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Environmental Sustainability in Heavy Machinery Moving

In an era where environmental sustainability is paramount, companies industry wide are seeking innovative solutions to reduce their carbon footprint. Heavy machinery moving, an essential aspect of various industries, often comes with significant environmental impacts.
James Merritt – March 4, 2024
Sustainable Heavy Machinery Transportation

Merritts Invest In New 58Te Capacity Pick and Carry Crane

Having recently invested in a new £120k Nooteboom trailer, and a new £260k Versa-Lift 40/60, heavy machinery transport specialists, Merritts have just taken delivery of a new fully electric £400k JMG MC 580 cabin cruiser crane. The investment will assist all heavy machinery moving, installation and factory relocation projects.
Richard Merritt – March 3, 2021
Merritts cabin cruiser crane

Month in Focus – December

Merritts work across multiple sectors, regularly carrying out over 100 heavy machinery removal, installation, and transportation projects per month. We provide the world’s leading machinery manufacturers with specialist machinery moving, lifting, installation and storage services.
D. Hardy – January 29, 2021
Heavy Machinery Movers | Merritts Top Tips

Key Factors to Consider When Appointing A Heavy Machinery Moving Company

Whether you have great experience in overseeing heavy machinery moving projects, or you are embarking on your first production line change requiring internal heavy machinery moves, we hope you learn something new from this article.
Richard Merritt – January 7, 2021
Health and Safety Guide to Moving Heavy Machinery | Merritts

COVID-19 Update

Please rest assured that Merritts are following all Government guidelines to ensure we can work safely during this national lockdown which was announced by the Government on 4th January 2021. The safety of our staff and customers is of paramount importance and we are continuing to implement a number of measures in order to continue to safely carry out work throughout these difficult times.
James Merritt – January 5, 2021
COVID-19 Update | Merritts

Brexit and the Benefits Of Using Merritts Bonded Warehousing When Importing Heavy Machinery Into the UK

In just under a month the UK will have exited from the EU, regardless of whether there a is no-deal Brexit or a negotiated exit. Once the UK has left the European Union all imports and exports will be subject to duty and this will have an immense impact. Particularly for businesses that are importing or exporting heavy machinery, as these transactions usually represent a significant figure which means the duty payable will also be quite sizeable.
James Merritt – December 9, 2020
Bonded Warehousing Services | Merritts Storage Solutions

Service Spotlight: Industrial Storage

The current COVID situation has obviously created a lot of uncertainty for businesses in general. From our perspective, we have seen a recent increase in the requirement for industrial storage services and have been assisting numerous companies who have encountered project complications due to delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, providing them with secure storage solutions to alleviate the pressures placed upon them.
D. Hardy – November 30, 2020
Industrial storage

Month in Focus – September

Merritts work across multiple sectors, regularly carrying out over 100 heavy machinery removal, installation, and transportation projects per month. We provide the world’s leading machinery manufacturers with specialist machinery moving, lifting, installation and storage services.
D. Hardy – November 10, 2020
Merritts Heavy Machinery Movers

Coming soon – Merritts invest in electric pick and carry cabin cranes

As part of our commitment to provide our customers with the highest standard of service within the heavy machinery moving industry, we are delighted to announce that we have ordered two new electric pick and carry cabin cranes from JMG Cranes, based in Bergamo, Italy.
Alan Cundy – November 3, 2020
Merritts Heavy Machinery Moving | JMG Cranes

How will reshoring help UK Manufacturers?

Discussions about reshoring gained more publicity in 2020 as a result of the uncertainty caused by Brexit and the supply shortages that are being experienced due to the coronavirus pandemic.
James Merritt – October 13, 2020
What is reshoring

Asset Relocation Programmes – Heavy Machine Moves

How we are helping manufacturing companies relocate heavy machinery assets to meet social distancing guidelines and improve workflow.
Lincoln Marks – October 1, 2020
Asset Relocation Programme