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Rebuilding America’s Infrastructure

The Permanent Fix for Deteriorating Sewer Structures

The Triplex Liner System is a permanent solution for deteriorating sewer structures: a structural fiberglass liner, custom manufactured to fit a specific structure and cured in place inside it. We have manufactured it in Northwest Florida for more than thirty years.

A Triplex Liner hanging vertically from a crane above a live highway

America's Sewer Structures Are Wearing Out

Every city runs on structures nobody sees: manholes, lift stations, wet wells. Sewer gas eats their concrete year after year, and that corrosion is what finally lets groundwater push through, as infiltration and as lost structural integrity. Cities have spent decades paying for temporary fixes to a permanent problem.

Groundwater infiltration running down the corroded wall of a sewer manhole
Infiltration, after years of corrosion.

The Triplex Liner System Is the Permanent Fix

We invented a different answer: not a coating sprayed on a failing wall, but a new structural wall cured in place inside the old one.

Two layers of structural fiberglass around a continuous corrosion barrier, fabricated for the exact structure it repairs. Patented, proven, 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, and we welcome work beyond them.

The inside of a finished lift station after Triplex Liner installation
A complete lift station. The liner panels form a monolithic structure, cured in place and custom fit.

Do It Right Once

A coating protects a surface until the surface fails again. A structural liner replaces what the structure lost, its strength and its corrosion protection, in one operation.

That is why cities that have tried both specify the liner. It turns a maintenance cycle into a finished repair.

A corroded metal culvert with the invert gone, open to daylight
Corrosion and rust, years of it, in a culvert.
The same culvert after Triplex Liner installation, looking through
Fully rehabilitated, and still in service today nearly twenty years later.

How It’s Done

The short version of the installation manual: the liner is measured and custom built at the factory, the structure is prepped and the liner installed, and the structure goes back into service. For a typical manhole, the same day.

Engineers can request the full specification package. The disruption a city fears from rehabilitation is the part we engineered out.

Measured and Built
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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
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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
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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. For a typical manhole, the same day.

Fiberglass being cut to measure at the factory
The liner laid out and inspected before installation
A crew saturating a liner on site
Steam and air curing the liner in place

Built for the Hard Ones

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, sized to the structure, and the street is back the same day.

A Triplex Liner suspended from a crane between downtown buildings
Set from the street, through the opening that is already there.

The Oldest Ones Are the Best Argument

We do not have to describe how the liner ages. It has been in the ground long enough to show you.

Looking through a lined culvert, seventeen years after installation

Seventeen Years

There is a lined culvert still in service seventeen years later, still one continuous surface with no seams and nothing to feather back.

Looking down into a lined manhole opened at twenty-seven years old

Twenty-Seven Years

There is a lined manhole opened at twenty-seven years old, opened up and photographed with its bench and invert intact.

An aerial view of the Triplex Liner factory in Northwest Florida

More Than Thirty

The liner was invented by Ron McNeil in 1991, and we have manufactured it in Northwest Florida for more than thirty years.

Watch It Work

Ninety seconds of Triplex Liner installations.

Fifty States, One System

Every state has a page covering how the Triplex Liner is specified and installed there.

Open the state directory →

“It is our duty and responsibility as human beings to preserve and protect the environment that we live in.”

Ronald A. McNeil, Inventor

Get Involved

Whether you manage a city's structures, write specifications, or install for a living, it starts with a conversation. Tell us what you are working with, and we will tell you honestly whether the Triplex Liner is the right fix and what the next step looks like.

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