Gas utilities across North America are seeking innovative tools that improve efficiency, ensure safety, and keep operations on schedule. The Kobus KPP400 Pipe Puller offers a way to raise the benchmarks in each of these areas. Designed to streamline service line...
What is Pipe Pulling? The Trenchless Solution for a Growing Infrastructure Challenge
Infrastructure maintenance and upgrades are at the core of every community’s resilience and growth. However, aging pipes, urban expansion, and increasing regulations have contractors, municipalities, and utilities seeking out ways to modernize water and gas lines...
Debunking Common Misconceptions About Trenchless Pipe Pulling
When it comes to underground utility work, the race to create new and more efficient pipe replacement methods has created some uncertainty and confusion about the technology available in the industry. Despite its growing adoption, many contractors, municipalities and...
The KPP400 Kobus Pipe Puller: Engineered to Revolutionize Pipe Replacement
Aging utility infrastructures around the globe are facing a growing challenge. Millions of water and gas lines require replacement to mitigate serious risks to the public they serve. The most pressing need is the 7 to 10 million, or more, lead water lines that could...
Lead Pipe Replacement: Why Municipalities Should Invest in Trenchless Solutions
Often installed decades ago, aging utility infrastructure poses significant risks to communities. The failure of service lines and contamination from hazardous material, particularly to children most vulnerable to the harmful effects of lead exposure, are some of the...
The Long-Term Benefits of Investing in a Pipe Puller for Contractors
For contractors, acquiring new equipment isn’t about keeping up with the latest trends. It’s about increasing efficiency and safety while improving profitability. In recent years, advances in trenchless pipe replacement have been among the most beneficial to the...
5 Reasons Pipe Pulling is a Better Alternative to Traditional Trenching
Utility companies, municipalities, and contractors alike face a growing challenge in replacing underground service pipes. As existing infrastructure ages, costly repairs become more frequent. Federal, state, and local initiatives to replace hazardous lead water pipes...
Trenchless Technology Advances the Goal of Eliminating Lead Pipe Risks by 2034
Discover how trenchless technology supports the EPA’s 2034 lead pipe removal goal, offering safe, cost-effective solutions for cities. Partner with Kobus.
New KPP400 Transportation Cradle
The KPP400 transportation and storage cradle is ideal for transporting and storing the Kobus Pipe Puller safely and all-in-one. In use, the Puller is mounted on a 2.5 – 3 tonne excavator, and has to be transported to and from site. When not in use, the Puller needs...
What People Get Wrong About Trenchless Technology
Utility contractors are now utilising and using trenchless technology as their main method of installation for services such as water or gas utility pipelines. This method boasts a vast number of benefits that other excavation techniques do not have. Trenchless...