Business View Magazine | December 2020

97 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE DECEMBER 2020 F I SHER TANK COMPANY one of the founders, was working with Chicago Bridge and Iron at the time and noticed a gap in the market for quality welded steel tank repair services in the booming oil and gas industry of the Northeast. As a boilermaker himself, he had the technical knowledge required to undertake this venture. Partnering with Bob Borst, they incorporated Fisher Tank Company in 1951. Five years later, the company built its first welded steel standpipe in West Point, Pennsylvania; a 100-foot-tall standpipe holding 250,000 gallons of water. In 1975, the company saw an opportunity to venture into the Southeast, which led to the opening of its South Carolina office, originally in Lexington but today in Leesville. Although it started as a one-person sales outpost, the location currently has a fabrication shop and an extended office with sales, engineering, and support staff. Windham recalls, “There were no refineries in South Carolina, so we diversified and got into the chemical industry; we did water tanks, industrial work – a whole host of different things.” The company soon opened two other offices, one in Cropwell, Alabama and most recently, in Atascadero, California. Today, Fisher Tank Company is a leading, full- service, welded-steel tank fabricator and constructor with unmatched expertise working in a wide range of industries nationwide. Fisher Tank’s high level of specialization has helped the company differentiate itself from other service providers. “We design, fabricate, and field- construct carbon and stainless-steel tanks and vessels better than anyone else,” says Windham. “It’s all we do. One of our strengths is that we’re very diverse in the markets we serve, but with one major product. We build one thing, and that’s a field-erected welded-steel storage tank. We fabricate the parts and send them out to the field to get built by our boilermaker field crews.” Underpinning this specialization is a combination of vertically integrated services the company offers that make it a full-service