process tanks and skids and racking. Plant that is not making the journey is cleared for sale or disposal alongside the move, and equipment waits in our storage when the new building runs behind.
Factory moves we plan in Peterborough
| Type of move | What sets the timetable | What we handle |
|---|---|---|
| Moving to a bigger or newer unit | Sign-off of bases and supplies in the new unit | Both buildings surveyed, then extraction and reinstallation to the new layout, in the city or at a Fen town |
| Bringing two sites onto one | How soon the site you keep can free up floor | One asset register, with incoming plant fitted around the machines already running |
| A closure, with working plant going to a sister site at home or abroad | The install date at the receiving plant | Decommissioning, export crating and clearance of whatever stays behind |
| A single line or department moving | The shutdown the line can be given | The line numbered, stripped out, carried over and rebuilt with its conveyors |
| A lease end forcing a move | The day the unit goes back to the landlord | An empty unit by that date, with storage covering any wait |
Our factory relocation service page covers how these moves are run.
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Where we work in and around Peterborough
Relocation work here comes from these industries and areas.
Engineering and fabrication at Fengate
Machine shops and fabrication firms fill Fengate and the estates near it. When one outgrows its unit, machine tools, presses and racking go too, each set on a new base and lined up. See our plastics and metals page.
Produce packing across the Fens
The Fens around the city are heavily farmed. Packing sites there relocate graders, washers, tanks and cold store plant, wrapped for the road and rebuilt in line order. See our food and beverages page.
Warehousing on the trunk road parks
Sheds along the A1 and the A47 change hands and change use. Conveyor and sortation runs, racking and mezzanine steel come out in sections and go back in the new shed’s order. See our industrial sector page.
Power and waste processing
Generation and waste sites move plant when a process is replaced, bringing generators, transformers, pumps and skid units into a programme built around a planned outage. See our power and renewables and waste and recycling pages.
Rail-side workshops
Workshops serving the East Coast Main Line relocate lathes, test rigs and handling equipment. A load coming out within reach of the running lines takes its date from the possession granted. See our rail page.
Access and planning for a factory move in Peterborough
Points we check on most Peterborough relocations:
- What the ground will carry. Peat and made ground run under a good deal of the land here, and a hardstanding that looks sound takes far less than its appearance suggests. Standings are proved and matted at both addresses, with drainage ditches given a wide berth.
- What has to be finished at the far end. Slab, bases, power, air and a clear way in each get a date in the programme, checked before plant leaves.
- Getting each item through the door. Shutter widths, headroom under beams, yard space and whether a roof panel can lift off decide the extraction method, item by item on the register.
- Point loads from jacks and skates. Skates put a machine’s weight through a few small contacts, so the floor is checked along the route at both ends and spread with plates where needed.
- Getting permission to load. Where loading needs part of a road or pavement, traffic management and closure are arranged with Peterborough City Council, or with Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire or Northamptonshire County Council once the move crosses the boundary. Abnormal loads are notified where needed.
Keeping production going during the move
Work carries on through a relocation when the move is phased. The lines you can spare go first and are producing at the new address before the rest follows, and lifts that would halt a line go into a weekend or a shutdown. A Fen packing site keeps boxing in one hall while the other is stripped out.
Leaving one building and taking the next seldom fall on the same date. Storage bridges the two, with equipment delivered once the bases have cured. Anything you are leaving behind goes for sale or disposal on the same visits.
Postcodes and areas we cover
We cover every PE postcode and the districts around the city:
- Peterborough: city centre, Werrington, Orton, Hampton, Fengate and Whittlesey
- The Fens: Spalding, Wisbech, March, Chatteris and Ramsey
- South and west: Stamford, Oundle, Bourne, Huntingdon, St Neots and St Ives
- Wider area: Cambridge, Boston, Grantham, King’s Lynn, Kettering and Corby
We relocate factories right across the UK and into Europe.
Why Peterborough firms choose Synergy Lifting for factory relocation
- A move built round your order book. Extraction is sequenced against what you have promised customers, so the busiest lines go when they can be spared.
- The Fen towns as well as the city. A works leaving Fengate for a larger building at March, Wisbech or Spalding has both ends on one programme.
- Lifting and fitting on one contract. The crane, the rigging crew, the lorries and the fitters who set each machine to line are all ours, so one person owns the programme.
- 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 Peterborough relocation can draw on these as well:
How a factory relocation works
- We start with the two addresses, a rough machine count and the date production has to be back on.
- We walk both buildings and build the asset register, or price a smaller move from a desktop survey that day.
- The quote arrives with a programme in the order the move runs, plus method statements, risk assessments and lift plans.
- Our crew extracts each machine, packs or crates it and takes it by road in its planned slot.
- At the far end every item is reinstalled, levelled, set to line and handed over for recommissioning.
Common questions
Our new unit is down a lane outside Wisbech. Does that matter?
It shapes the load sizes and the order of work. We drive the final approach and measure it, weak bridges included, before the programme is fixed.
We pack produce and our busy season is the summer. Can the move wait?
Yes, and the programme is built around it. The survey happens early and heavy extraction sits in the weeks when the halls are quiet, with anything out early held in storage.
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 Peterborough
- Phone: 01733 592 477
- Email: peterborough@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 the order we would work in.
We also provide factory relocation in Cambridge, Northampton, Leicester and Milton Keynes. See all the factory relocation locations.