When a Memphis distribution and manufacturing operation expands, consolidates, or relocates, the whole floor moves — production lines, machines, utilities and all. We plan and run full plant and production-line relocations across the Memphis metro, sequenced so the line is down only for the move window, not a day longer.
Quick answer: Badass Logistics provides plant & factory relocation in Memphis, TN and the surrounding metro. We plan and run full plant and production-line moves — disconnect, sequenced transport, reinstall, and recommission — so the floor is down only for the move window. Our crews work across Memphis and nearby Tennessee metros, and moves between facilities run as project freight under the same plan — usually quoted the same day. Call (307) 284-1332.
A plant move isn't one big lift — it's dozens of moves in the right order: disconnect, teardown, sequenced transport, reinstall, recommission. Get the sequence wrong and the new floor sits half-built while production bleeds. Across Memphis's America's distribution crossroads sector, Badass Logistics owns the whole project with one accountable crew.
We map the path of travel and floor loadings at both sites, tear down and label, run the loads as project freight on dedicated lanes, and rig and set every machine back to spec in the new layout. Single line, full facility, or a multi-site consolidation — one plan, one team, one schedule.
A Memphis plant move is shaped first by where the plant is: the Frank C. Pidgeon Industrial Park on President's Island, the Memphis International Airport air-cargo corridor, and the President's Island Mississippi River industrial district hold most of the metro's industrial floor space. What has to come out of those buildings follows the metro's distribution and air-cargo logistics, food and agricultural processing, chemical manufacturing, and agricultural equipment manufacturing — and that is what sets the teardown order, because the equipment that takes longest to recommission has to move first.
Plenty of Memphis, TN work — America's distribution crossroads — moves across state lines before it lands. We run the same plant relocation crews through these TN and regional markets:
Memphis's industrial base — America's distribution crossroads — 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 plant moves for Memphis customers include:
A Memphis equipment schedule typically runs to material handling conveyors, palletizers and sortation equipment, food processing lines, and grain and bulk handling equipment, and the order those come apart and go back together is the plan. The local stock — large single-storey clear-span distribution buildings around the airport corridor alongside older industrial buildings on President's Island built around barge and rail-served docks — is what turns a sequence on paper into a sequence that survives rig day.
Sequenced teardown, transport, and reinstall of complete lines across the Memphis metro.
Multi-machine cells relocated and re-leveled in the new layout across the Memphis metro.
Compressors, dust collection, conveyors, and support equipment across the Memphis metro.
Consolidating two floors into one, or splitting to a new building across the Memphis metro.
Plenty of Memphis jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-40, I-65, I-24 and I-75, 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.
Plant moves rarely stay inside Memphis. Served by BNSF, Union Pacific, Canadian National, CSX and Norfolk Southern, making Memphis one of only a few US metros with five Class I railroads, with Canadian National operating its second-largest classification yard in the country here. The Port of Memphis on the Mississippi River at President's Island is one of the largest inland ports in the country, handling bulk grain, fertilizer and industrial cargo by barge. With I-40, I-65, I-24 and I-75 for the road legs, a consolidation or a move to a sister plant usually has several workable routings — and which one we use changes the crating, the sequence, and how long anything sits in staging.
Every plant & factory relocation job in Memphis, TN 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 Memphis jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Memphis crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Memphis? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Memphis, TN and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Plant & Factory Relocation throughout Memphis and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Bartlett | Shelby County | 11 mi |
| Germantown | Shelby County | 14 mi |
| Collierville | Shelby County | 23 mi |
| Southaven, MS | DeSoto County | 11 mi |
| Olive Branch, MS | DeSoto County | 18 mi |
| Millington | Shelby County | 16 mi |
| Horn Lake, MS | DeSoto County | 13 mi |
| West Memphis, AR | Crittenden County | 8 mi |
| Cordova | Shelby County | 15 mi |
| Ellendale | Shelby County | 14 mi |
| Hernando, MS | DeSoto County | 23 mi |
| Forrest City, AR | St. Francis County | 43 mi |
| Lakeland | Shelby County | 18 mi |
| Marion, AR | Crittenden County | 10 mi |
| Arlington | Shelby County | 24 mi |
| Atoka | Tipton County | 25 mi |
| Covington | Tipton County | 37 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Memphis services, Plant Relocation across Tennessee or get a quote.
We run plant & factory relocation in metros across Tennessee — pick the nearest crew:
Most Memphis 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 Memphis crew.
Memphis industrial rigging →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across Memphis as one accountable job.
Memphis machinery movers →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in Memphis.
Memphis CNC machine moving →In Memphis we also run riggers, machinery movers, and CNC movers, plus project freight for the jobs we rig — or see every service we offer in Memphis.
The same Memphis crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, crane and rigging services, and machinery loading and unloading.
Specialty rigging in Memphis: heavy lift rigging, chiller and HVAC rigging, transformer and generator rigging, MRI and medical equipment rigging, lab equipment moving, and data center rigging.
Tell us what's moving and where. We'll route the nearest crew and quote it fast.
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