Need reliable heavy machinery & industrial equipment movers in Ottawa, Ontario? Rigging-Busters’ machinery movers and riggers rig, skid, lift, load, transport and set in place industrial equipment across Ottawa, from Kanata and Nepean to Gloucester and Orléans, whether it is a single CNC machine, a printing press or a full production line.
We specialize in industrial machinery moving, heavy equipment rigging, lifting, erecting, loading/unloading, relocation, and transportation services. As heavy equipment movers for Ottawa plants, labs, print shops and technology firms, we plan each move so your equipment arrives safely and your downtime stays short.
- Industrial work only: plant, lab and production equipment for Ottawa facilities, not homes or offices.
- The same crew from first lift to final level: rigging, trucking, set-in-place and millwright work in one booking.
- Quick replies: quotes within 2–4 business hours of your request.
- Service area: Ottawa, ON, Kanata and the surrounding area, within about 50 km of the city.
Budgeting a move? Our Heavy Lifting & Moving Calculator returns a rough price range estimation before you call.
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Our crew moves heavy industrial equipment, from small, sensitive instruments to large machine tools and presses. Every lift in an Ottawa building starts with numbers: the weight, centre of gravity and lifting points, the floor rating and every doorway between the machine and the truck. Only then do we pick machinery skates, a hydraulic gantry, jack-and-roll, or an overhead lift by a licensed crane partner.
That planning is what gets a machine across a shop floor, or from Kanata to a new building in the east end, without damage to the floor, the doorway or the machine.
Estimates are free. Send the job details and we will plan the method, the crew and any permits for your Ottawa move.
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Who We Are: Heavy Machinery Movers and Riggers in Ottawa
For Ottawa industry, we are heavy-duty machine movers, riggers, and erectors: heavy machinery movers who work in plants, labs, print shops and technical facilities across the city and the Ottawa Valley.
Our machinery relocation specialists move machine tools, printing presses, lab and process equipment and heavy electrical gear for Ottawa plants, research facilities and technology firms, from Kanata North to the east-end industrial areas.
We bring the tools for moving heavy equipment, from rigging gear, skates and forklifts to trailers, and the planning that bulky, complex Ottawa projects need, such as a downtown delivery timed around the rush-hour bans on oversize moves.
How We Move Heavy Machinery in Ottawa
An Ottawa machinery move runs through seven steps, from the first photos to the final level check:
- Photos and specs: nameplate data, weight and footprint for each machine, the two addresses, how we get in and when you need it done.
- A walk-through when needed: door openings, dock heights, freight elevators, slab capacity, lifting points and the path to the truck.
- Plan and permits: method, crew size and schedule. An oversize load needs a City of Ottawa over-dimensional vehicle permit (allow 10 business days) and, on Highway 417 or 416, an MTO oversize/overweight permit, which Ontario asks carriers to request at least 5 business days ahead.
- Shutdown and lockout: your licensed electricians cut and lock out power, and your maintenance team isolates compressed air, water and process lines.
- Rig-out and loading: rated slings, skates, a gantry or jack-and-roll bring the machine out, and it is chained and blocked on the trailer.
- The drive: a trailer sized to the load, a route clear of posted bridges and the downtown time bans, and escorts when the load calls for them.
- Set, level, hand over: the machine goes onto its new footprint, is levelled and left ready for reconnection, with millwright installation if you want it.
Equipment Our Crew Uses
For Ottawa jobs, our industrial equipment and machine movers bring:
- Machinery skates and dollies for rolling machines through corridors and production bays
- Hydraulic gantries to pick machines in rooms with no overhead crane
- Jack-and-roll sets that raise the heaviest units a little at a time and roll them into position
- Heavy-capacity lift trucks and industrial forklifts for loading, offloading and placing machines
- Flatbeds, lowboys and tilt-deck trailers matched to each load for heavy machinery transport
- Licensed crane partners for the occasional lift that needs a crane
Machinery Transport and Permits in Ottawa
Every load into or out of Ottawa travels on a trailer matched to it, and we arrange the permits and any escorts. Under the City’s Over-Dimensional Vehicles By-law (2003-497), a vehicle or load 2.6 m wide, 4.15 m high, 21 m long or 63,500 kg or more needs a City of Ottawa over-dimensional vehicle permit. The City asks for 10 business days of processing time, though a single-trip permit can be ready in 3, and over-dimensional moves are not allowed in the downtown core from 7:00 to 9:30 a.m. or from 3:30 to 6:00 p.m. Permits are not valid on roads and bridges with posted load restrictions, and Highway 417 and other provincial highways need an MTO permit. The NCC parkways are closed to commercial vehicles, so heavy loads are routed around them.
Millwright Installation and Levelling
Our millwrights place each machine on its new footprint, level and align it, and leave the connections for your electricians. Equipment too large to travel whole is taken apart at the old location and rebuilt at the new one, whether that is across one Ottawa building or from Kanata to Nepean or Orléans.
Moving a machine within your Ottawa building, with no truck involved? That is rigging only: see industrial rigging services in Ottawa, or browse all our services in Ottawa.
