Titan America: products, EPDs, and the spec game

Who Titan America is

Titan America is a vertically integrated producer across Florida, the Mid‑Atlantic and Metro NYC. The portfolio spans cement, ready‑mix concrete, concrete block, aggregates, terminals, and fly ash beneficiation via Separation Technologies. Their plants post long ENERGY STAR streaks and they report net CO₂ intensity at 582 kg per ton of cementitious materials in 2024, down from 718 kg in 2019, nearly a 19% drop (Titan America IR, 2025). See their sustainability notes here if you want the company voice on decarbonization (Titan America IR, 2025).

What they sell, in practice

In cement, Titan was an early mover to Type IL portland‑limestone cement across Roanoke and Pennsuco, and is now commercializing Type IT blends in the Mid‑Atlantic (Titan America IR, 2022; Titan America IR, 2025). In concrete, Titan Virginia Ready‑Mix and Titan Concrete in Florida supply mixes from residential 3,000 psi to high‑performance paving. Titan Block manufactures a wide range of CMU sizes and textures in Florida. Aggregates operations feed internal concrete demand and local markets (ACA, 2025).

If you count SKUs the way specifiers experience them, the ready‑mix catalog is in the hundreds, cement in the dozens when you include packagings and DOT approvals, and CMU likewise in the dozens.

Where EPDs are strong today

Ready‑mix is the bright spot. Titan Virginia Ready‑Mix has plant‑specific EPD coverage spanning 16 plants, verified under NRMCA’s program, which is exactly the flavor LEED v5 reviewers prefer for materials credits (NRMCA, 2025) (NRMCA, 2025). Florida plants also appear throughout NRMCA’s participant listings, signaling broad EPD readiness across that network (NRMCA, 2025).

Cement EPDs, the likely swing factor

Project teams increasingly ask for product‑specific cement EPDs to avoid generic penalties in whole‑building carbon accounting. We did not find a current, public Type IL or Type IT cement EPD prominently listed for Titan on major operator libraries at the time of writing. Competitors do publish plant‑level cement EPDs and even aggregate them in dedicated libraries, for example Holcim’s cement EPD set covering multiple U.S. plants (Holcim, 2024) (Holcim, 2024). That delta can decide specs on public work or corporate campuses with tight embodied‑carbon targets.

CMU and aggregates, the quiet gap

Titan Block serves a large CMU catalog in Florida. We could not locate a current, public Titan‑authored CMU EPD in operator libraries. Several masonry competitors provide Type III CMU EPDs, and the industry’s first U.S. CMU industry‑average EPD is now live, which raises the bar for project baselining (CMHA, 2024). If a design team compares block packages, having no CMU EPD can trigger conservative assumptions and a disadvantage in carbon scoring. Aggregates show a similar pattern. We did not find Titan‑published aggregate EPDs on major registries, while some peers have begun to post quarry‑specific declarations. If those materials are swap‑able, this matters commercially.

A concrete example of spec risk

Take a bread‑and‑butter CMU in Florida. Without a product‑specific EPD, a designer targeting low‑carbon procurement will lean to a rival CMU that offers a verified Type III declaration. Oldcastle APG, among others, has CMU EPDs listed with ASTM’s program operator that a specifier can cite on day one (ASTM, 2024) (ASTM, 2024). That is a small documentation edge that shows up repeatedly across multifamily, education and municipal work.

Competitive set you’ll meet on bids

On cement and concrete, expect Holcim US, Heidelberg Materials, Cemex, Martin Marietta and Argos to appear often. Many of them maintain active EPD libraries for cement and for ready‑mix, plus broad NRMCA coverage in Florida and the Mid‑Atlantic, for example Cemex’s numerous Florida plant listings under NRMCA’s program (NRMCA, 2025). The point is not that their mixes are greener by default, it is that their paperwork is ready to be counted.

Why EPDs here matter to revenue

LEED v5 pilots and owner policies are tilting from disclosure to disclosed‑and‑better. If your cement or CMU lacks a product‑specific EPD, teams are forced to use conservative defaults that make your bid look heavier on carbon than it is. That can push a product out of a short‑list without a technical argument, which is a avoidable own‑goal. The price of creating a few key EPDs is often eclipsed by the margin on one mid‑sized institutional job.

Short, actionable playbook

Start with the SKUs that move volume and are most substitutable. For Titan, that likely means: a Type IL or Type IT cement EPD at each supplying plant, plus CMU EPDs covering the main Florida block lines. Align with the same PCRs and program operators your competitors use so spec teams can compare apples to apples, then make data collection painless across plants. Keep an eye on expiry windows and PCR updates, since EPDs generally carry a five‑year validity rule of thumb (ACA, 2025).

Bottom line

Titan already checks the hard part with hundreds of EPD‑covered ready‑mix mixes and credible decarbonization progress. Closing the remaining gaps in cement and CMU would round out their story and remove easy reasons to get swapped at submittals. That is the difference between winning on performance and price or watching specs drift to the shop next door because the paperwork was missing a page. It’s frankly a no‑brainer to fix.

References used for numeric context above: NRMCA listings for Titan Virginia Ready‑Mix and Florida plants in 2024–2025, and Titan’s reported 2019 to 2024 CO₂ intensity change. Additional cement EPD libraries reviewed for competitive benchmarking.