titanium.
Forty percent lighter than steel by density, forty percent stronger than aluminium by tensile — and drawn cold in Milano like everything else we make. Hyperion is titanium put through the Columbus school.
the numbers.
Figures from the Columbus 2024 titanium catalogue. Test bars, not marketing bars.
| −40% | density against steel — the lightness you feel first | DENSITY |
| 15–20% | weight saved on a finished frame at equivalent stiffness | FRAME |
| +40% | ultimate tensile strength against aluminium | UTS |
| +22% | UTS gained by cold-drawn butting over plain Grade 9 tube | COLD WORK |
cold, not cast.
“Most titanium tubes are bought. Ours are drawn — the same benches, the same discipline, the same Milano cold work as the steel.”
Hyperion is a triple-butted 3Al-2.5V alloy, cold-drawn from seamless Grade 9 tube. The drawing work is the difference: +22% ultimate tensile strength over non-butted titanium, with a range of special shapes and bends drawn from the Columbus archives, new and old.
- Alloy
- 3Al-2.5V
- Grade
- 9 · seamless
- Butting
- triple
- Shapes
- new & old archives
built for welders.
“Titanium punishes a dirty joint. So we ship it clean.”
Columbus’ proprietary drawing lubricant leaves Hyperion tubes extra-clean out of the box — no residual oils, no solvent ritual before the purge. Builders prepare tubes for welding in a fraction of the usual time, and the weld pool stays honest.
- Lubricant
- proprietary · clean
- Prep
- faster to weld
- Out of box
- no residual oils
DRAWN INTO — the Hyperion tubeset →