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What We Move: CNC Machines, Printing Presses and Plant Equipment
In-plant moves, moves between buildings or out to a customer site, and new machines to unload and set: our industrial machinery moving specialists handle all of them, for equipment such as:
- CNC machines, lathe machines and precision industry machines for machine shops and research facilities
- Commercial printing machines, printing presses, wood printing machines, and folding and paper cutting machines for print shops
- Metal forming equipment, stamping presses and cutting tools
- Food and beverage processing machines and packaging machines for local food producers
- Welding machines, textile machines, and plastic and rubber machines
- Aerospace manufacturing apparatus and machines for the automotive industry
- Transformers, generators, switchgear and other heavy plant equipment
Industries We Serve in Ottawa and Kanata
Ottawa’s industry leans on technology, telecom, defence and security firms, with Kanata North among Canada’s largest technology parks, alongside research labs, printers, food producers and the utilities and data centres that serve the capital. We move the heavy equipment in those facilities: machine tools and production equipment, heavy lab and process equipment, printing presses, generators, transformers and switchgear, plus machinery for equipment dealers and auction buyers.
Equipment Loading, Unloading and Offloading
New machines often arrive on a flatbed with no dock or forklift big enough to take them off. We offload the equipment at your Ottawa site, rig it through the doors, set it on its footprint and level it, or load outgoing machines onto the truck for a buyer or a new plant. More on heavy equipment loading and unloading in Ottawa.
Generators, Transformers and Switchgear
Data centres, hospitals, research campuses and plants in the capital rely on heavy electrical equipment. We rig generators, transformers, switchgear and UPS units off the truck, skid them into electrical rooms and set them on their pads, working to your contractor’s shutdown plan; your licensed electricians make every connection. See electrical transformer moving in Ottawa.
How We Move CNC Machines
Your team or the OEM saves the control parameters and drains the coolant, and we lock the axes and secure the spindle. The machine then comes up on a gantry or a heavy-capacity forklift, rolls out on skates, and is set and levelled on its new footprint, ready for the OEM technician to recommission. More on CNC machine moving in Ottawa.
Each Ottawa job is planned around your production calendar, so machines are down for as few shifts as possible.
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How We Estimate Machinery Moving Cost in Ottawa
We price each Ottawa machinery move individually, from photos or a site visit. These are the factors that move the number:
- The equipment: weight, dimensions, structure and the number of machines.
- The building: working space, floor condition, and any stairs, ramps, docks or narrow doors along the way.
- The work: loading, unloading and other handling, crating, and whether machines must be dismantled and re-assembled.
- Crew and gear: how many industrial movers and erectors, and which heavy-moving gear, for how long.
- The road: whether transportation is required and how far, plus permits and escorts for oversize loads on City of Ottawa and provincial roads.
- The clock: shutdown windows, nights or weekends, the downtown-core time windows and seasonal load restrictions.
- Anything else: storage or freight between sites, and other work specific to your job.
Quotes are in Canadian dollars (CAD).
When you compare Ottawa movers, check that each quote covers rigging, transport and set-in-place, or the totals will not line up. Our machinery moving cost calculator gives a rough range first.
Service Area: Ottawa, Kanata and Nearby
We work within about 50 km of Ottawa. Inside the city that covers Kanata, including the Kanata North and Kanata West business parks, Stittsville and the Carp Road corridor, Nepean with Bells Corners and the Colonnade and South Merivale business parks, the Albion-Leitrim and airport business parks, the Hawthorne-Stevenage, Sheffield and Canotek industrial areas in the east end, and Orléans. Around Ottawa we cover Arnprior, Almonte, Carleton Place, Kemptville, Russell, Embrun, Casselman and Rockland, and we haul equipment across the river to and from Gatineau.
Neighbouring service areas: machinery movers in Kanata and Kingston. Service en français : déménageurs de machinerie lourde à Ottawa.
Key Cities We Serve Around Ottawa
| City | Province | Country |
|---|---|---|
| Ottawa | Ontario | Canada |
| Almonte | Ontario | Canada |
| Arnprior | Ontario | Canada |
| Aylmer | Quebec | Canada |
| Buckingham | Quebec | Canada |
| Carleton Place | Ontario | Canada |
| Casselman | Ontario | Canada |
| Embrun | Ontario | Canada |
| Gatineau | Quebec | Canada |
| Greely | Ontario | Canada |
| Kanata | Ontario | Canada |
| Kemptville | Ontario | Canada |
| Richmond | Ontario | Canada |
| Rockland | Ontario | Canada |
| Russell | Ontario | Canada |
| Stittsville | Ontario | Canada |
| Thurso | Quebec | Canada |
We take on local Ottawa moves, runs up the Ottawa Valley, moves elsewhere in Ontario, and cross-border transport to and from the US. Heading toward Toronto or southwestern Ontario? Our machinery movers across Ontario page links the city pages for the rest of the province.
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Key Advantages: Why Ottawa Facilities Hire Us
What Ottawa facilities get when they hire us:
- Fast, free professional project estimates, answered within 2–4 business hours, so budgets and shutdown plans can be set early.
