TITAN Metal Fabricators

What TITAN Metal Fabricators does

TITAN Metal Fabricators is a privately held, Camarillo, California-based manufacturer of highly corrosion-resistant process equipment, founded in 1998 and operating as part of the broader TITAN Group. The company engineers and fabricates shell-and-tube heat exchangers, columns, pressure vessels, reactors, piping systems, and accessory equipment using reactive and specialty metals — primarily Titanium, Tantalum, Zirconium, Niobium, Hastelloy, Monel, Inconel, high-nickel alloys, and Duplex and Super Duplex stainless steel. Manufacturing scales to 20-foot diameter, 300-foot length, 200-ton weight, 2,500 psig pressure, and 1,200°F temperature, with proprietary explosion cladding used to bond dissimilar metals into single plates that combine a carbon-steel backer with corrosion-resistant cladding. TITAN is qualified to ASME, PED/CE, AD2000, Chinese GB Code, TEMA, API, ASTM, and AWS standards, and serves chemical, petrochemical, oil & gas, LNG, pharmaceutical, steel, alternative energy, metal finishing, and mining/desalination end markets. Every major North American steel mill is stated to specify TITAN tantalum heat exchangers for pickling lines, and the company also serves the world's leading pharmaceutical manufacturers with overhead condensers and pressure vessels.

The company monetizes via project-based, custom-engineered sales with quote-based pricing tied to material selection, design complexity, dimensional requirements, and applicable pressure vessel codes. Commercial motion is enterprise field sales executed through direct engagement with customer engineering teams, EPC contractors, and engineering firms, supported by 30 international sales locations and production facilities in Camarillo CA, Texas, Northbrook IL (RIGHTech), Wuxi China, and India via the ISGEC TITAN joint venture. Group structure includes wholly-owned subsidiaries (TITAN Metal Finishing, Optimum Anode Technologies, RAM Industries, Special Metals) and a 50/50 JV with ISGEC in India. Revenue is not publicly disclosed, and the company appears to be founder or family-owned with no evidence of institutional capital, venture funding, or M&A by financial sponsors.

Name

TITAN Metal Fabricators

Legal name

TITAN Metal Fabricators, Inc.

Website

https://titanmf.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1998

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

TITAN Metal Fabricators is a privately held, Camarillo, California-based manufacturer of custom-engineered, corrosion-resistant process equipment — heat exchangers, pressure vessels, columns, reactors, and piping — fabricated from reactive metals (titanium, tantalum, zirconium, niobium) and high-nickel alloys. It serves chemical, petrochemical, oil & gas, pharmaceutical, and steel industries globally through direct enterprise sales.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Process Equipment Manufacturing

NAICS

Other Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing (3329), Coating, Engraving, Heat Treating, and Allied Activities (33281)

SIC

Miscellaneous Fabricated Metal Products (3490), Special Industry Machinery (No Metalworking Machinery) (3550)

akta.pro primary industry

Specialty & Alloy Steel (Stainless, Tool Steel, Electrical Steel, High-Strength/HSLA) (IMAKABAJ)

Keywords

• Corrosion-resistant process equipment
• Custom heat exchangers fabrication
• Reactive metal manufacturing
• Pressure vessels engineering
• Explosion clad metal fabrication

Headquarters

HQ city

Camarillo

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices6 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Custom Engineered Process Equipment: One-time project-based revenue from custom fabrication of heat exchangers, columns, pressure vessels, reactors, piping, and accessory equipment. Projects are custom engineered to customer specifications with pricing based on complexity, materials, and manufacturing requirements.
2. Technical Consultation Services: Engineering support services including corrosion analysis, material selection guidance, preliminary thermal/mechanical design, budget pricing, and corrosion test coupon analysis provided alongside equipment sales.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

TITAN Metal Fabricators is a custom manufacturer of corrosion-resistant process equipment, including shell and tube heat exchangers, columns, pressure vessels, reactors, piping systems, immersion coils, and clad/explosion-clad equipment. Products are fabricated from reactive and specialty metals (Titanium, Tantalum, Zirconium, Niobium, Hastelloy, Monel, Inconel, High Nickel Alloys, Duplex and Super Duplex Stainless Steel) for chemical, petrochemical, oil and gas, pharmaceutical, steel, alternative energy, and metal finishing industries. The company also provides technical consultation services including corrosion analysis, material selection guidance, and thermal/mechanical design support bundled with equipment sales.

