Need reliable heavy machinery and industrial equipment movers in Kitchener, Ontario? Rigging-Busters is a crew of machinery movers and riggers for manufacturers in Kitchener, Waterloo and Cambridge. We specialize in industrial machinery moving, heavy equipment rigging, lifting, erecting, loading and unloading, machine relocations and transportation across Waterloo Region.
We move equipment for automotive and parts suppliers, automation and machine builders, plastics moulders, metal fabricators, food processors and machinery dealers, from one lathe shifted across a shop floor to a full press line relocated between Kitchener and Cambridge.
- Industrial work only: machines and plant equipment, never household, office or furniture moves.
- One crew from start to finish: rigging, transport, set-in-place, levelling and millwright installation.
- Quick replies: quotes within 2–4 business hours.
- Where we work: Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge and the townships of Waterloo Region, plus Guelph, Stratford and Brantford.
Want a rough number before you call? Our Heavy Lifting & Moving Calculator gives a quick price range.
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Every machine is different, so every move starts with a plan. Small and delicate or large and complex, we first confirm what it weighs, where its centre of gravity sits, where it can be lifted and what the floor will carry, and we check the path from its foundation to the truck. That tells us the right method: skates, a hydraulic gantry, jack-and-roll, or a lift by one of our licensed crane partners.
Planned this way, the machine arrives in one piece, your building is untouched and production restarts when you expected.
Estimates are free. Send us the details and let us handle all your machinery moving needs, from the first walk-through to start-up.
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Who We Are: Machinery Movers and Riggers in Kitchener-Waterloo
We are heavy-duty machine movers, riggers and erectors serving manufacturers across Kitchener, Waterloo and Cambridge. A single crew takes your job from survey to start-up: it rigs the machine, hauls it, sets it on its new footprint and levels it, so nothing gets lost in a hand-off between contractors.
Our machinery relocation specialists handle machine relocations of every size: across a shop floor, between buildings on one site, from a dealer’s truck onto its foundation, or from a Kitchener plant to a new customer site in Cambridge, Guelph or further afield. Our heavy machinery moving services put the rigging, transport and millwright work in one quote.
We supply the skates, gantries, forklifts and trailers each job needs, so even a multi-machine project with tight doors or a short shutdown stays with one crew.
How We Move Heavy Machinery in Kitchener-Waterloo
A machinery move in Kitchener-Waterloo or Cambridge, whether one machine is going across the floor or a whole line is heading down Highway 401, follows these seven steps:
- Details and photos: make, model, weight and dimensions, the pick-up and delivery addresses, access at each site and your target dates.
- Walk-through if needed: door widths, floor condition, ramps, docks, pick points and the path to the trailer.
- Method, crew and permits: the lifting method, crew size and schedule, plus oversize load permits where the load needs them: the Region of Waterloo for Regional roads, an MTO oversize/overweight permit for Highway 401, Highway 8 or the Conestoga Parkway, and any city or township permit on the route.
- Shut-off and lockout: your maintenance staff or your licensed electricians isolate power, air and water and lock the machine out.
- Rig and load: rated slings, skates, a gantry or jack-and-roll take the machine off its foundation and onto the trailer, where it is chained down for the road.
- Haul: a flatbed or lowboy sized to the load, with escorts arranged when its dimensions call for them.
- Place, level and hand over: the machine goes onto its new footprint, is levelled and handed back for reconnection, with millwright installation available.
Equipment Our Machine Movers Bring to Your Site
- Machinery skates, dollies and rollers to roll machines across the floor
- Steel and aluminum hydraulic gantries for machinery lifting where the building has no overhead crane
- Jack-and-roll systems to raise heavy equipment in stages
- Industrial forklifts for loading, unloading and placing machines
- Rated slings, chains, shackles and mechanical tools for every lift
- Semi-trucks with flatbed and lowboy trailers for heavy machinery transport
- Boom-truck and crane lifts through licensed crane partners when a job needs one
Machinery Transport and Permits in Waterloo Region
Our oversized and heavy equipment movers haul machinery in and out of Kitchener, Waterloo and Cambridge on trailers sized to each load and take care of permits and escorts. On Regional roads, a load beyond the Highway Traffic Act limits on height, length, width or weight needs an oversize load permit from the Region of Waterloo. The Region’s permit terms require a route survey before a permit is issued and set a minimum processing time of 10 business days, or 20 for a superload.
Superloads over 119,999 kg also need a traffic management plan from an Ontario-licensed engineer, which the Region may share with its ION Rapid Transit team, and police escorts are arranged with Waterloo Regional Police when required. A Regional permit does not replace provincial or city permits: Highway 401, Highway 8 and the Conestoga Parkway are MTO roads, and seasonal half-load limits are checked with each city or township. Waterloo Region plants shipping a machine to the GTA, London or Windsor can see how the haul is planned in machinery transport across Ontario.
Millwright Installation and Levelling
At the new site our millwrights place each machine on its marks, level and align it, and leave it ready for your electricians to reconnect. Equipment too large to travel in one piece is split at the old plant and rebuilt at the new one.
