Consulting, executive engineering and commissioning of non-ferrous metal smelters — from idea to steady-state operation. We step in where the investment is stuck: equipment bought and never installed, a process that won't close its mass balance, metal that ships crude and sells below market.
The tin route allows no shortcuts. Anyone who tries to buy equipment before closing the flowsheet, or sell solder before refining the metal, pays twice: on the wrong CAPEX and on the discounted sale price.
Click each step to see what needs to be resolved before moving forward.
Before any equipment: ore characterization. Grade, particle size, gangue mineralogy and the presence of tantalum, niobium, iron and sulfur define the entire downstream route.
What's usually missing: characterization assay and preliminary mass balance. Without it, plant sizing is guesswork.
"I want to produce solder from my ore."
That route doesn't exist. Solder is an alloy formulated from refined tin — first the smelter delivers the metal, then refining guarantees the grade, only then the alloy. Skipping a step here means buying equipment that's useless.
Redirected at the start of the investment. Today it follows the correct sequence, with the solder scope positioned at the right phase of the project.
"I want pure tin, but without the refining step."
Without refining there's no purity — there's crude tin, which the market buys at a discount. We calculated exactly what was missing and how much the discount cost per shipped tonne.
The client chose to continue with crude. Their decision — but an informed one, with the cost of the discount on the table. That's consulting too.
Every block opens with the outcome for the client. The technical detail sits under “view technical scope,” for the engineering team to evaluate later.
You have a plant that isn't delivering what it should, and no one can pinpoint where. We do: we analyze the real need, identify the specific process step limiting the result, and restructure the operational flow for immediate gain.
A plant that isn't delivering what it should, and no one can pinpoint where.
Diagnosis of the real cause, process flowchart review, and mass balance closure step by step.
Operational flow restructured for immediate gain — including value recovery from streams discarded today.
Emphasis on tin production, applicable to non-ferrous metals such as gold, copper, tantalum and niobium. Covers diagnosis of client need, raw-material characterization, process flowsheet review, mass balance closure, process calculations, stage-by-stage metallurgical yield assessment and operational flow restructuring.
Includes value recovery from streams currently discarded — a typical case: tantalum and niobium contained in slag generated during the tin process.
Before signing off on the investment, know whether it adds up. Precise definition of fixed and variable costs, CAPEX and OPEX broken down line by line, and profitability projections on assumptions the committee can defend.
Committing to an investment without knowing if it adds up.
CAPEX and OPEX broken down line by line, specific consumption and capacity sizing.
A defensible profitability projection — or the recommendation not to proceed.
Preparation of a technical and economic feasibility study: definition of fixed and variable costs, detailed CAPEX (capital investment) and OPEX (operating cost) analysis, specific input and energy consumption calculations, capacity sizing and realistic profitability projection. Objective: correct, viable and sustainable projects — or the recommendation not to proceed.
From concept to a plant running at steady state. A single technical lead follows layout, equipment, team, ramp-up and commissioning — no scope handoff along the way.
A project that changes technical lead midway and loses scope.
Layout, sizing, civil, mechanical and electrical engineering and mass balancing under a single technical lead.
A plant running at steady state, with ramp-up, start-up and commissioning followed through to the end.
Development of complete executable projects: optimized industrial layout, plant and equipment sizing, civil, mechanical and electrical engineering designs, process flows, production calculations and mass balancing, team planning, progressive ramp-up, supervised start-up and full commissioning.
Includes reuse of already-purchased equipment — a recurring situation in projects that stalled before assembly.
Move from metal to the higher-value product: a family of solders with repeatable composition and international compliance, in the format your customer buys.
Refined metal that hasn't yet become a higher-value product.
Alloys as bars, wires, rolled stock, sheets, chopped preforms, anodes and solder paste, to specification.
Repeatable composition and compliance with international quality standards.
Development of complete projects with a tin emphasis for alloy production in multiple formats — bars, wire, rolled stock, sheets, chips, anodes and solder paste — with precise technical formulations, compliance with international quality and sustainability standards, and optimization for high-performance industrial applications.
A good plant with an untrained team produces scrap. Hands-on modules built around your production's actual demand — not a catalog course.
A well-designed plant with an untrained team, producing scrap.
Hands-on modules built around your production's actual demand — not a catalog course.
A team operating with regulatory compliance, more efficiency and less risk.
Specialized, customized training for operational teams in metallurgical processes, focused on quality, comprehensive safety and environmental sustainability. Hands-on modules adapted to the specific demands of tin and non-ferrous metal production, with attention to regulatory compliance, operational efficiency and risk reduction.
For electronics manufacturing that needs to pass a customer audit: SMD, PTH, manual, selective, rework and repair under IPC and J-STD standards.
Electronics manufacturing that needs to pass a customer audit.
Training in SMD, PTH, manual, selective, rework and repair, under IPC and J-STD standards.
A team able to sustain the customer's quality audit.
