What Roben Manufacturing does

Roben Manufacturing (legal name Roben Mfg. Co., Inc.) is a privately held, family-owned custom industrial equipment fabricator founded in 1955 and headquartered at a single Lakewood, New Jersey facility. The company designs, engineers, and manufactures reactors, pressure vessels, tanks, columns, and shell-and-tube heat exchangers — plus related specialty components such as column internals, vessel heads, skirts, platforms, and expansion joints — in carbon steel, stainless steel, and high-nickel alloys including Hastelloy and Inconel, with fabrication capacity for individual pieces up to 200 tons and diameters up to 108 inches.

Engineering is supported by in-house Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), and fabrication uses TIG, K-TIG, MIG, and SAW welding, plasma cutting, plate rolling, and orbital GTAW tube-to-tubesheet welding. The company holds an unusually broad code-certification stack — ASME U-stamp and R-stamp, UL, TEMA (Classes R/C/B), API 620/650, PED 2014/68/EU, NACE MR0175, National Board registration, CRN for all Canadian provinces, and ISO 9001 — enabling it to bid into regulated chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, food & beverage, defense, and power-generation end markets.

Roben operates a direct enterprise field-sales motion, with project-based custom quotes initiated via phone, email, and website forms. Pricing is not publicly disclosed and is determined per project based on specifications, materials, complexity, and required certifications. Finished equipment is shipped globally from the New Jersey facility via Newark and New York ocean ports or over-the-road trucking, with no distributor or channel intermediary layer. The firm maintains no external institutional investors and is classified as a small business under SBA affiliation.

Name

Roben Manufacturing

Legal name

Roben Mfg. Co., Inc.

Website

https://robenmfg.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1955

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Roben Manufacturing is a family-owned, ASME/PED/API-certified custom fabricator founded in 1955 in Lakewood, New Jersey, designing and manufacturing reactors, pressure vessels, tanks, columns, and heat exchangers in stainless and high-nickel alloys for chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, food & beverage, defense, and power-generation clients worldwide.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Process Equipment

NAICS

Power Boiler and Heat Exchanger Manufacturing (332410), Boiler, Tank, and Shipping Container Manufacturing (3324)

SIC

Fabricated Plate Work (Boiler Shops) (3443), General Industrial Machinery & Equipment (3560)

akta.pro primary industry

Pressure Vessels, Columns & Storage Tanks (ASME/Process Vessels) (IMAHAEAF)

akta.pro secondary industry

Expansion Joints, Flexible Connectors & Compensators (Rubber/Fabric) (IMANALAF)

Keywords

• Custom pressure vessels
• Industrial heat exchangers
• Process equipment fabrication
• ASME-certified manufacturing
• Reactor fabrication services

Headquarters

HQ city

Lakewood

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

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 Equipment Fabrication: Project-based custom fabrication of industrial pressure vessels, reactors, tanks, columns, and heat exchangers. Revenue is generated from one-time custom equipment orders tailored to customer specifications, including design, materials, manufacturing, and sometimes logistics/shipping. Each project is unique based on customer engineering specifications.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Roben Manufacturing designs, engineers, and fabricates custom industrial process equipment — including reactors, pressure vessels, tanks, columns, and heat exchangers — in carbon steel, stainless steel, nickel alloys, Hastelloy, Inconel, and clad materials. Each unit is built to customer specifications under ASME, TEMA, API, PED, and NACE code requirements, with capacities up to 200 tons and 108-inch shell diameters, and shipped globally from its Lakewood, New Jersey facility. The company provides full in-house engineering (FEA/CFD), fabrication (multi-process welding, plate rolling, machining), and logistics for enterprise industrial customers.

