Clad Equipment

Clad equipment is any component or piece of equipment that is made by joining two or more different materials together. Cladding usually serves the dual objective of limiting the drawbacks of one material while combining the benefits of several materials into a unified structure.

Explosion Clad Vessels

All of our clad equipment is explosion-bonded. Explosion cladding is a welding process that uses explosions to bond two dissimilar metals while retaining the mechanical and corrosion properties of both parent metals. The process is most commonly used to clad steel with a thin layer of corrosion-resistant alloy metal, such as titanium or zirconium.

Clad Materials of Construction:

Titanium Clad Steel
Zirconium Clad Steel
Inconel Clad Steel
Hastelloy Clad Steel

Products Include

Thickness can go up to a 5" thick wall on vessels and over 10"; diameter on heat exchanger tube sheets.

Applications

TiFab manufactures heavy wall titanium-clad equipment for high-pressure and high-temperature applications in the Chemical/Petrochemical and Oil & Gas industries.

Titanium to Carbon Steel Explosive Bond

Special fabrication techniques are involved with welding explosion clad materials. Titanium and zirconium cannot be welded to steel, so the use of a batten strip must be employed to connect pieces of explosion bonded plate together. TiFab has employed these techniques for over 35 years.