ABOUT OUR COMPANY
Reliable Heavy Machinery Clean-up Services
Industrial machine and equipment removal isn’t a simple haul-away job. Facilities often contain presses, conveyors, generators, tanks, and production lines that are bolted down, wired in, and connected to hydraulic or air systems. If you’re upgrading, relocating, or shutting down, our team has the experience and planning needed to make things go smoothly.
We handle every step of industrial machine and equipment removal properly, isolating power, draining fluids, disconnecting lines, using forklifts, and cutting equipment when needed. From tight factory layouts to full plant clear-outs, we dismantle and remove machinery safely so your space is cleared.
- WSIB-registered
- 20+ years of heavy machinery removal experience
- Our team is fully licensed and insured
How Industrial Machine and Equipment Removal Runs
- Walk the plant. We map the route out before anything else: door widths, ceiling height, floor loading, turns and where a truck can back in. That route decides whether a machine leaves whole or in pieces.
- Get the isolation done. Power, compressed air, steam, hydraulics, process lines and any control systems have to be locked out and isolated by the right trades before disconnection starts.
- Check for residuals. Oils, coolants, hydraulic fluid and process chemicals inside a machine have to be drained and handled properly, not tipped.
- Disconnect and detach. Anchors, grouting, base plates and services are released, and the machine is separated from its foundation.
- Rig and move. Skates, gantries, forklifts or a crane depending on the weight and the route. Where a machine cannot leave whole, it is cut down in planned sections.
- Clear the footprint. Bases, pits, plinths and redundant services are removed, and the floor is left clean and ready for whatever goes in next.
What to Settle Before a Plant Clear-Out
Machinery removal lives or dies on the planning. Before a date is booked:
- Weight and dimensions of every item, and whether it can leave whole
- The route out, including floor loading and any structure that has to come out to make room
- Whether equipment is being scrapped, resold or relocated, which changes how carefully it is handled
- Residual fluids and process chemicals, and who is handling their disposal
- Whether the plant keeps running around the work, which usually means nights or a shutdown window
- Concrete bases, pits and plinths that stay behind once the machine has gone
More Demolition Services
ALMAR handles the whole range across Toronto, the GTA and Southern Ontario. A few that often go with this one:
- Foundation tear down
- Concrete basement removal
- Retaining wall removal
- Parking lot and paving demolition
See the full list on our demolition services page, or check the areas we serve.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can you remove equipment while the plant is still running?
Often yes, with the work zone isolated and hoarded off and the noisy or disruptive stages scheduled for a shutdown window, a night or a weekend. It needs planning with your maintenance team so lockout and access line up.
What happens to the machines?
That is your call and it changes the method. Scrap is cut down and the metal goes for recycling. Equipment being resold or relocated is disconnected, rigged and moved with a lot more care, which takes longer and costs more. Tell us which at quote stage.
Do you take out the concrete bases too?
Yes, if you want the footprint clear. Machine plinths, pits and anchor blocks are broken out, the redundant services are removed and the floor is made good enough for the next installation.
Who handles the oils and coolants?
They have to be drained and disposed of through the proper stream, and that is agreed before the work starts. It is not something to discover on the day, so bring it up early and it stays a line item rather than a delay.
Industrial Machine and Equipment Removal in Southern Ontario