Feasibility
Studies
Evaluate viability, define scope, and establish realistic budgets before committing to design or construction.
Precision Machinery Alignment
In converting, printing, and plastics environments, equipment alignment isn't just a mechanical requirement; it's a product quality requirement. Misalignment in a converting line or printing press affects output consistency, increases waste, and accelerates wear on precision components. CR Meyer's alignment crews perform laser shaft alignment, conventional alignment, and alignment verification during installations, relocations, and maintenance windows, with the understanding that precision in these environments has a direct connection to what comes off the line.
Equipment Installation and Relocation
Converting and packaging facilities regularly install new production lines, relocate existing equipment, and upgrade machinery to meet changing production demands. CR Meyer's millwright and rigging crews handle heavy equipment installation and relocation in active manufacturing environments — coordinating the mechanical, structural, and precision alignment scopes that line installation requires under one self-performing project team.
Process and Utility Piping
Production equipment in converting, plastics, and packaging facilities depends on process and utility piping systems — steam, compressed air, cooling water, and process lines that support equipment operation. CR Meyer self-performs piping installation and modifications, coordinated with our in-house pipe fabrication facility in Kaukauna, Wisconsin, for prefabricated components that support tight installation schedules.
Electrical Installation
Equipment installations and line upgrades require electrical connections coordinated with mechanical installation — power distribution, equipment connections, and controls-related wiring that has to follow the mechanical scope in the right sequence. CR Meyer self-performs electrical scopes under the same project leadership managing mechanical work, eliminating the coordination gaps that delay commissioning in active production environments.
Structural Ironwork and Facility Modifications
New production lines and equipment upgrades frequently require structural steel: equipment support structures, mezzanines, access platforms, and modifications to existing facility infrastructure. CR Meyer's ironworkers self-perform structural scopes coordinated with the mechanical installation happening alongside them.
Concrete Foundations and Equipment Pads
Heavy converting and plastics equipment requires properly designed and placed foundations. CR Meyer's concrete crews place equipment foundations and pads coordinated directly with mechanical installation sequences, so foundations are ready when equipment arrives, not a delay that holds up the rest of the project.
Ongoing Maintenance
Production equipment in converting and packaging environments wears under continuous use and requires consistent maintenance support. CR Meyer provides planned and emergency maintenance services by crews who know the facility and its equipment, reducing response time and minimizing the disruption that maintenance work creates in a running production environment.
PRECISION ALIGNMENT AND PRODUCTION QUALITY
How Does Precision Machinery Alignment Affect Production Quality?
In converting, printing, and plastics environments, the connection between equipment alignment and product quality is direct and measurable. A converting line with misaligned rollers produces inconsistent output. A printing press with alignment deviation creates registration problems. An extruder with drive system misalignment generates vibration that affects product consistency and accelerates component wear.
CR Meyer's alignment crews understand that connection. When precision alignment is part of an installation or maintenance scope in a converting or plastics facility, it is treated as a quality-critical activity — not a final step that gets rushed at the end of a project.
What CR Meyer's alignment work includes in these environments:
- Laser alignment for drive systems, rollers, and rotating equipment
- Alignment verification during new equipment installation and line commissioning
- Corrective alignment during maintenance windows to address wear-related deviation
- Startup support to confirm alignment under operating conditions before full production resumes
THE SELF-PERFORMED ADVANTAGE
Why Do Converting & Plastics Manufacturers Choose a Self-Performing Contractor?
The most common failure point in a converting or packaging line installation isn't the mechanical work or the electrical work — it's the handoff between them.
When millwrighting, electrical, and precision alignment are performed by separate contractors, each trade works from its own understanding of what the previous one did. Scope changes don't travel. Assumptions accumulate. And the result shows up at commissioning, when the line doesn't run to spec and everyone has someone else to point at.
CR Meyer's self-perform model eliminates that handoff entirely.
- Millwrighting, electrical, precision alignment, structural, and piping scopes are all performed by CR Meyer's own crews under one project leadership team — so scope changes made in the field by one trade are known immediately by every trade that follows
- Sequencing decisions are made inside the project team, in real time — not delayed by communication across separate contractor relationships while your commissioning window is running
- One safety culture governs every crew on site, consistent across every scope and every day of the project — no subcontractor arriving with different training standards in a precision production environment
- A single accountable team is responsible for every scope, every installation decision, and every outcome at commissioning — not a general contractor who managed the project but didn't control the work
And because every trade coordinates internally, that execution happens without disrupting the production lines running alongside yours.
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