Welcoming Alliance Fabricating Ltd. to the Zynik Family
At Zynik, our work has always been guided by a simple belief: when skilled people are given the stability, support, and long-term runway they deserve, they build companies—and communities—that thrive for generations. Every new partnership is an opportunity to honor that belief and extend its impact.
Today, we are proud to share that Alliance Fabricating Ltd. has joined the Zynik family of companies within our Engineered Systems platform, a growing group of North American businesses dedicated to solving some of the most complex technical challenges in modern industry.
This acquisition is more than an expansion of capability. It is a continuation of our commitment to permanent ownership, skilled labor, and the belief that meaningful, lasting value grows from the hands and minds of people who take pride in their craft.
Strengthening the Engineered Systems Platform
The Engineered Systems platform was created with a clear purpose: to bring together companies capable of engineering and delivering highly specialized solutions for the world’s most demanding industrial environments. These are businesses that sit at the intersection of materials science, precision fabrication, and long-term performance, serving customers who depend on absolute reliability.
With Alliance joining the platform, we are expanding not only the range of technical problems we can solve, but also the depth of collaboration across disciplines.
Alliance brings expertise in:
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Complex shell-and-tube heat exchanger fabrication
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High-alloy and corrosion-resistant pressure vessels
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Advanced welding procedures and specialty metallurgy
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ASME code work and rigorous quality oversight
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Custom-engineered solutions for extreme-service environments
These capabilities complement and strengthen the work of RPS Composites and RPS Industrial Group, allowing us to support customers with integrated engineered solutions—whether the challenge calls for fiberglass, high-alloy metals, or a combination of both.
This is the vision behind the platform: companies that remain distinct, but benefit from shared knowledge, shared tooling, shared insights, and shared purpose. Each addition makes the entire platform stronger, more resilient, and better positioned to support industries that power our world.
Celebrating a Culture Built on Craft, Integrity and Skilled Labor
Alliance is the kind of company that reminds us why manufacturing matters.
Founded by Brant Jacklin, Alliance grew by earning the trust of customers who needed more than a fabricator—they needed a partner capable of handling complexity with care, discipline, and craftsmanship. For more than a decade, Alliance has built a reputation for tackling work others turn away from and delivering equipment that performs in environments where failure is not an option.
What stood out most to us—beyond the technical excellence—was the culture behind it.
Alliance represents the best of North American manufacturing: teams of highly skilled tradespeople who walk into the shop each day with deep pride in what they build. People who care about precision, about doing things the right way, about standing behind their work. People who know that excellence is never an accident; it is the result of discipline, learning, and respect for the craft.
We are honored to welcome a company whose values align so closely with our own. At Zynik, we invest permanently because we believe talented people should never have to live under the pressure of short-term ownership cycles. We believe in stability, in long-term planning, and in creating environments where skilled workers have room to grow, innovate, and build careers that change lives.
Alliance embodies these beliefs, and we are proud to support the team as they continue to build on the legacy they’ve created.
Honoring the Legacy of Co-Founder Brant Jacklin
Any meaningful company is shaped by the character and vision of its founders. Alliance is no exception.
From the beginning, Brant Jacklin built Alliance around three principles: do work you’re proud of, treat people with respect, and never shy away from complexity. These values have created a company that customers trust, employees commit to, and competitors admire.
We are grateful that Brant will continue to lead the business as President. His presence ensures that the culture, rigor, and standards that define Alliance remain at the center of its future. His leadership has been instrumental in building a company known for technical excellence, and we look forward to supporting him and the entire team as Alliance enters its next chapter.
In many ways, this acquisition is a celebration of Brant’s work—not a shift away from it. Our role is not to transform Alliance but to help strengthen the foundation he has built, provide the stability of permanent capital, and create opportunities for long-term growth that honor the company’s roots.
Expanding Our Commitment to North American Manufacturing
This acquisition also reinforces something deeply important to us: our belief in the future of North American manufacturing.
The industries we serve—energy, chemicals, mining, infrastructure, and advanced industrial production—depend on reliable equipment built by people with deep technical skill. They require fabrication standards that can only come from organizations committed to quality, safety, and long-term accountability.
We see enormous potential in the resurgence of North American industrial capacity. But growth depends not only on new technology; it depends on people. Welders, machinists, fabricators, engineers, technologists—these are the individuals who keep essential industries running. They deserve investment, training, stability, and environments where their work has purpose.
By bringing Alliance into the Zynik family, we are expanding our ability to support these workers and the communities in which they live. We are also strengthening the domestic supply chain by ensuring that complex engineered systems can be designed, built, tested, and delivered right here at home.
This is not a short-term strategy. It is a generational one.
Looking Ahead, Togetgher
Alliance’s story is far from finished. In many ways, it is only beginning.
With Zynik’s permanent ownership and the shared strength of the Engineered Systems platform, Alliance will have more opportunities to grow, innovate, and take on increasingly complex challenges. Our role is to empower their team, protect their culture, and provide the long-term stability that allows great companies to reach their full potential.
We look forward to the years ahead—years of continued learning, collaboration, and shared purpose. Years of supporting Brant and the entire Alliance team as they advance their craft and deepen their impact. Years of investing in skilled labor, strengthening North American industry, and building businesses that make a difference in the lives of people and the communities they serve.
We are grateful to welcome Alliance Fabricating Ltd. to the Zynik family. And we are proud to support a company whose work—and whose people—embody the values that shape our organization.
This is meaningful work. We are honored to do it together.
