Climber on coastal limestone above turquoise water, Krabi

About VERTA

VERTA Company Limited makes climbing hardware in Krabi, Thailand.

Why we do it

Every rebolt is another hole in the rock.

That's the part that gets forgotten. When hardware fails early, somebody has to go back up, drill the cliff again, and leave the old anchor in it. Do that three or four times on a popular route and the wall starts to show it.

So the job is hardware that doesn't need doing again. That means choosing the material against the environment rather than against a price list, and then proving the material is what it claims to be.

We started here because Krabi punishes getting it wrong. Stainless anchors last two to five years on the limestone at Railay and Tonsai, and you can't see it coming, because the attack happens inside the metal. The bolt looks like a bolt right up until it isn't one. Titanium doesn't do that, and the titanium on these walls has been in for over twenty years.

What we make

Grade 2 titanium glue-in anchors, forged lower-off rings and quick links. Sold singly, or as matched sets so there's no dissimilar metal anywhere in the anchor. Designed, machined and tested here.

How we prove it

Anyone can print a grade on a product page. Very few people test the part they actually ship.

Every batch of finished hardware goes to the Thai-German Institute for independent composition testing by optical emission spectroscopy, measured against ASTM B265 Grade 2. Not the mill certificate that arrived with the bar stock. The finished part. Reports are kept against the batch, and I'll send you the one covering your order if you ask.

Rings are proof loaded individually. Quick links are destructively sampled from every batch. We publish the figures rather than summarising them. The full detail, including where we stand on certification, is on our safety and testing page.