- Industrial specialists: machinery, lab and plant equipment only.
- One team on the job: the riggers who skid the machine out also truck it, set it and level it.
- Methods for tight buildings: skates, gantries and jack-and-roll, with licensed crane partners when a lift needs a crane.
- Permits and routing handled: City of Ottawa over-dimensional vehicle permits and MTO permits, with routes that avoid posted bridges and the downtown rush-hour bans.
- Scheduled around operations: nights, weekends or your shutdown window, so labs and lines lose as little time as possible.
A good fit: a single CNC machine or printing press, generators and transformers for data centres and campuses, new equipment that needs offloading and setting, plant moves and closures, and dealers who need delivery and installation.
Not a fit: crane or equipment rental, equipment repair, and household or office moves, including pianos and safes.
Have These Ready for an Exact Quote
Give us these six things and an Ottawa quote comes back faster and firmer. Send them with your quote request:
- The scope: one machine, a delivery to offload and set, a line, or a whole plant
- Machine data: make, model, weight and size, ideally with a nameplate photo
- Both sites: addresses, dock or grade-level door, door width, freight elevators, stairs and floor
- Timing: your dates or shutdown window, and whether the route runs through the downtown core
- Add-ons: trucking, set-in-place and levelling, crating, storage or millwright work
- Photos of the machine and the way out of the building
Other Services in Ottawa
See the full list under all our services in Ottawa, Ontario, or start with these related services for Ottawa facilities:
- Heavy & Industrial Rigging Services in Ottawa, ON
- Factory & Plant Relocation Services in Ottawa, ON
- Lab & Medical Equipment Movers in Ottawa, ON
- Forklift Moving Service in Ottawa, ON
- CNC Machine Movers in Ottawa, ON
- Printing Press Movers in Ottawa, ON
- Electrical Transformer Moving Services in Ottawa, ON
- Heavy Equipment Loading & Unloading in Ottawa, ON
Location of our sales office:
955 Green Valley Crescent, Ottawa, ON K2C 3K7, Canada 👇
Machinery Moving in Ottawa: FAQ
Industrial machinery movers are rigging crews that relocate heavy plant equipment. They plan the lift, rig the machine, skid it on skates, gantries or jack-and-roll, load and transport it, then set, level and often install it at the new site. In Ottawa and Kanata we do this for machine tools, presses, printing equipment, generators and other industrial equipment, never household goods.
Heavy equipment lifted at the wrong points, rolled over a weak floor or loaded without a plan can tip, crack the slab or be damaged. Professional movers check the weight, centre of gravity and route first, use rated rigging and the right method, and secure each load for the road. That protects your equipment, your building and your schedule, and keeps your people safe.
Machinery riggers rig, lift and place heavy loads. They choose rated slings and lifting points, work out the centre of gravity, and lift, skid or set each machine with gantries, skates or jack-and-roll. If you need rigging only inside an Ottawa building, with no trucking, see our industrial rigging services in Ottawa or send us the job for a rigging-only quote.
Each machinery move is priced per job. The cost depends on the weight and size of each machine, access at both ends, the lifting method, distance, permits and escorts for oversize loads, and timing, including downtown time windows. Use our Heavy Lifting and Moving Calculator for a rough range, or send the make, model, weight and both addresses for an exact quote.
Yes, on City roads once the vehicle or load is 2.6 m wide, 4.15 m high, 21 m long or 63,500 kg or more. The City asks for 10 business days of processing, though single-trip permits can take 3, and bans oversize moves in the downtown core during rush hours. Highway 417 and other provincial highways need an MTO permit. We arrange the permits and escorts.
Yes. When a new machine arrives on a flatbed and your forklift or dock cannot handle it, we offload it, rig it through the doors, set it on its footprint and level it, ready for the supplier or your electricians. We also load outgoing machines for buyers. See heavy equipment loading and unloading in Ottawa.
Yes. Lathes, mills, machining centres and press brakes are routine moves. For a CNC machine the axes are locked and the spindle secured, and your team or the OEM backs up the parameters and drains the coolant before we lift it with a gantry or forklift and roll it on skates. See CNC machine moving in Ottawa for details.
Yes. Our millwrights set each machine on its new footprint, level and align it, and leave it ready for your licensed electricians to reconnect power. Machines that must travel in sections are dismantled at the old site and reassembled at the new one, so a move across Ottawa, from Kanata to the east end, finishes with the equipment ready to commission.
All of Ottawa, including Kanata, Stittsville, Nepean, Barrhaven, Gloucester and Orléans, the Kanata North and South Merivale business parks and the east-end industrial areas. We also cover Arnprior, Almonte, Carleton Place, Kemptville, Russell, Embrun and Rockland, haul equipment to and from Gatineau, and move machinery between Ottawa, the rest of Ontario and the US.
No. Rigging-Busters moves industrial machinery and plant equipment only, such as CNC machines, printing presses, production equipment, generators and transformers. For a home or office move in Ottawa, please contact a residential or commercial moving company, and for repairs or crane and equipment rental, a specialist in those services. If you need a machine or a plant moved, send us the details.
