The Lane mobile mill in action.

Produces Corrugated Metal Pipe Too Large to Transport

CAMP HILL, Pa – March 25, 2026 – Lane Enterprises, LLC announced today that its mobile manufacturing plant is now available to handle jobs throughout the country and Canada.  Literally a full-scale mill, the unit can produce corrugated metal pipe in diameters up to 21 feet and lengths that can be 100 feet or longer.

“We’ve transformed what was once considered both highly improbable and impractical by bringing the manufacturing plant directly to the jobsite,” stated Patrick X. Collings, president and CEO of Lane Enterprises Holdings, Inc. “enabling contractors and design engineers to use enormously large-diameter corrugated metal pipe that would otherwise be too big to ship.” 

The nationwide availability now is due to Lane’s integrating Pacific Corrugated Pipe into the company, which added resources such as the mobile mill with dedicated technicians along with engineers, sales and service professionals. 

“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 for more than 18 years. 

It’s just not only making very large pipe that is a key function of the mill.  It also has the ability to be moved within a site.  Delgado emphasized two key elements of Lane’s attributes: resourceful and determined.

”While working in North Dakota between Bismark and Washburn in the middle of winter, we had to make 18-foot diameter pipe that was 64-feet long for the base of power line transmission towers for a new wind farm,” he explained.  “We had to do a total of 12 sections on both sides of the Missouri River.  After we completed the first side, we had to pack up and move the mill to the other side.  Even though it’s right across the river, which is about a mile wide, it took five hours to go all the way around where you can cross the river and come back with the semi up to the other end.  It was a little crazy as there were cattle and livestock everywhere.

“It was negative 23 degrees.  Michels Corporation, an energy and infrastructure construction company headquartered in Brownsville, Wisconsin, wanted caissons for a North Dakota wind farm project, and chose February because the tundra is frozen so it's not leaking into the foundation system when they're drilling. These caissons keep the walls from collapsing.

“We had a million BTU heater to blow up a big tarp that we made the warmest place at the time.  And then the other challenging part was when we packed up, everything was frozen to the ground by the water we used to cool off the mill when it made the pipe.  We got two big weed burner propane torches to thaw it out enough to where we could lift the trailer from being stuck and hook it to a semi to go to the other side of the river.”

The mobile mill can make 18-inch to 21-feet 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.

“It really is quite amazing,” Delgado said proudly. “We are the only company in the nation that has been able to make the largest diameter CSP at 21 feet in diameter using  8 gage galvanized steel with 7 x 2 corrugations and was 19 feet long.  I can’ wait for the next challenge.”  

Additional information is available at www.lane-enterprises.com 

The Lane mobile mill is often found making pipe even in severe weather such as this project in Idaho.

For one project in Arizona, the Lane mobile mill manufactured 21-foot and 19-foot diameter corrugated metal pipe for quenching tanks.

About Lane 

Lane Enterprises, LLC,100 percent employee owned, is the nation’s largest producer of corrugated steel and corrugated thermoplastic pipe for stormwater management along with a full line of chambers, fittings and accessories for commercial, residential and public works stormwater projects in North America.  Additionally, Lane produces structural steel and aluminum plate for bridge and culvert applications.  Founded in 1934, the company has 23 operating locations servicing the US and Canada, plus a mobile, on-site manufacturing mill, and more than 600 employee-owners. Additional information is available at www.lane-enterprises.com