Business View Magazine | October 2019

109 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE OCTOBER 2019 QUAL I TY TANK SOLUT IONS , LLC shares, “We are a female-owned, family- run business. Chad Sprinkman and I started Quality Tank Solutions in May 2012 with the concept of taking what we’d always done – which was stainless steel – and making it better by providing the best service in the industry with the highest quality products. Our background is dairy, and food and beverage. Chad’s on the sales side of the company and I’m in design and engineering. We started with the mindset of focusing on the brewing side of the industry and we’ve grown extensively – today, seven-and-a-half years later, we have 88 employees.” The company sells across the U.S. and also has clients in the Turks and Caicos, Canada, and South America. The corporate office, where it all started, is in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin and that location also houses a small manufacturing facility and warehouses. As the business grew, they expanded to Marshfield, Wisconsin (about 2 ½ hours north) and built a brand-new state of the art facility where about 55 people work. In food processing, everybody uses steel tanks, so QTS does a lot of work with cheese plants and dairy plants. Clientele include Schreiber, Heinz, Kroger, and Organic Valley. Beverage plants include Citrus Systems, Beverage Flavors, and King Juice. On the brewing side, the big boys like Founders Brewing and Three Floyd are clients. QTS also set up local craft breweries and brew pubs across the country. As for competition, Sukys notes, “Our main differentiator from the competition is our installation team with a focus on service. Not only do we use sanitary installs, but we do industrial as well. So, you can come to QTS and we can help you design, create, and conceptualize your facility – whether it’s adding or changing or building brand new. In addition to the sanitary install, we install boilers, chillers, grain handling equipment, walk-in coolers; it’s almost a turnkey situation. That’s the biggest difference we offer.” QTS is brewing up a storm of new growth, enough that they’re ready to expand the Marshfield plant that was built in 2017, and already expanded once in 2018. In the near future, they’re also looking forward to bringing onto the market some