A five-station tandem press line dismantled, shipped across two seas and recommissioned to original alignment tolerance.
- Client
- Automotive Tier-1 Manufacturer
- Location
- Haryana, India → Southeast Asia
- Duration
- 5 months
- Material handled
- 2,150 t
Complete relocation of a five-station tandem press line including a 1,600-tonne lead press, transfer automation, die storage and control systems — dismantled, preserved, export-packed, shipped and reassembled at a new facility with commissioning support.
Scope of works
- Full line survey and match-marking
- Press dismantling to reassembly tolerance
- Transfer automation and control system removal
- VCI preservation and ISPM-15 export crating
- Multimodal freight and customs coordination
- Foundation preparation, reassembly and alignment
The lead press bed weighed 320 tonnes as a single indivisible component, exceeding the floor loading of the origin facility's only viable extraction route.
The line's control system had been modified extensively over fifteen years with limited documentation, creating a real risk that reassembly would recover mechanical alignment but not functional operation.
The destination foundation was not designed when the project started, and the client's production ramp date could not move.
A load-spreading skid route was engineered across the origin floor, distributing the 320 t bed across a temporary steel raft verified against the actual slab construction confirmed by core sampling. The bed was skidded to a hardstand and lifted from there.
Before any disconnection, the control system was surveyed and documented in full — every field connection photographed, labelled and mapped to a reconstructed schematic. That record proved to be the single highest-value deliverable of the project.
Destination foundation design was brought into our scope and completed in parallel with dismantling, with construction running during sea transit. The line went straight from quay to position with no interim storage.
Reassembly was executed to original alignment tolerance with laser survey verification at each station, followed by staged functional testing through to first production part.
2,150 t
Components relocated
Zero
Transit damage
Original OEM tolerance
Alignment achieved
None
Interim storage required
Met
Production ramp date
Equipment mobilised against the engineered method for this programme. Where the correct machine was not in our own fleet, it was brought in rather than substituted.
- Hydraulic skidding system
- Climbing jacks and load-spreading rafts
- 400 t mobile crane
- SPMT transport modules
- Laser alignment survey equipment
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