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What We Move: CNC Machines, Presses and Automation Lines
Our industrial machinery moving specialists in Kitchener, Waterloo and Cambridge handle:
- CNC Machines
- Precision Industry Machines
- Lathe Machines
- Packaging Machines
- Cutting Tools
- Stamping Presses
- Textile Machines
- Plastic & Rubber Machines, including injection moulding machines
- Welding Machines
- Metal Forming Equipment
- Aerospace Manufacturing Apparatus
- Commercial Printing Machines
- Wood Printing Machines
- Printing Presses
- Folding & Paper Cutting Machines
- Machines for Automotive Industry
- Robotic cells, conveyors and factory automation equipment
- Food & Beverage Processing Machines
- Transformers, switchgear and generators
- Heavy lab and medical equipment
- Other Weighty Equipment
Industries We Serve in Kitchener, Waterloo and Cambridge
Manufacturing runs deep in Waterloo Region. Waterloo EDC lists Toyota’s vehicle plant and the automation builders ATS and Eclipse Automation in Cambridge, and Dare Foods and furniture maker Krug in Kitchener, among the region’s largest manufacturers. We move machinery for companies in the same sectors: automotive parts, automation and robotics, plastics, metal fabrication, food processing and furniture, plus machinery dealers and auction buyers.
Automation and Assembly Line Relocations
Automated cells and assembly lines are moved as a system. Before anything is unbolted we photograph and tag every machine, conveyor section and guard, record the layout and agree the order in which the line comes back together. At the new site each piece goes onto its marks and is levelled and aligned, and your licensed electricians and controls team reconnect power and recommission.
How We Move CNC Machines and Injection Moulding Machines
For a CNC machine we lock the axes and secure the spindle, while your team or the OEM backs up the parameters and drains the coolant. An injection moulding machine has its mould removed first and is lifted only at its designated points. Both travel on skates, a gantry or a heavy-capacity forklift and are set in place and levelled, ready for recommissioning. More on CNC machine movers in Kitchener.
The same planning covers new machinery unloading for dealers and used machines collected from auctions: before any industrial equipment move, our heavy-duty movers assess the equipment and build a transportation plan that keeps downtime for your business short.
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How We Estimate Machinery Moving Cost in Kitchener
There is no price list: each machinery moving or relocation job in Kitchener-Waterloo is estimated individually, from the details you send or a site visit.
The price depends on factors such as:
- Weight, dimensions, structure and number of items.
- Distance and complexity of the moving or skidding route.
- Working space and how even the floors are.
- Stairs, ramps, docks or tight doors on the way out.
- Loading, unloading and any other handling.
- Whether crating, packing or unpacking is needed.
- Whether machines must be dismantled and reassembled.
- Whether transportation is required, and how far.
- How many industrial movers and erectors the job takes.
- Which heavy-moving gear is needed, and for how long. Crane time, when a lift needs one, is billed with minimum hours.
- Oversize load permits and escorts from the Region of Waterloo, the MTO or a city, and the lead time they need.
- Whether storage or freight is required.
- Shutdown windows, evening and weekend work, and anything else specific to your job.
- We estimate our work in Canadian dollars (CAD).
The cheapest-looking quote is not always the cheapest move: one that leaves out rigging or set-in-place gets topped up later. Ask for rigging, transport and installation in one price so you can compare machinery movers in Kitchener like for like, and use the Heavy Lifting & Moving Calculator for a first rough range.
Service Area: Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge and Waterloo Region
Our heavy machinery movers work across Kitchener, Waterloo and Cambridge within about a 50 km radius. In Kitchener that means Huron Business Park, the industrial lands off Homer Watson Boulevard and older industrial streets such as Manitou Drive and Shoemaker Street. In Waterloo it includes the Northfield Drive area and the City’s Generation Park industrial lands on the west side; in Cambridge, the plants of Galt, Preston and Hespeler and the industry along Highway 401.
We also serve the townships: Elmira, St. Jacobs and Breslau in Woolwich, New Hamburg and Baden in Wilmot, Wellesley, and Ayr in North Dumfries, along with Stratford, Woodstock, Paris, Elora and Fergus. Nearby service areas: Guelph, Brantford, Milton, Hamilton and London.
Key Cities We Serve Around Kitchener-Waterloo
| City | Province | Country |
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| Kitchener | Ontario | Canada |
| Ayr | Ontario | Canada |
| Baden | Ontario | Canada |
| Brantford | Ontario | Canada |
| Cambridge | Ontario | Canada |
| Guelph | Ontario | Canada |
| Elmira | Ontario | Canada |
| Elora | Ontario | Canada |
| Fergus | Ontario | Canada |
| Milton | Ontario | Canada |
| Milverton | Ontario | Canada |
| New Hamburg | Ontario | Canada |
| Paris | Ontario | Canada |
| Stratford | Ontario | Canada |
| Tavistock | Ontario | Canada |
| Waterloo | Ontario | Canada |
| Woodstock | Ontario | Canada |
Moving equipment locally within Waterloo Region or to a plant elsewhere in Ontario? We rig at both ends and run the transport in between, with one quote for the whole job. Our machinery movers across Ontario page shows the other cities we serve, from London and Windsor to Barrie, Ottawa and Kingston.
