America's Sewer Structures Are Falling Apart
Every city runs on structures nobody sees: manholes, lift stations, wet wells. Sewer gas eats the concrete, and years of corrosion end in infiltration and lost structural integrity. Cities have spent decades paying for temporary fixes to a permanent problem.
Do It Right Once
Temporary fixes like spray-ons and coatings protect a surface for a short time. Real rehabilitation requires the Triplex Liner: the structure gets its strength and its corrosion protection back in one operation.
That is why cities that have tried both specify the liner. It turns a maintenance cycle into a finished repair.
The Triplex Liner System Is the Permanent Fix
The Triplex Liner is not a coating. It is a new structural wall of fiberglass and a continuous corrosion barrier, cured in place inside the existing structure. The structure gets its strength back and keeps it.
The system is patented, proven in service, and designed and tested to last up to 100 years in sewer conditions.
It is installed in cities across the United States, Canada and Australia.
How It’s Done
Every liner is measured against the structure it will repair and custom built at our factory. On site, the work moves fast: the structure is prepped, the liner is cured in place, and the structure returns to service. For a typical manhole, installation is completed in a single day.
Engineers can request the full specification package. The disruption a city fears from rehabilitation is the part we engineered out.
Measured and Built
Every liner starts at our factory in Northwest Florida, custom built to the measurements of the structure it will repair, in two pieces: the shaft and the bottom disc.
Prepped and Installed
On site, the structure is cleaned back to sound wall. The crew saturates the liner, lowers it in, presses it into full contact with the structure, and cures it in place with steam and air.
Back in Service
The inlets and outlets are cut and reopened, and the structure returns to service with a new structural wall inside the old one. Installation for a typical manhole is completed the same day.
Built for the Toughest Jobs
Eighty-three feet down, in freezing temperatures, in the middle of Edmonton, Alberta. Some structures are critical to a city's health and nearly impossible to take offline: deep, downtown, on streets that cannot close. That is the work this system was built for. The liner goes in through the opening that is already there, one piece, built for that structure, and the street is back the same day.
Working in Michigan
Public works departments and engineering firms across Michigan specify structural lining for the sewer structures they cannot afford to lose. Send us a project and we will take it from evaluation through specification to an installed liner.
Three Ways In
What the liner costs a city over its life, and what the warranty covers.
Go →Writing a spec?EngineersRequest the specification package: product data, section details and specification language.
Go →Install for a living?ContractorsThe Triplex system is licensed by territory to qualified contractors.
Go →Questions We Get in Michigan
Is this a coating?
No. It is a structural fiberglass liner fabricated for one structure and cured in place inside it.
What kinds of structures can be lined?
Manholes, lift stations, wet wells, pump stations and culverts, whatever their size or shape.
What does this do to our operations?
Less than most rehabilitation work. A typical manhole is out of service for a single shift and back in service the same day.
We have active infiltration. Is that a problem?
No. Being able to line a structure that is still taking water is one of the reasons the system was developed.
How long does it last?
The liner is designed and tested to last up to 100 years in sewer conditions. Standard manholes carry a twenty-year non-prorated materials warranty, and wet wells, pump stations and culverts carry five years.
Can we write this into a specification?
Yes. We issue a specification package to the engineer of record on request, with product data, section details and guide specification language.