Business View Magazine | January 2020

107 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JANUARY 2020 SMI TH INDUSTR I ES , INC . for. He decided to branch out and start his own business with 15-20 employees. Most of the equipment was smaller, standard design, low pressure, non-coat, non-API (American Petroleum Institute) for the vessels and tanks. That’s how it started. Today, we’re up to 194 employees. We’ve expanded our overall scope of work in the market that we’re going after, to API-Monogram tanks, non-coat and coat tanks, vessels, heater treaters, testers, piping, launchers, and receivers.” “When our shop was smaller, we just worked for a handful of different customers and they would keep our production line full,” Smith continues. “So, we were lucky enough to have a good brand, high quality, and high service. We didn’t have a large customer base back then. Now that we’ve grown our shop space and our product line, we deal with several different customers. Exxon and XTO are our biggest customers for storage tanks and vessels.” All of the company’s production storage tanks