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Key Advantages: Why Waterloo Region Plants Hire Us
We provide the following benefits for your business:
- Free estimates, fast: quote replies within 2–4 business hours, so you can plan and budget.
- Industrial only: machinery and plant equipment, with every lift and turn of a complicated machine worked out before moving day.
- One crew from survey to start-up: rigging, transport, set-in-place, levelling and millwright installation.
- The right heavy-lift method: skates, gantries and jack-and-roll, with crane lifts through licensed partners.
- Permits sorted early: Region of Waterloo, city and MTO permits for oversize loads, booked with the Region’s 10-business-day minimum in mind.
- Built around your production: moves timed to shutdowns, model changeovers and holiday breaks to keep downtime short.
- Insured: liability and workers’ compensation insurance (WSIB in Ontario), with a certificate of insurance on request.
A good fit: single machines, automation and assembly lines, plant relocations and closures, forklift and lift-truck transport, auction removals, and dealers who need new machinery unloaded, set in place and installed.
Not a fit: household, apartment or office moves, commercial furniture, pool tables, pianos and hot tubs, crane or equipment rental, and equipment repair.
Have These Ready for an Exact Quote
Send these with your quote request and we can price the job faster and more precisely:
- The job: one machine, a line, a plant relocation or closure, or an auction pickup
- Make, model, weight and size (a nameplate photo is enough)
- Pick-up and delivery addresses with access: docks, door sizes, stairs and floors
- Timing: target dates or your shutdown window
- Extras: transport, set-in-place and levelling, crating, storage or millwright work
- Photos of the machine and the route out of the building
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Machinery Moving in Kitchener-Waterloo: FAQ
Industrial machinery movers, also called machinery moving companies or machine movers, relocate heavy plant equipment rather than household goods. They rig and lift the machine, skid it out, load and haul it, then set it on its new footprint and level it. Our crew also dismantles and reinstalls machines and does millwright work for plants in Kitchener, Waterloo and Cambridge, from a single lathe to a whole production floor.
It depends on the job, so each one is quoted separately. A small machine moved across a shop costs far less than a press line hauled from Kitchener to Cambridge with permits. Weight, size, access, the lifting method, distance and timing drive the price. Our Heavy Lifting and Moving Calculator gives a first rough range, and photos plus both addresses get you an exact quote.
Only for loads beyond the Highway Traffic Act limits on height, length, width or weight, and we apply for them. The Region of Waterloo issues permits for Regional roads and needs at least 10 business days, or 20 for a superload. Highway 401, Highway 8 and the Conestoga Parkway need an MTO permit, and a city or township may add its own requirements.
We start with the numbers: weight, centre of gravity, lifting points and what your floor will take. Then we walk the route to the dock, check door widths and turns, and pick the method: skates, a hydraulic gantry, jack-and-roll, or a licensed crane partner for an overhead lift. The machine is rigged with rated slings, secured on a matched trailer and levelled at its new spot.
Riggers are the people who lift and place the machine. They work out where its weight sits, choose rated slings, chains and shackles, and raise, lower or skid the load with gantries, jacks, skates or a crane. On a full move they hand over to the transport crew; for in-plant work they do the whole job. For rigging only, see our industrial rigging services in Kitchener.
Yes. We agree the removal window and site rules with the seller, rig the machine out, load and haul it, then set it in place and level it at your plant in Kitchener, Waterloo or Cambridge. Send the lot or listing details, the pickup address and the removal deadline, and we will quote the whole job, including any permits for oversize loads.
Yes. Small does not mean simple: a compact CNC lathe or a surface grinder can still weigh several tonnes and needs careful handling. We move single small machines inside a shop, between units in the same industrial park or across Waterloo Region, with the same planning, rated rigging and levelling as a big job, and quotes within 2 to 4 business hours.
Because a dropped or tipped machine is costly in every sense: injuries, a cracked floor, a damaged spindle or a missed delivery. Professional machinery movers check weight and floor capacity first, lift with rated gear instead of improvised tools, arrange road permits and fit the work into your shutdown. In Waterloo Region that also means applying for Regional permits early enough for their 10 business day minimum.
All of Kitchener, Waterloo and Cambridge, including Huron Business Park, north Waterloo and the Galt, Preston and Hespeler areas, plus the townships of Woolwich, Wilmot, Wellesley and North Dumfries. We also cover Stratford, Woodstock, Paris, Elora and Fergus, and move machinery between Waterloo Region and Guelph, Brantford and the rest of Ontario.
No. We move industrial machinery and plant equipment only. For an office or commercial move, a home or apartment, furniture, pool tables, pianos or hot tubs, a commercial or household moving company in Kitchener is the better choice. Call us when the load is a CNC machine, a press, an automation line, a transformer or the contents of a whole plant.