Product overview

TITAN Metal Fabricators is a manufacturer of highly corrosion-resistant process equipment serving the chemical, petrochemical, oil & gas, pharmaceutical, steel, and alternative energy industries. The company's product portfolio is organized around five core engineered product categories — Shell and Tube Heat Exchangers (including Chemical, Pharmaceutical, Steel Pickling, and Oil & Gas variants), Columns for Chemical Process, Pressure Vessels, Reactors, and Piping/Piping Systems — supplemented by Clad/Explosion Clad Pressure Vessels and Accessory Equipment. These products are fabricated across five primary reactive and corrosion-resistant alloy product lines: Titanium, Tantalum, Zirconium, Hastelloy, and Duplex Stainless Steel (including Super Duplex and Lean Duplex). A subsidiary brand, TITAN Metal Finishing Equipment, serves the plating and anodizing industry with immersion coils, anode baskets, and tank liners. The company also operates a Technical Resources Center offering corrosion data, material properties, and technical literature. Manufacturing capacities reach up to 20 feet (6 meters) diameter, 300 feet (90 meters) length, 200 tons (180t) weight, 2500 psig pressure, and 1200°F (650°C) temperature.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• TITAN Metal Finishing: Metal finishing equipment including anode baskets, immersion coils, and tank liners
• RIGHTech Fabrications
• Optimum Anode Technologies

Products and services

• Shell and Tube Heat Exchangers TITAN's primary product line featuring TEMA-type shell and tube heat exchangers in fixed tube sheet, U-bundle, floating tube sheet, kettle reboilers, falling film evaporators, bayonet, helical coil, immersion coil, and double pipe designs. Available in solid, loose-lined, or explosion-clad tube sheet options, up to 120 inches in diameter and 200 tons, fabricated for chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, steel pickling, and oil and gas industries.
• Chemical Heat Exchangers TEMA-type heat exchangers for chemical and petrochemical applications, fabricated from Titanium, Tantalum, Zirconium, Hastelloy, Inconel, Monel, High Nickel alloys, Duplex and Super Duplex Stainless Steels, up to 120 inches diameter and 200 tons. Designed for aggressive chemical and petrochemical fluid streams requiring long service life and code compliance.
• Pharmaceutical Heat Exchangers Tantalum and Hastelloy overhead condensers and shell and tube heat exchangers designed for API pharmaceutical manufacturing, featuring fully drainable construction, fully welded containment for silicone-based heat transfer fluids, and zero product contamination compliance with FDA and CGMP requirements.
• Steel Pickling Heat Exchangers Tantalum shell and tube heat exchangers and immersion coils (serpentine, grid, U-shaped) for HCL and sulfuric acid pickle bath heating in steel mills. The company is the industry standard, with every major North American steel mill specifying TITAN for pickle lines.
• Oil & Gas Heat Exchangers Heat exchangers for oil and gas applications fabricated from Duplex Stainless Steel, Super Duplex Stainless Steel, High Nickel alloys, Hastelloy, and Titanium to address naphthenic acid, sulfur, CO2, and H2S corrosion issues, including refinery feed preheaters and hydrocracker U-tube bundles.
• Immersion Coils Corrosion-resistant immersion coils for metal finishing, plating, anodizing, and steel pickling applications, available in grid, serpentine, U-coil, and helical configurations in Titanium, Stainless Steel, Zirconium, Niobium, and Tantalum, with proprietary D-Shape manifold design.
• Columns for Chemical Process Custom-engineered chemical process columns (towers), available in large diameter designs with internal baffles, dip tubes, and spray rings, fabricated from Titanium, Tantalum, Zirconium, Duplex Stainless Steel, and Hastelloy for corrosion-resistant distillation and separation applications.
• Pressure Vessels Pressure vessels, reactors, columns, towers, and storage tanks up to 20 feet in diameter, available in solid wall, explosive clad, standard jacket, and half pipe jacket designs with agitator systems, fabricated from Titanium, Tantalum, Zirconium, Hastelloy, Inconel, Monel, Duplex and Super Duplex Stainless Steels, and High Nickel alloys.
• Reactors Custom-engineered reactors in solid wall, explosive clad, and standard jacket designs with agitator systems, dip tubes, and internal spray rings, fabricated from Titanium, Tantalum, Zirconium, Hastelloy, High-Nickel alloys, Duplex and Super Duplex Stainless Steels, up to 120 inches diameter and exceeding 200 tons.
• Piping and Piping Systems Corrosion-resistant piping in straight lengths, elbows, tee fittings, and spooled sections with weld-end connections. Designs include solid wall (HASTELLOY, Titanium, Duplex Stainless Steel), loose Tantalum-lined on Carbon or Stainless Steel substrate, and explosive clad for large diameter high pressure applications, rated up to 2000 PSIG.
• Clad/Explosion Clad Pressure Vessels Explosion clad pressure vessels, reactors, columns, and piping combining a carbon or stainless steel backer plate with a corrosion-resistant cladding material (Hastelloy, Nickel, Inconel, Monel, Austenitic Stainless Steel, Titanium, Tantalum, Zirconium, Duplex Stainless Steel), providing cost-effective corrosion resistance for vacuum and high-pressure applications up to 168 inches diameter and 200 tons.
• Accessory Equipment Custom corrosion-resistant accessory equipment including plenums, spargers, dip tubes, ejectors, injectors, thermowells, nozzle liners, tank liners, blind flanges, column internals, and spray nozzles, serving as supporting components for larger process equipment installations.
• Metal Finishing Equipment Metal finishing, plating, and anodizing equipment brand including Anode Baskets, Immersion Coils, Auxiliary Anodes, Tanks, and Tank Liners, marketed through the TITAN Metal Finishing subsidiary (titanmetalfinishing.com) for the plating and anodizing industry.

