Lab instruments are heavy where it hurts and fragile where it matters. Across the Indianapolis metro we rig, move, and set electron microscopes, NMR systems, ultra-low freezers, and process tools — on air-ride, inside buildings with tight corridors and strict rules, and ready for the vendor to bring back up.
Quick answer: Badass Logistics provides lab & precision equipment moving in Indianapolis, IN and the surrounding metro. We move heavy and precision lab equipment — electron microscopes, NMR, mass spectrometers, freezers, and semiconductor tools — with vibration and tilt care, sequenced around the vendor's decommission and requalification. Our crews work across Indianapolis and nearby Indiana metros, and moves between facilities run as project freight under the same plan — usually quoted the same day. Call (307) 284-1332.
A lab move fails in small ways: a column knocked out of alignment, a freezer tipped past its limit, a tool that won't requalify because it was handled outside its spec. In Indianapolis's university, research, and production labs, the equipment is usually worth more than the room it sits in, and the schedule is set by experiments and validation, not by the movers.
Badass Logistics plans lab moves around the vendor's requirements. Decommissioning, decontamination sign-off, and requalification stay with the OEM and your EHS team; we rig, crate, and move what they release, on air-ride equipment, with tilt and shock monitoring where the spec calls for it. Building-to-building moves run as one job, set at the far end by the same crew. How to move a lab freezer →
Lab moves in Indianapolis follow its research base: Eli Lilly and Company, Indiana University Indianapolis, and IU School of Medicine. Those are buildings full of instruments that cost more than the rooms they sit in, moved on timelines set by grants, validation, and experiments that can't be paused for long.
Indianapolis, IN runs on manufacturing & logistics core, and almost none of it stays put. Same crews and the same lab equipment moving standards across the region:
University core facilities, clinical labs, and production QC labs around Indianapolis all run on instruments that are heavy where it hurts and fragile where it matters. The equipment we move includes:
Clinical and hospital labs add to it — IU Health Methodist Hospital and Eskenazi Health run analyzers, freezers, and sterilizers that move every time a lab is reorganized. On the industrial side, the metro's pharmaceutical manufacturing and distribution, automotive and diesel parts and components, aerospace and jet engine component manufacturing, and intermodal freight and warehouse distribution keep QC and test labs of their own.
SEMs and TEMs moved with columns secured and vibration controlled across the Indianapolis metro.
Spectrometers and their consoles rigged and set for the vendor across the Indianapolis metro.
Ultra-low freezers and environmental equipment moved inside tilt limits across the Indianapolis metro.
Semiconductor tools, test stands, and instruments rigged in and out across the Indianapolis metro.
Plenty of Indianapolis jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-65, I-70 and I-69, or a facility in another state. We don't hand that part off. It runs as project freight inside the same plan: machines crated or prepped on site, loads sequenced to the rig-out, transport through our licensed broker and carrier partners with dedicated capacity for bigger moves, and our crew waiting at the destination to set it.
The buildings vary as much as the instruments: downtown towers, the IU Health and Lilly campuses, Lucas Oil Stadium and the convention center, and Indianapolis International Airport carry large central plant. Industrial test and QC labs sit further out, in the CSX Avon Yard and I-70 West corridor through Plainfield and Avon, the Norfolk Southern Hawthorne Yard rail district, the Airport Cargo District near Indianapolis International Airport, and the I-465 South industrial corridor, where a lab move often happens inside a plant that keeps running.
Every lab & precision equipment moving job in Indianapolis, IN is quoted from the actual work, not a rate sheet. These are the things that move the number — send them with your request and you'll get a real quote back fast:
Photos of the equipment, its nameplate, and the path out of the building save a site visit on smaller Indianapolis jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Indianapolis crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Indianapolis? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Indianapolis, IN and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Lab & Precision Equipment Moving throughout Indianapolis and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Carmel | Hamilton County | 15 mi |
| Fishers | Hamilton County | 15 mi |
| Greenwood | Johnson County | 11 mi |
| Plainfield | Hendricks County | 14 mi |
| Noblesville | Hamilton County | 21 mi |
| Whitestown | Boone County | 19 mi |
| Avon | Hendricks County | 13 mi |
| Franklin | Johnson County | 21 mi |
| Lebanon | Boone County | 25 mi |
| Anderson | Madison County | 34 mi |
| Bloomington | Monroe County | 46 mi |
| Kokomo | Howard County | 50 mi |
| Lawrence | Marion County | 9 mi |
| Columbus | Bartholomew County | 41 mi |
| Westfield | Hamilton County | 19 mi |
| Zionsville | Boone County | 14 mi |
| Brownsburg | Hendricks County | 14 mi |
| Greenfield | Hancock County | 21 mi |
| Fairfield Heights | Hendricks County | 13 mi |
| Shelbyville | Shelby County | 27 mi |
| New Castle | Henry County | 43 mi |
| Broad Ripple | Marion County | 7 mi |
| Frankfort | Clinton County | 40 mi |
| Crawfordsville | Montgomery County | 42 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Indianapolis services or get a quote.
Most Indianapolis jobs don't stop at one service. The crew that rigs a machine out is the crew that manages the move and sets it back down — so you're dealing with one company from the disconnect to the re-level, not three subcontractors pointing at each other.
Machine has to come off the floor, through the door, or onto a pad before it travels? That's the rigging side of the same Indianapolis crew.
rigging contractors in Indianapolis →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across Indianapolis as one accountable job.
industrial machinery movers in Indianapolis →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in Indianapolis.
machine tool movers in Indianapolis →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Indianapolis plants.
Indianapolis plant relocation →In Indianapolis we also run riggers, machinery movers, CNC movers, and plant relocation, plus project freight for the jobs we rig — or see every service we offer in Indianapolis.
The same Indianapolis crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, crane and rigging services, and machinery loading and unloading.
Specialty rigging in Indianapolis: heavy lift rigging, chiller and HVAC rigging, and MRI and medical equipment rigging.
Tell us what's moving and where. We'll route the nearest crew and quote it fast.
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