Factory Relocation Nottingham

Factory relocation in Nottingham and across Nottinghamshire

Factory moves in Nottingham come mainly from the engineering and food businesses on the estates at Colwick, Blenheim and Lenton, and from the life science firms around Beeston. We run the whole move from one point of contact, taking in the survey and asset register, disconnection, strip-out and dismantling, lifting the machinery out, packing, crating and transport, then offloading, reinstallation, levelling, setting to line and recommissioning with your engineers or the manufacturer, whether the new site is across the city or elsewhere in Europe.

We cover Nottingham, Beeston, Colwick, Bulwell, West Bridgford and Hucknall, and out to Mansfield, Newark-on-Trent and Long Eaton. Smaller moves can be priced the same working day from a desktop survey.

What a factory relocation covers

A relocation can be a whole factory or one part of it. Machines you are not keeping can be taken away for sale or disposal on the same visit. If the new building is not ready when you leave, equipment goes into storage. Some moves are finished in a day, while larger ones run in phases over months.

Factory moves we plan in Nottingham

Type of move	What sets the timetable	What we handle
Moving to a bigger or newer unit	The date the new unit is fitted out	Survey of both units, extraction and reinstallation to the new layout
Bringing two sites onto one	Which site closes first	Fitting the incoming plant around what is already there
A closure, with working plant going to a sister site in the UK or abroad	The installation window at the receiving plant	Decommissioning, export crating, and clearing what is not going
Rearranging a factory within the same building or site	Your production plan, as the factory keeps running	Moving machines in stages, each one levelled and set to line
A single line or department moving	A weekend or a planned shutdown	Dismantling, labelling and rebuilding the line in its new position
A lease end forcing a move	The date the keys go back	Storing anything the new site cannot take yet and leaving the old unit empty

Our factory relocation service page has more on how we run these moves.

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Where we work in and around Nottingham

Relocations around Nottingham come from these sectors.

Engineering works at Colwick and Blenheim

Machine shops on the Colwick estates and at Blenheim in Bulwell take CNC machine tools, presses and racking with them when they outgrow a unit. At the new unit each machine is levelled and set to line before your engineers reconnect it. See our industrial sector page.

Food and drink manufacturing

Food producers on the city’s estates relocate packing lines, conveyors and process tanks. Stainless equipment is wrapped for the journey and rebuilt to your auditors’ hygiene standard. See our food and beverages page.

Pharmaceutical and life science firms around Beeston

Process skids and test equipment from the Beeston area go to new premises or a sister site. Each item is set down ready to be requalified at the other end. See our healthcare and pharma page.

Lenton and the units near the centre

Lenton sits close to the centre, and firms there that need more floor space look further out. Older buildings can have tight doors and yards, so the way out of each machine is planned before a date is fixed.

University and college departments

Nottingham’s two universities and its colleges relocate workshops, test rigs and laboratory equipment between buildings, with the moves timed for the weeks between terms. See our education sector page.

Access and planning for a factory move in Nottingham

Points we check on most Nottingham relocations:

Tram lines near the loading point. The network reaches Hucknall, Clifton and Toton as well as the centre. If a crane has to load near the overhead line, the safe distance or an isolation is settled with the tram operator early.
The new building on the day. Machine bases, power, air and a clear way in have to be ready on the programme dates, and we check the receiving site against them as the move approaches.
Getting each machine out. Door widths, headroom, the yard and whether a roof panel can come off decide how each machine leaves, and we record this on the asset register.
Floors at both addresses. Jacks and skates load small points. Low ground along the Trent at Colwick can be made or soft, so crane standings in the yard are checked as well as the slabs inside.
Roads and notifications. If loading needs part of a road or pavement, we arrange the closure with Nottingham City Council or Nottinghamshire County Council. Abnormal loads are notified where needed, routed around the Trent crossings.

Keeping production going during the move

A phased relocation moves the lines you can spare first, and they are running at the new site before the rest follows, so orders keep going out. Heavy lifts can be booked into weekends or a planned shutdown.

Leaving the old unit and moving into the new one rarely fall on the same day. Our storage holds equipment until the new building is ready. Anything you are not taking can be cleared on the same visit for sale or disposal. For a firm moving from Lenton to a larger unit, both addresses sit in one programme.

Postcodes and areas we cover

We cover every NG postcode and the Nottinghamshire districts around it:

Nottingham: city centre, Lenton, Basford, Bulwell, Bilborough, Sherwood, Sneinton and the Lace Market
Around the city: Colwick, Beeston, Arnold, West Bridgford, Wilford, Clifton, Hucknall and Kimberley
The county: Mansfield, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Eastwood, Cotgrave, Bingham, Radcliffe on Trent, Southwell and Newark-on-Trent
Wider area: Long Eaton, Loughborough, Grantham, Worksop and Retford

We relocate factories right across the UK and into Europe.

Why Nottingham firms choose Synergy Lifting for factory relocation

Both ends checked by one team. Whoever walks your unit in Bulwell or Lenton checks the new one too, so every machine has a route out and a place waiting.
Storage and disposal included. Plant waiting for the new building and machines you are selling stay with us, so no second contractor is needed.
Your contract covers the lot. Crane, rigging crew, transport and reinstallation sit under one agreement, with one person answering 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 Nottingham relocation can draw on other services:

How a factory relocation works

Give us both addresses, a rough machine count and the restart date.
We walk both sites and draw up the asset register, or for a smaller move work from a desktop survey and price it the same day.
Your quote comes with a programme set out in move order, plus method statements, risk assessments and lift plans.
Our crew extracts, packs and transports the equipment in the agreed order.
Each machine is reinstalled, levelled, set to line and handed over for recommissioning.

Common questions

Our new unit is close to a tram line. Does that affect the move?

It can, if a crane has to work near the overhead lines. Safe distances and any isolation need arranging ahead of the move, so send us the address early and we will allow for it.

We are leaving a unit at Colwick. Can you empty it before we hand it back?

Yes. Machines and racking you are not taking go for sale or disposal during the same visits. Give us the lease end date at survey and we plan the last visit around it.

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 Nottingham

Phone: 0115 718 6042
Email: nottingham@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 the next step.

We also provide factory relocation in Derby, Leicester, Chesterfield and Lincoln. See all the factory relocation locations.