Specialized training in soldering processes with tin-based solders, covering SMD, PTH, manual, selective, rework and repair techniques, emphasizing the international quality standards IPC and J-STD — technical mastery, operational efficiency and regulatory compliance for high-performance applications.
Certified training, aligned with the automotive supply chain's audit programs. Instructor certified by IQA — the Automotive Quality Institute.
Welding Process Assessment — requirement interpretation and auditor training.
Electronics Manufacturing Soldering Systems Assessment — requirement interpretation and auditor training.
Training according to IQA — Automotive Quality Institute standards, certified and aligned with the CQI-15 and CQI-17 audit programs, qualifying teams for compliance with international standards, rigorous audits and optimization of soldering processes in metallurgical and automotive high-performance environments.
Without reliable on-site analysis, your metal's grade is opinion. A laboratory specified, assembled and commissioned to back up the purity certification at the negotiating table.
Metal grade backed by opinion, not by reliable on-site analysis.
Laboratory specification, assembly and commissioning — equipment, exhaust, effluent treatment and analytical methods.
Purity certification with real technical backing at the negotiating table.
Chemical laboratory commissioning for mining and metallurgical processes: equipment and utilities specification, fume hood and exhaust system installation, sedimentation tanks and effluent treatment, analytical method definition, and laboratory team training.
Describe the plant's situation in two lines. The reply comes back with the step already identified.
Context, scope, technical challenge, applied solution and result. Some figures remain in ranges due to contractual confidentiality — what's published is authorized.
Mining company with smelting equipment already purchased and never used, sitting idle on site. Capital tied up, no production and no defined route for the metal.
Complete assembly of the tin smelter reusing existing equipment; assembly of the solder alloy production plant; design of a tantalum and niobium recovery route from the slag generated in the tin process.
Fitting equipment specified by third parties into a flowsheet that closed the mass balance — instead of repurchasing the plant. And turning a liability (slag) into a stream with recoverable value.
High-purity tin production (99.9%) and solder alloy line operating. Ta/Nb slag recovery route designed — new revenue from material that used to go to the tailings pile.
Volumes and values under contractual confidentiality.
Detailed technical documentation, references and previous client contacts are shared under NDA, at the proposal stage.
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Graduated from the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais in 1998. Before graduating he was already working in steel and metallurgy, focused on refractory ceramics, research and development, quality, process standardization and training.
Since then dedicated to metallurgy, with an emphasis on non-ferrous metals from 2003 onward — tin, gold, lead, zinc, tantalum and niobium. Dynamic, committed and ethical: ensures the project moves forward with technical rigor and persistence, regardless of where it's executed.
While the world stopped for COVID-19, Titan Engenharia took off with bold projects in Africa. Founded in 2021, it now runs consulting, training and complete projects — from idea to operation, with CAPEX and OPEX on the table.
Already working in steel and metallurgy before graduating: refractories, R&D, quality and standardization.
Specialization in refractory materials and non-ferrous metal metallurgy, with an emphasis on tin.
Founded in the middle of the pandemic, with the first smelting projects in Central and West Africa.
Active projects in the DRC, Uganda, Nigeria and Venezuela; work delivered in Brazil, Thailand and Namibia.
Extensive hands-on experience in non-ferrous metallurgical processes, paired with constant updates on production technologies — giving operational confidence for the hard decision, with the plant down and the clock running.
Broad command of quality and environmental regulations, especially those covering products with elevated ionizing energy — a recurring topic in tin, tantalum and niobium concentrates.
At every level of the project and in any jurisdiction. Transparency with human life as the priority is the company's first value, not a closing slide.
From the DRC to Venezuela, the responsible engineer stays on the plant through assembly, ramp-up and start-up. Whoever answers for the project is the one who was at the furnace.
Doesn't represent manufacturers or receive commissions on the sale of materials or equipment. The technical opinion has no stake beyond the plant's result.
Guide non-ferrous metallurgical projects from idea to full operation, with consulting, training and integrated solutions for productivity, safety and sustainability.
To be a global reference in non-ferrous metals, leading sustainable and profitable innovations in international projects.
Integrity — transparency and prioritizing human life.
Ethics and responsibility — trustworthy relationships, positive impact.
Bold innovation — challenges turned into opportunity.
Technical excellence — precision in processes and solders.
Participation at the leading electronics manufacturing trade show and technical congress, where the IPC and J-STD standards underlying the soldering training are discussed and revised. Staying current is what keeps the training valid for customer audits.
Reserved space: technical articles, talks and LinkedIn content go here once published. Recent technical presence is worth more than an old talk archive.
Certified instructor. Applied in CQI-15 (welding process) and CQI-17 (electronics manufacturing welding systems) auditor training.
Reference standards in SMD, PTH, manual, selective, rework and repair soldering training, and in solder alloy and paste specification.
Engineering — PUC Minas, 1998. Specialization in refractory materials and non-ferrous metal metallurgy. Command of quality and environmental regulations, including products with elevated ionizing energy.
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