Factory Relocation Norwich

Factory relocation in Norwich and across Norfolk

Factory moves in Norwich come from the engineering and component makers on Broadland Business Park and the airport estates, from processing and packing sites across Norfolk, and from research buildings south of the city. One contact runs the move: survey and asset register, disconnection and decommissioning with your engineers and the machine manufacturers, strip-out, lifting, packing, crating and transport, then offloading, reinstallation, levelling, setting to line and recommissioning, whether the new address is across the city or in Europe.

We relocate factories in Norwich, Thorpe St Andrew, Hellesdon, Costessey and Sprowston, and out to Wymondham, Hethersett, Dereham, Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft. Send a plant list and photographs, and a smaller move can be priced the same working day.

What a factory relocation covers

A relocation takes in a whole works or one department of it: machine tools, presses, injection moulding machines, packing lines, process tanks and skids, and racking. Machines you are leaving behind go for sale or disposal on the same visits, and if the new building runs late your equipment waits in storage.

Factory moves we plan in Norwich

Type of move	What sets the timetable	What we handle
Moving to a bigger or newer unit	When bases, power and air are signed off	Both buildings surveyed, machines placed to the new floor plan
Bringing two sites onto one	How soon the site you keep can clear space	One asset register, arrivals ordered around the plant already there
A closure, with working plant going to a sister site in the UK or abroad	When the receiving plant can install	Decommissioning, export cases and clearance of what stays
A single line or department moving	The shutdown you can give it	The line broken down, labelled and rebuilt in running order
A lease end forcing a move	The day the keys go back	Storage while the new building catches up, then an empty unit

Our factory relocation service page sets out each stage.

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Please leave a few details and a member of our factory relocation team will be in touch to discuss your requirements in more detail.

Where we work in and around Norwich

Norwich relocations come from a spread of industries.

Engineering on Broadland Business Park and the airport estates

Component and machinery makers on the city’s eastern and northern edges take machine tools, press brakes and racking into a bigger unit, each one levelled and set to line at the far end. See our industrial sector page.

Vehicle and component manufacturing in Norfolk

Makers of vehicle parts and assemblies across the county move assembly benches, test rigs, presses and finishing plant, often a cell at a time so the shop keeps running. See our automotive sector page.

Food, milling and vegetable processing

Norfolk farms on a large scale, and its processing and packing sites relocate grading lines, cold store plant and stainless tanks, wrapped for the journey and signed off to your hygiene standard. See our food and beverages page.

Research and laboratory buildings south of the city

Laboratory and test equipment on the research park moves between premises with the plant that serves it, set down on marked positions ready to requalify. See our healthcare and pharma and education pages.

Energy yards at Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft

Oil and gas businesses and the offshore wind supply chain at both harbours move workshop machinery and handling equipment when a yard changes hands, with loading planned around the work still running. See our power and renewables and maritime pages.

Access and planning for a factory move in Norwich

Points we check on most Norwich relocations:

Load after load along one route. Norfolk has no motorway, so trailers reach the county on the A11 or the A47, single carriageway in places. The approach, the turn-in at each site and the travelling hours are settled first.
The receiving building on the day. Machine bases, floor, power, air and a clear way in carry ready-by dates, checked at the new site as the move nears.
How each machine leaves. Door widths, headroom, the yard and whether a roof panel can come off decide the method for each item, and that goes on the asset register.
Floors at both addresses. Skates and jacks put a machine’s weight on a few small points, so the slab is checked at both ends. Yards on the low ground along the Wensum take mats under the outriggers.
Street loading and notifications. Where loading takes part of a road or pavement, we arrange traffic management and closure with Norfolk County Council, or Suffolk County Council at Lowestoft. Abnormal loads are notified where needed.

Keeping production going during the move

Phasing keeps orders going out. The lines you can spare travel first and are producing at the new address before the rest follows. Lifts heavy enough to stop the floor go into a weekend or shutdown.

Few moves line up the day you hand back one building with the day the next is ready. Storage holds your equipment in between and releases it as the new floor is ready, and machines you are not taking go for sale or disposal on the same visits. Processing sites out in the county time a move for the quieter weeks between harvest runs.

Postcodes and areas we cover

We cover every NR postcode across the county:

Norwich: city centre, Thorpe St Andrew, Hellesdon, Costessey, Sprowston, Eaton and the research park
South and west: Wymondham, Hethersett, Hethel, Attleborough, Dereham and Watton
Coast and east: Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft, Caister, Aylsham, North Walsham and Cromer
Wider area: King’s Lynn, Thetford, Diss, Bury St Edmunds and Ipswich

We relocate factories right across the UK and into Europe.

Why Norwich firms choose Synergy Lifting for factory relocation

Machine shops and processing halls alike. The crews who empty an engineering unit on Broadland Business Park also lift packing lines out of Norfolk food sites.
Your machine builders written into the programme. Where a manufacturer attends a strip-down or signs off a rebuild, the visit is booked in before the move starts.
One agreement covering every trade on site. Cranes, rigging crew, haulage and the fitters who set each machine to line are all ours, and one person answers for 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 Norwich relocation draws on our other services:

How a factory relocation works

Tell us both addresses, a rough machine count and the date production has to restart.
We survey both sites and build the asset register. Smaller moves are priced the same day from a desktop survey.
Your quote comes with a programme in move order, backed by method statements, risk assessments and lift plans.
Our crew extracts and packs the machinery and runs it over in that order.
Each machine goes into position, is levelled, set to line and handed over for recommissioning.

Common questions

Our new unit is out in the county. Does the journey change the plan?

It shapes the timings more than the method. With no motorway into Norfolk, vehicles run in on the A11 or the A47 and then onto county roads, so we drive the last stretch before quoting and size the loads to the turnings.

Our laboratory plant has to be requalified at the new building. Where does that sit in the programme?

We hand the rooms over one at a time, and your validation people and the equipment makers are booked against those dates. Each instrument is levelled and signed off before the next room is filled, so requalification starts while the rest of the move carries on.

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 Norwich

Phone: 01603 385 877
Email: norwich@synergy-lifting.co.uk

Send us both addresses, a rough machine count and the restart date, and we will set out how the move would run.

We also provide factory relocation in Ipswich, Cambridge, Peterborough and Grimsby. See all the factory relocation locations.