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We Move, Set, and Start Heavy Equipment
Millwrights, riggers, and ironworkers for plant construction, machinery moving, and shutdown work across Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan.
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Specialists in heavy industrial work
Four crews, one general foreman, and equipment we own. We self-perform the rigging, the millwright work, and the steel, so the schedule does not depend on somebody else showing up.
Millwright
Set and Align
Precision setting, leveling, and laser alignment of presses, pumps, gearboxes, and production lines, with grouting and anchoring to the equipment maker's tolerance.
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Moved Safely
Machinery moving and heavy rigging up to 300 tons, including engineered lift plans, gantries, slide systems, and plant-to-plant relocations.
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Material Handling
Belt, bucket, screw, and drag conveyor systems installed, replaced, and retrofitted, from receiving pits to the top of the silo.
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Steel and Platforms
Mezzanines, pipe racks, equipment platforms, and access steel, fabricated in our Portage shop and erected by our own ironworkers.
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Explore Recent Work
Most of our work happens inside somebody else's running plant, on a window that cannot move. These are three that show the range.
How we work
Our Core Values
These are the four things our customers tell us they buy from us, in the order they say them.
Safety First
A 0.71 EMR and a site-specific plan before the first truck rolls. Our people go home the way they came in.
Skilled Craft
Union millwrights, ironworkers, and riggers. The average foreman here has nineteen years in the trade.
Schedule Certainty
We build the outage schedule backwards from your restart and staff it to hit that date, not to fill a crew.
Straight Answers
If a lift is not safe or a date is not real, you hear it from us during the estimate, not the week of.
Testimonials
What our customers say
They had the elevator out and the new one plumb before we finished draining the silo. I have used four contractors on that line and Halvorsen is the only one who gave me a schedule they actually hit.
The press move was the biggest thing we have ever done here and it was uneventful, which is exactly what you want. Their lift plan was more thorough than our insurer asked for.
From the field
Latest News
Notes from the field on outage planning, rigging, and keeping a capital project on its date.
OutagesPlanning
Planning a Shutdown That Actually Restarts On Time
The schedule is not the problem. What sinks most outages is the three days of scope that nobody wrote down, and the long-lead part that shipped to the wrong dock.
RiggingSafety
What Goes Into an Engineered Lift Plan
Load charts, ground bearing pressure, rigging angles, and a named lift director. Here is what your insurer and your safety group should both be looking for.
Millwright
Grouting and Alignment: Where Machine Life Is Won
A pump that fails every fourteen months is usually telling you about its baseplate. Soft foot and a hollow grout pour cost more than the install ever did.
Trusted partners
Tell us what needs to move
Send the equipment list, the building, and your window. We will walk it and come back with a real number and a real date.
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