A 30-year-vacant campus, about to come down
BASF’s five-building Mount Olive campus once housed 3,000 employees. After the company moved its headquarters to East Hanover, the site sat vacant for nearly 30 years — and it’s now being demolished to make way for a 600,000-square-foot distribution center.
Before the buildings came down, the valuable electrical infrastructure inside had to come out. Quantum’s scope spanned four of the buildings: disconnect, rig, remove, and transport the bulk of the equipment — including, most challenging of all, an 11,000-pound substation that had to come out through the roof of the Penthouse.
Purchase, disconnect, rig, recover
Quantum signed a contract with Bromag, the New Jersey demolition company handling the teardown, to purchase and remove the complete electrical infrastructure. Across four buildings, Quantum’s crews disconnected, rigged, and removed the equipment, then transported the bulk of it back to the company’s 200,000-square-foot warehouse.
It’s a model Quantum runs alongside its own demolition and full-scale data center decommissions: working with demo companies and owners to monetize electrical and mechanical assets — buying them, handling the disconnect and removal, then shipping them to its Shippensburg and Philadelphia warehouses to be refurbished and resold. Quantum currently stocks over 80,000 pieces of equipment and has completed well over 4,000 projects.
The most demanding lift of the project: an 11,000-pound substation that Quantum’s crew rigged out through the roof of the Penthouse and transported back to the warehouse.
From contract to warehouse, handled in-house
Quantum purchased the assets and carried the full recovery itself — disconnect, rigging, removal, and transport across four buildings.
Infrastructure recovered, not scrapped
The electrical gear came out of four buildings ahead of the teardown and headed back to Quantum’s warehouses for a second life.
Complete electrical infrastructure recovered
Across four buildings, Quantum purchased and removed the full electrical infrastructure ahead of the campus demolition.
An 11,000 lb substation, rigged out cleanly
The crew’s most demanding lift came out through the roof of the Penthouse and was transported safely back to the warehouse.
Equipment given a second life
Rather than being scrapped, the recovered gear headed to Quantum’s Shippensburg and Philadelphia warehouses to be refurbished and resold.
Inside the BASF recovery
A look at the crews, rigging, and equipment that came out ahead of demolition.
Clearing a facility before demolition?
We’ll buy the electrical and mechanical assets, handle the disconnect and removal, and show you the recovery value against the removal cost — before the building comes down.