Getting a machine onto its pad in Reno is rigging. Getting it to run true is millwright work — set on its anchors, leveled to the builder's spec, shafts and couplings aligned, and the line put back together in order. Across the Reno metro, the crew that moved it is the crew that makes it ready to run.
Quick answer: Badass Logistics provides millwright & machine installation in Reno, NV and the surrounding metro. We set, anchor, level, and align industrial machinery and reassemble conveyors and lines, so equipment is handed off ready for utilities and start-up. Our crews work across Reno and nearby Nevada metros, and moves between facilities run as project freight under the same plan — usually quoted the same day. Call (307) 284-1332.
A machine that arrives in one piece can still fail on start-up. A soft foot, a coupling a few thousandths out, a conveyor transfer that sits proud of the next section — those are installation faults, not transport faults, and they show up as vibration, bearing wear, and scrap. In Reno's distribution & Tahoe-Reno gigafactory cluster plants, that is the work a millwright is there to prevent.
Badass Logistics sets equipment on baseplates and foundations, positions anchor bolts, chocks, and shim packs to the layout, levels to the builder's spec with precision and optical tools, and aligns motors, pumps, and gearboxes by laser or dial indicator. Electrical, piping, and grouting stay with the trades that own them — we sequence around them. When the machine is new, it can arrive as project freight; when it is being relocated, the move and the installation are one job.
Millwright work in Reno is set by what has to be installed: battery and cell-assembly equipment, large-scale material-handling and conveyor systems, cold-storage refrigeration equipment, and packaging and palletizing equipment, each with its own foundation, anchor pattern, and leveling tolerance. Those machines serve the metro's battery and EV component manufacturing, e-commerce warehousing and fulfillment, building products manufacturing, and cold-storage and food distribution, where a drive train a few thousandths out shows up as vibration, bearing wear, and scrap long before anyone calls it an installation fault.
Reno, NV runs on distribution & Tahoe-Reno gigafactory cluster, and almost none of it stays put. Same crews and the same millwright services standards across the region:
Reno's industrial base — distribution & Tahoe-Reno gigafactory cluster — runs on equipment that doesn't move like freight. Most work happens around live distribution and production operations that can't stop for the move. Typical millwright jobs for Reno customers include:
The floors matter as much as the machines. Reno's plants are large-format, tilt-up distribution and manufacturing buildings concentrated in the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center rather than an older urban industrial core, and an older slab is often why a machine needs a new pad, re-drilled anchors, or a grout crew before it can be leveled at all. Most of our Reno installation work lands in the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center (TRIC) in Storey County east of Reno and Union Pacific's Sparks Yard classification and intermodal district.
Equipment set on baseplates and foundations, anchors and shim packs positioned to the layout across the Reno metro.
Machines leveled to the builder's installation spec across the Reno metro.
Motors, pumps, gearboxes, and driven equipment aligned by laser or dial indicator across the Reno metro.
Conveyor sections, transfers, and production lines reassembled in order across the Reno metro.
Plenty of Reno jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-15 and I-80, 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.
Every millwright & machine installation job in Reno, NV 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 Reno jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Reno crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Reno? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Reno, NV and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Millwright & Machine Installation throughout Reno and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Sparks | Washoe County | 3 mi |
| Carson City | Carson City County | 25 mi |
| Fernley | Lyon County | 30 mi |
| Sun Valley | Washoe County | 5 mi |
| Spanish Springs | Washoe County | 10 mi |
| Fallon | Churchill County | 55 mi |
| Dayton | Lyon County | 23 mi |
| Gardnerville | Douglas County | 41 mi |
| Cold Springs | Washoe County | 14 mi |
| South Lake Tahoe, CA | El Dorado County | 42 mi |
| Truckee, CA | Nevada County | 24 mi |
| Gardnerville Ranchos | Douglas County | 45 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Reno services, Millwright Services across Nevada or get a quote.
We run millwright & machine installation in metros across Nevada — pick the nearest crew:
Most Reno 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 Reno crew.
rigging contractors in Reno →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across Reno as one accountable job.
industrial machinery movers in Reno →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in Reno.
machine tool movers in Reno →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Reno plants.
Reno plant relocation →In Reno 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 Reno.
The same Reno crew also handles machinery removal.
Tell us what's moving and where. We'll route the nearest crew and quote it fast.
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