TAKING THE HARD ROAD
When Jason and his father Joe started the Titanium brand in 2012, they operated from a small shed making timber framed touring vans. Jason had just finished his plumbing apprenticeship, and Joe had many years of experience building vans behind him. In 2013 the pair decided to go in a new direction — they could see a future for offroad adventure vans and invested in tooling to build aluminium frames better suited to the harsh conditions of outback roads.
“Aluminium is stronger, lighter, can’t rot, and maintains a constant weight,” Jason said. “But it needs special tooling like stampers, riveting guns, and cutters — and not everyone can afford the investment.”
Henrob rivets interlock the 25mm C-sections of aluminium together in a way that allows the completed frame to flex without stresses that could cause cracking, making it an ideal method of construction for rough road travel. Jason is buoyed by companies like Ford, Audi, and BMW that use the same rivets in their alloy chassis — Audi introduced the method in the A8, and it’s in many thousands of
