When a machine is too heavy, too tall, or too tight to move safely, Akron calls a rigger. Badass Logistics plans and executes precision lifts, machine setting, and heavy moves across the Akron metro — from a few hundred pounds to 200,000 lbs and beyond, rigged, moved, and set by one accountable crew.
Quick answer: Badass Logistics provides industrial rigging in Akron, OH and the surrounding metro. We handle engineered lifts, machine setting, and heavy moves from a few hundred pounds to 200,000 lbs and beyond, set and leveled to spec. Our crews work across Akron and nearby Ohio metros, and moves between facilities run as project freight under the same plan — usually quoted the same day. Call (307) 284-1332.
Akron's polymers & rubber manufacturing base runs on machines that can't be muscled onto a truck — presses, machining centers, transformers, and production lines that have to come off the floor, through the door, and onto a trailer without a scratch. That's rigging: engineered lifts, air skates and gantries, and a crew that measures every doorway before anything moves.
Badass Logistics rigs it like an engineering problem and runs it like a road crew across Akron. We plan the pick, protect the floors, and set the load to spec — and when the load has to leave the building, the same team runs the move and the project freight, so it gets rigged out, delivered, and reset without a hand-off.
Rigging in Akron, OH is mostly a building problem, and in this metro the buildings are in the I-76/I-77 polymer manufacturing corridor through Summit County and the former rubber-industry district near downtown Akron. They are a mix of older multi-storey rubber-plant buildings near downtown with tight floor loading and newer single-storey polymer processing plants along the I-76/I-77 corridor with clear-span bays — column spacing, door height and floor rating decide the gear long before the weight does. The lifts themselves follow the metro's polymer, plastics and rubber product manufacturing, chemical and coatings production, fabricated metal and machinery shops, and tire and rubber R&D and pilot-scale production.
Plenty of Akron, OH work — polymers & rubber manufacturing — moves across state lines before it lands. We run the same industrial rigging crews through these OH and regional markets:
Akron's industrial base — polymers & rubber manufacturing — runs on equipment that doesn't move like freight. Long interconnected lines have to come apart and go back together in the right order and alignment. Typical rigging jobs for Akron customers include:
A Akron lift list usually runs to extruders and compounding lines, injection and blow molding machines, mixing and calendering equipment, and material-handling conveyors, and each one changes the rig: where it can be picked, what it cannot be set down on, and how much of it has to come apart to clear a doorway.
Setting and leveling machinery onto pads and foundations to spec across the Akron metro.
Crane, gantry, and jack-and-slide lifts up to 200,000 lbs and beyond across the Akron metro.
Presses, generators, transformers, and production-line machinery across the Akron metro.
Skating machines through doorways, up mezzanines, and out of packed floors across the Akron metro.
Plenty of Akron jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-70, I-71, I-75 and I-90, 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.
Not every Akron rig finishes on the floor it started on. Served by Norfolk Southern, with the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway, a regional carrier descended from the former Akron, Canton and Youngstown Railroad, also serving local industry. Add I-70, I-71, I-75 and I-90 for the road legs and a machine rigged out of a Akron plant can leave on a trailer or in a rail car — the rigging plan is built backwards from whichever it is.
Every industrial rigging job in Akron, OH 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 Akron jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Akron crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Akron? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Akron, OH and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Industrial Rigging throughout Akron and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Cuyahoga Falls | Summit County | 4 mi |
| Barberton | Summit County | 7 mi |
| Stow | Summit County | 7 mi |
| Green | Summit County | 10 mi |
| Tallmadge | Summit County | 4 mi |
| Fairlawn | Summit County | 6 mi |
| Wadsworth | Medina County | 12 mi |
| Kent | Portage County | 10 mi |
| Norton | Summit County | 7 mi |
| Cleveland | Cuyahoga County | 30 mi |
| Parma | Cuyahoga County | 25 mi |
| Canton | Stark County | 21 mi |
| Youngstown | Mahoning County | 45 mi |
| Lorain | Lorain County | 43 mi |
| Elyria | Lorain County | 37 mi |
| Lakewood | Cuyahoga County | 31 mi |
| Euclid | Cuyahoga County | 35 mi |
| Mentor | Lake County | 42 mi |
| Cleveland Heights | Cuyahoga County | 30 mi |
| Strongsville | Cuyahoga County | 23 mi |
| Warren | Trumbull County | 38 mi |
| Boardman | Mahoning County | 45 mi |
| Brunswick | Medina County | 20 mi |
| Collinwood | Cuyahoga County | 33 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Akron services, Industrial Rigging across Ohio or get a quote.
We run industrial rigging in metros across Ohio — pick the nearest crew:
Most Akron 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.
Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across Akron as one accountable job.
machinery moving in Akron →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in Akron.
CNC machine movers in Akron →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Akron plants.
Akron plant & factory relocation →In Akron we also run machinery movers, CNC movers, and plant relocation, plus project freight for the jobs we rig — or see every service we offer in Akron.
The same Akron crew also handles millwright services and machinery removal.
Tell us what's moving and where. We'll route the nearest crew and quote it fast.
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