Lane Enterprises mobile manufacturing plant is now available to handle jobs throughout North America.
Literally a full-scale mill, the machine can produce corrugated metal pipe in diameters up to 6.4 metres and lengths that can be longer than 12 metres.
“We’ve transformed what was once considered both highly improbable and impractical by bringing the manufacturing plant directly to the jobsite, enabling contractors and design engineers to use enormously large-diameter corrugated metal pipe that would otherwise be too big to ship,” said Patrick X. Collings, President and CEO of Lane Enterprises.
The mill is now available throughout North America, following the integration of Pacific Corrugated Pipe into Lane Enterprises, which added resources such as the mobile mill with dedicated technicians.
“Usually, these corrugated metal pipe structures when made in a plant are limited to 12 feet in diameter because they cannot be shipped,” Collings continued.
“Our mobile mill can produce pipe in diameters of up to 21 feet, and virtually unlimited length, which would be impossible to load on the back of a truck to transport.”
The mobile mill typically makes pipe for stormwater drainage systems, caissons that serve as the base for windfarm turbines and electrical transmission towers, and roadway bridge support columns.
“We’ve even brought the mill to an industrial manufacturing site in Arizona to build 21-foot-wide quenching tanks for a company that makes large industrial parts,” said Joe Delgado, Lane’s Mobile Mill Operations Manager.
The mobile mill can make 45-cm to 6.4 metre diameter pipe that is custom tailored for a specific job with thicknesses from 16 to 8-gauge, steel or aluminum alloy and corrugations ranging up to 7 x 2 along with various lengths as needed. A number of protective coatings are also available.
While the ability to make large pipe on the jobsite is a key function of the mill, it also has the ability to be moved within a site.
“It really is quite amazing,” Delgado said.
“We are the only company in the nation that has been able to make the largest diameter CSP at 12 feet in diameter using 8 gage galvanized steel with 7 x 2 corrugations and was 19 feet long. I can’t wait for the next challenge.”