Product overview

Roben Manufacturing is an industrial equipment manufacturer offering a comprehensive portfolio of custom-designed and fabricated process equipment. The core product suite includes Reactors & Pressure Vessels, Tanks, Columns, Heat Exchangers, and Specialty Components & Services. These products work together as integrated process solutions: pressure vessels and reactors provide containment with heating/cooling capabilities via jackets and internal coils; tanks serve storage and mixing functions; columns enable mass transfer operations like distillation and absorption; heat exchangers manage thermal transfer for heating, cooling, and condensation; and specialty components (column internals, supports, platforms, advanced welding services) complete the systems. Products are manufactured in various alloys including stainless steel, nickel alloys, duplex stainless, Hastelloy, Inconel, and clad materials, with lifting capacities up to 200 tons and diameters up to 108 inches. The company follows ASME, TEMA, PED, API, and UL code standards, serving chemical, fine chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, food & beverage, defense, and power generation industries worldwide.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Reactors & Pressure Vessels Custom-designed reactors and pressure vessels manufactured to ASME Code Section VIII Division 1, featuring heating/cooling jacket systems (dimple, conventional, half-pipe coil), internal coils, and agitation systems for chemical, pharmaceutical, and industrial applications.
• Tanks Process and storage tanks in various configurations including ASME pressure vessels, API tanks, cryogenic storage, double-walled vacuum-insulated tanks, and stainless steel hygienic tanks for food, beverage, and pharmaceutical industries.
• Columns Distillation columns, process towers, packed and tray columns, fractionators, absorbers, demethanizers, and exhaust stacks designed for mass transfer operations in petrochemical, chemical, and power generation facilities.
• Heat Exchangers Shell and tube heat exchangers including coolers, condensers, evaporators, heaters, preheaters, reboilers, and LNG STV vaporizers designed to TEMA and ASME standards in carbon steel, stainless steel, Hastelloy, and high nickel alloys up to 108 inches in diameter.
• Specialty Components & Fabrication Services Custom fabrication services including ASME F&D heads, flanged and flued expansion joints, column internals (trays, support rings, distribution pipes), ladders/platforms/handrails, skirt and bracket supports, lifting up to 200 tons, and advanced welding capabilities including GTAW orbital tube-to-tubesheet welding.

Quantifiable outcome

• Equipment reliability solutions for reducing equipment failures
• +2 more outcomes

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

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.

• U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)minorOthersRoben Manufacturing is affiliated with the SBA, indicating they may be a certified small business. This affiliation provides access to government contracting opportunities and small business development resources.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Feldmeier Equipment: Feldmeier Equipment fabricates custom stainless steel process tanks, pressure vessels, and sanitary vessels for pharmaceutical, food & beverage, and chemical customers, overlapping Roben's hygienic/specialty alloy offering.
• API Heat Transfer: API Heat Transfer manufactures industrial heat exchangers, including shell-and-tube and plate designs, serving chemical, petrochemical, and power generation markets with comparable TEMA-compliant engineering capabilities.
• Paul Mueller Company: Paul Mueller Company designs and fabricates stainless steel process tanks, heat exchangers, and custom industrial equipment for food, beverage, dairy, and pharmaceutical customers, a close functional analog in size and vertical focus.
• Joseph Oat Corporation: Joseph Oat Corporation fabricates custom ASME-coded pressure vessels, columns, tanks, and heat exchangers in stainless and high-nickel alloys, closely overlapping Roben's product portfolio and customer verticals.
• Graham Corporation: Graham Corporation designs and manufactures custom industrial heat exchangers, pressure vessels, and condensers for defense, nuclear, and chemical customers, sharing Roben's engineered-to-order specialty equipment model.
• BE Peterson: BE Peterson is a comparable custom ASME pressure vessel and heat exchanger fabricator serving chemical, petrochemical, and power generation customers with similar specialty alloys and code-certified welding capabilities.

Broad incumbents

• Chart Industries: Chart Industries is a much larger global manufacturer of cryogenic and process heat exchangers, cold boxes, and pressure vessels serving industrial gas, energy, and chemical customers, overlapping Roben's heat exchanger product line at greater scale.
• Kelvion: Kelvion (formerly GEA Heat Exchangers) is a broad global incumbent producing shell-and-tube, plate, and finned heat exchangers for chemical, petrochemical, power, and marine customers, comparable in product but significantly larger than Roben.
• Babcock & Wilcox: Babcock & Wilcox is a long-established incumbent in power boilers, heat exchangers, and nuclear containment vessels, sharing Roben's ASME/TEMA/API certifications and power/defense verticals but operating at far greater scale and scope.
• Holtec International: Holtec International is a larger diversified manufacturer of nuclear and industrial heat exchangers, pressure vessels, and spent fuel containment, sharing Roben's nuclear and defense certification footprint but at significantly greater scale.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance17 records

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Valuation estimate

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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