A press is a line of machines that has to go back together exactly as it came apart. Across the Philadelphia 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 Philadelphia, PA 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 Philadelphia and nearby Pennsylvania 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 Philadelphia, 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 →
Philadelphia's print and packaging base includes Gannett Cherry Hill 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.
Philadelphia, PA runs on port, refinery & manufacturing, 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 Philadelphia run lines that come apart in sections. The equipment we move includes:
The floor is the constraint. Philadelphia's industrial buildings are older multi-storey brick industrial buildings along the Kensington and Port Richmond riverfront with tight column spacing and small freight elevators, alongside newer single-storey buildings at the Navy Yard, 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 Philadelphia Navy Yard redevelopment south of the city, the Tacony-Bridesburg-Kensington riverfront industrial belt, and PhilaPort's Southport terminal district.
Multi-unit sheetfed presses taken down, moved, and set in sequence across the Philadelphia metro.
Web press units, folders, and reel stands rigged and relocated across the Philadelphia metro.
Flexo, converting, and packaging lines moved for packaging plants across the Philadelphia metro.
Cutters, folders, stitchers, and finishing lines moved and set across the Philadelphia metro.
Plenty of Philadelphia jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-76, I-80, I-81 and I-95, 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 Philadelphia rarely travel as one load. PhilaPort on the Delaware River handles containerized, breakbulk and auto import-export cargo. Served by CSX and Norfolk Southern, with a CSX intermodal yard and Norfolk Southern trackage both adjoining PhilaPort's Delaware River terminals. 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 Philadelphia, PA 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 Philadelphia jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Philadelphia crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Philadelphia? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Philadelphia, PA and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Printing Press Moving throughout Philadelphia and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Camden, NJ | Camden County | 3 mi |
| Chester | Delaware County | 13 mi |
| Norristown | Montgomery County | 15 mi |
| King of Prussia | Montgomery County | 16 mi |
| Bensalem | Bucks County | 15 mi |
| Levittown | Bucks County | 23 mi |
| Trenton, NJ | Mercer County | 29 mi |
| Conshohocken | Montgomery County | 11 mi |
| Essington | Delaware County | 9 mi |
| Allentown | Lehigh County | 49 mi |
| Reading | Berks County | 48 mi |
| Bethlehem | Northampton County | 48 mi |
| Wilmington, DE | New Castle County | 25 mi |
| Cherry Hill, NJ | Camden County | 7 mi |
| Vineland, NJ | Cumberland County | 33 mi |
| South Vineland, NJ | Cumberland County | 36 mi |
| Abington | Montgomery County | 12 mi |
| Jackson, NJ | Camden County | 20 mi |
| Havertown | Delaware County | 8 mi |
| North Brunswick, NJ | Middlesex County | 50 mi |
| Sicklerville, NJ | Camden County | 19 mi |
| Mount Laurel, NJ | Burlington County | 15 mi |
| Hillsborough, NJ | Somerset County | 46 mi |
| Sewell, NJ | Gloucester County | 13 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Philadelphia services or get a quote.
Most Philadelphia 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 Philadelphia crew.
rigging contractors in Philadelphia →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across Philadelphia as one accountable job.
industrial machinery movers in Philadelphia →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in Philadelphia.
machine tool movers in Philadelphia →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Philadelphia plants.
Philadelphia plant relocation →In Philadelphia 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 Philadelphia.
The same Philadelphia crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, crane and rigging services, and machinery loading and unloading.
Specialty rigging in Philadelphia: heavy lift rigging, chiller and HVAC rigging, transformer and generator rigging, MRI and medical equipment rigging, and lab equipment moving.
Tell us what's moving and where. We'll route the nearest crew and quote it fast.
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