Composite restoration system allows utilities to restore underground assets in days—without excavation, outages, or replacement.
Osmose Utilities Services, Inc., the leading provider of utility infrastructure assessment, restoration, and life extension solutions, announced the launch of an advanced composite based restoration system designed to significantly extend the service life of aging underground utility structures, including vaults and manholes.
Osmose serves as the exclusive certified installer and program delivery partner for the technology developed by its partner, CFI Composites, LLC. Osmose will provide turnkey execution including assessment, engineering integration, installation, and quality assurance across the United States and Canada (excluding California).
Osmose offers the restoration system to electric utilities, providing a fast, non-invasive alternative to excavation and full structure replacement. The system allows utilities to rehabilitate deteriorated underground assets in a matter of days while minimizing customer disruption and maintaining service continuity.
Built on Osmose’s decades of experience in underground condition assessment, field execution, and long-term life extension strategies for transmission and distribution electric utility infrastructure, the solution delivers decades of structural durability with dramatically reduced construction risk and cost. In many cases, electrical equipment can remain energized throughout installation, helping utilities avoid outages and operational complexity.
“This launch further strengthens Osmose’s portfolio of underground life extension solutions and reinforces the company’s commitment to improving the safety, reliability, and sustainability of electric infrastructure,” said Steve Lenich, Senior Vice President, Underground Services at Osmose. “As underground infrastructure continues to age, utilities need solutions that reduce risk and cost, allowing them to get maximum value out of their assets. The system allows utilities to strengthen underground assets, extend service life by decades, and defer costly replacements—all while keeping customers served.”
The composite restoration method is typically installed in two to five days and eliminates the need for excavation, replacement, or extensive surface restoration. Designed specifically for underground utility environments, the system offers a range of safety and performance benefits, including:
The composite restoration technology is supplied by CFI Composites, LLC, a specialized materials and technology partner, whose system has been independently validated for long-term structural performance. Osmose manages all aspects of deployment and customer engagement for electric utilities.
About Osmose Utilities Services, Inc.
Founded in 1934, Osmose is a market-leading provider of utility infrastructure solutions that help electric utilities and telecommunications companies extend the life, reliability, and value of transmission and distribution assets. Combining deep engineering expertise, field services, advanced data, and innovative technologies, Osmose enables safer, smarter, and more cost-effective infrastructure decisions at scale.
Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, the company employs more than 7,000 people across the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Europe, India, Australia, and New Zealand. Osmose is a portfolio company of EQT Infrastructure.