Custom metal fabrication and welding for defense, aerospace, and industrial markets
Riggins Company designs and fabricates complex metal assemblies—navy weldments, pressure vessels, heat exchangers, steel structures—for the Department of Defense, NASA, and commercial customers. The company is actively addressing sales velocity and process scaling (pain points: expanding defense client base, increasing revenue, process inefficiencies). Tech stack is traditional (AutoCAD, Inventor, Microsoft Project, Trello, AWS X-Ray) with steady hiring across engineering and sales roles, suggesting a push to grow sales coverage and proposal throughput.
Riggins Company is a 51–200-person fabrication and welding specialist founded in 1960, based in Hampton, Virginia. The company designs and manufactures custom metal assemblies—including on-hull and off-hull navy weldments, pressure vessels, heat exchangers, and specialty structures—primarily for defense and aerospace. Customer base spans the Department of Defense, NASA, and industrial/craft sectors. Core capabilities span design, engineering, fabrication, welding, quality control, and installation. The company operates as a design-to-order shop, evidenced by active proposal development for defense projects and a stated focus on custom solutions.
Riggins designs and fabricates custom metal assemblies including navy weldments, pressure vessels, heat exchangers, steel structures, and specialty metals. Primary customers are the Department of Defense and NASA; they also serve industrial and craft distillery markets.
Riggins uses AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor, Microsoft Project, Trello, Excel, AWS X-Ray, and Microsoft Teams. The company is actively adopting Autodesk Inventor for design workflows.
Riggins Company is headquartered in Hampton, Virginia and was founded in 1960. The company has 51–200 employees and is privately held.
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