Baker Handles Pharma Rigging Project with TLC

R. Baker & Son was challenged with a unique rigging project for a pharmaceutical client in northern New Jersey. The scope of work called for removal of numerous pieces of process equipment including milling machines, conical dryers, reactors, granulators, and HVAC equipment.  The large size and weight of the machinery, installed when the building was erected, made the rigging project particularly challenging.  

R. Baker crews used plywood and dunnage to spread the heavy equipment load and protect grass, an irrigation system, and various underground utilities.  Great care was taken to ensure that interior epoxy and poured floors were not damaged during the project as well. Several translucent fiberglass-and-aluminum structural panels were carefully removed to allow building access and set aside for reinstallation.  A gantry as well as slings and chain hoists were used to rig equipment onto skates, and a ramp was constructed to elevate the equipment over a 4” perimeter curb at the egress point.  

A Manitou telehandler forklift was used to raise and lower the equipment, rigging hardware, and materials.  Process and HVAC equipment was decommissioned and disconnected mechanically, electrically, and pneumatically.  Once the equipment was removed, all piping, electrical and controls were safed-off and readied for incoming equipment to be installed. The old process equipment was then rigged from the building, documented, skidded, packaged with dessicant bags and sealed, and shipped to its final destination, and the exterior structural panels were carefully and properly reinstalled. 

About R. Baker & Son All Industrial Services

R. Baker & Son All Industrial Services, a  Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Business (SDVOB)  in business since 1935, is a premier specialized contractor operating in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico, with over one hundred employees and an exemplary safety record (we have been directly involved in four sites that received VPP OSHA Safety Awards). R. Baker & Son is financially strong, with bonding capabilities over $10 million. Capabilities include industrial and commercial demolition, rigging, machinery- and plant-moving, dismantling, decommissioning, plant and equipment relocation, interior demolition, selective demolition, warehousing, wrecking and razing, millwright, plant reconfigurations, heavy rigging, salvage, environmental services, remediation, decontamination, abatement, and investment and asset recovery.

R. Baker & Son - All Industrial Services
190 Boundary Road
Marlboro, NJ 07746
732-222-3553