Pipp Mobile Storage Systems

Pipp Mobile Storage Systems

Pipp Mobile Storage Systems was founded in 1981 as a family-owned company in Walker, Michigan. It designs and manufactures mobile shelving carts, hanger systems, and high-density storage for retail, office, healthcare, and industrial clients. The company remains family-led under Chairman Craig Umans, who joined after a private-equity acquisition in 2005 and later led a string of strategic buys. The company's product lines serve two primary markets: retail and indoor cultivation. For retailers, it offers mobile shelving, garment-handling systems (through its IRSG subsidiary), and transfer carts. For horticulture, its Pipp Horticulture division makes mobile vertical grow racks, greenhouse structures (via GGS), and in-rack airflow systems (via Vertical Air Solutions). The company manufactures in the US and sells factory-direct. Confirmed portfolio installations include large retail chains and multi-state cannabis operations. Pipp has grown through at least five acquisitions since 2007: Denstor Mobile Storage Systems (2007), IRSG (hanger systems, year undisclosed), Greenhaus Industries (2018), Vertical Air Solutions (2020), GGS Structures (2021), and the assets of Grow Glide (2023). The company employs a leadership team of roughly 16 listed executives and managers. It does not publicly disclose revenue or team size beyond leadership. Pipp's structural differentiator is its dual-market strategy: it applies the same mobile-racking engineering to both retail inventory management and vertical cannabis farming. This hybrid model — a legacy manufacturing business and a fast-growing horticulture arm — allows cross-pollination of manufacturing techniques and sales channels while maintaining a single factory-direct sales approach.