Quantifiable outcome

• Decades of service life for corrosion-resistant equipment when designed and fabricated correctly
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles6 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Haynes International, Inc.minorOthersMaterial supplier for Hastelloy alloys. TITAN fabricates equipment using Hastelloy corrosion-resistant alloys. Haynes provides reference letters for TITAN and supplies corrosion resistance technical data for Hastelloy B-3, C-22, C-276, C-2000, G-30, and G-35 alloys.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Holtec International: Engineers and manufactures specialty heat exchangers, pressure vessels, and reactor systems serving chemical, petrochemical, and nuclear markets. Comparable custom-engineered, high-spec fabrication profile to TITAN.
• Joseph Oat Holdings: Custom fabricator of pressure vessels, columns, and heat exchangers in reactive and corrosion-resistant alloys (Hastelloy, titanium, stainless). Directly overlaps TITAN in heavy, alloy-rich process equipment for chemical and pharmaceutical end markets.
• Vulcanium Metals: Specialty fabricator focused on titanium and reactive-metal equipment (heat exchangers, tanks, vessels) for chemical, pharmaceutical, and metal-finishing customers. Directly comparable niche scale, alloy specialization, and end markets.
• Graham Corporation: Public US manufacturer of heat exchangers, condensers, and pressure vessels for chemical/petrochemical, defense, and nuclear customers. Most directly comparable to TITAN in engineered heat-transfer equipment for corrosive and high-spec service.

Broad incumbents

• Haynes International: Producer of nickel- and cobalt-based corrosion-resistant alloys (Hastelloy is its flagship family) used by TITAN and other fabricators. Comparable because alloy metallurgy is the upstream foundation TITAN's equipment is built upon, and Haynes is also a reference-letter partner.
• Allegheny Technologies (ATI): Vertically integrated specialty metals producer of titanium, nickel alloys, and zirconium flat products with downstream fabrication capabilities. Adjacent rather than direct: ATI sits upstream of TITAN but competes in some flat-product/fabrication niches.
• Carpenter Technology: Specialty alloy producer of stainless, nickel, and corrosion-resistant alloys with significant fabrication operations. Comparable alloy expertise but operates at significantly larger scale and broader scope than TITAN's reactive-metal fabrication focus.
• Kelvion (formerly SPX Heat Transfer): Large, diversified manufacturer of heat exchangers and process cooling equipment serving chemical, petrochemical, and energy customers worldwide. Overlaps with TITAN in industrial heat exchangers but operates at much greater scale and broader scope.
• Babcock & Wilcox: Engineered industrial manufacturer of large-scale pressure vessels, heat exchangers, and boiler equipment for energy and process industries. Comparable in heavy industrial fabrication but with broader portfolio and lower reactive-metal specialization than TITAN.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance8 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A1 record

Investments

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