A press is a line of machines that has to go back together exactly as it came apart. Across the Boston metro we take presses and bindery equipment down unit by unit with your technicians, rig and crate each piece, and set them back in order so the press can be brought up again.
Quick answer: Badass Logistics provides printing press moving in Boston, MA and the surrounding metro. We move offset, web, flexo, and digital presses and bindery lines — disassembled with your press technicians, rigged, crated, moved, and reassembled in order. Our crews work across Boston and nearby Massachusetts metros, and moves between facilities run as project freight under the same plan — usually quoted the same day. Call (307) 284-1332.
Moving a press is mostly a sequencing problem. Each printing unit, the feeder, the delivery, the dryers and the controls come apart in an order, travel as separate loads, and have to reach the new floor in the order they go back down. In Boston, print and packaging shops run tight schedules, so the downtime window is usually what the whole plan is built around.
Badass Logistics works alongside your press technicians or the manufacturer's: they handle the mechanical and electrical disconnects, and we rig, skid, crate, and load each section. At the new site we set the units on the layout and our millwrights level and align them for the technicians to reconnect. Moving the whole plant? That's plant relocation. How to move a printing press →
Boston's print and packaging base includes Boston Globe Taunton printing plant. Shops like these replace and relocate presses on tight downtime windows, so the teardown, the loads, and the reassembly are scheduled as one job.
Boston, MA runs on manufacturing & port, and almost none of it stays put. Same crews and the same printing press moving standards across the region:
Commercial printers, newspaper plants, and packaging and converting shops around Boston run lines that come apart in sections. The equipment we move includes:
The floor is the constraint. Boston's industrial buildings are a mix of dense multi-storey brick mill buildings in Chelsea and Everett with narrow loading bays and older waterfront warehouses with low dock clearances, and a press needs a level slab with the capacity for its heaviest unit before anything is set. Most print and converting floors here sit in the Chelsea and Everett industrial district south of Route 16, anchored by the New England Produce Center, the Grand Junction Railroad corridor linking Allston, Cambridge, Charlestown, Everett and Chelsea, and the Conley Terminal container-port district in South Boston.
Multi-unit sheetfed presses taken down, moved, and set in sequence across the Boston metro.
Web press units, folders, and reel stands rigged and relocated across the Boston metro.
Flexo, converting, and packaging lines moved for packaging plants across the Boston metro.
Cutters, folders, stitchers, and finishing lines moved and set across the Boston metro.
Plenty of Boston jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-90, I-95 and I-93, 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.
Presses moving into or out of Boston rarely travel as one load. The Port of Boston's Conley Terminal in South Boston is New England's largest full-service container terminal. Served by CSX, with the Grand Junction line providing the primary active freight connection into the Boston-area industrial waterfront. A used press sold overseas or bought in from another plant is crated unit by unit and sequenced so the sections reach the floor in the order they go back down.
Every printing press moving job in Boston, MA 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 Boston jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Boston crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Boston? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Boston, MA and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Printing Press Moving throughout Boston and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Cambridge | Middlesex County | 3 mi |
| Quincy | Norfolk County | 8 mi |
| Worcester | Worcester County | 39 mi |
| Lowell | Middlesex County | 23 mi |
| Framingham | Middlesex County | 19 mi |
| Braintree | Norfolk County | 11 mi |
| Woburn | Middlesex County | 10 mi |
| Everett | Middlesex County | 4 mi |
| Chelsea | Suffolk County | 3 mi |
| Waltham | Middlesex County | 9 mi |
| Providence, RI | Providence County | 41 mi |
| Manchester, NH | Hillsborough County | 48 mi |
| Dorchester | Suffolk County | 4 mi |
| Brockton | Plymouth County | 19 mi |
| Fall River | Bristol County | 46 mi |
| Lynn | Essex County | 9 mi |
| Newton | Middlesex County | 8 mi |
| Nashua, NH | Hillsborough County | 35 mi |
| Warwick, RI | Kent County | 49 mi |
| Cranston, RI | Providence County | 44 mi |
| Somerville | Middlesex County | 3 mi |
| Lawrence | Essex County | 25 mi |
| Pawtucket, RI | Providence County | 37 mi |
| Framingham Center | Middlesex County | 20 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Boston services or get a quote.
Most Boston 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 Boston crew.
Boston industrial rigging →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across Boston as one accountable job.
Boston 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 Boston.
Boston CNC machine moving →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Boston plants.
factory relocation in Boston →In Boston 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 Boston.
The same Boston crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, crane and rigging services, and machinery loading and unloading.
Specialty rigging in Boston: 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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