Fisher Tank Company
Field erected welded steel storage tanks are our business. We provide tank engineering and design, in-house fabrication, blasting, painting, on-site construction and maintenance for above ground tanks across the U.S. We are a field erected welded steel storage tank company. We are a 100% employee-owned small business dedicated to safety, quality and productivity in everything we do.
Company details
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- Business Type:
- Manufacturer
- Industry Type:
- Water and Wastewater - Water Storage
- Market Focus:
- Nationally (across the country)
- Year Founded:
- 1948
This company also provides solutions for other industrial applications.
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About Us
We've been building and repairing tanks since 1948
Pennsylvania, 1948
Joseph Fisher started Fisher Tank and Welding Company in Chester, PA in 1948. Mr. Fisher saw a need for effective, mobile and honest welded steel tank repair services in the burgeoning oil and gas industry in the refinery-rich Northeastern US.
Soon the Fisher Tank team was not only repairing oil tanks, they were building tanks, too. As the industry boomed, the need for storage tanks boomed. Refineries, manufacturing plants, chemicals production facilities and other operations all needed tanks. In 1951, Mr. Fisher incorporated in Chester, PA under the name Fisher Tank Company. As suburbs exploded around major cities, there was a huge need for water storage tanks to serve those new communities. Fisher Tank built its first welded steel standpipe in West Point, PA in 1956. The 100-foot-tall standpipe held 250,000 gallons of water.
The company continued to grow steadily, adding equipment, personnel and capabilities to its Chester fabrication shop, and serving such local giants as Sun Oil, New York Shipbuilding Company, Gulf Oil, The Veteran’s Administration Hospital and the Huber Baking Company. The company remained a small business, however, and its leadership held tightly to Mr. Fisher’s high standards for quality work and integrity in all business relationships.
In the early 1970s, the company identified the need for welded steel storage tanks in the growing industrial activity in the Southeast. In 1975, Fisher Tank began offering tank design, construction and repair services to a variety of potential customers in the Southeastern US. Starting with a single Toyota Corolla, Fisher Tank Company’s South Carolina operations were established in Lexington, SC, and grew to include a fabrication shop and an office that housed sales, engineering, safety and other operations.
With custom fabrication and construction unit maintenance shops along the major I-20 and I-95 corridors, Fisher Tank Company was well positioned to serve customers in many sectors of our economy. From the oil and gas industry to power generation, bulk liquid terminals to pharmaceutical production, wherever there was a need for safe, economical, reliable custom storage vessels, Fisher Tank offered custom tank solutions. The company soon established itself as a leader in the field-erected welded steel tank industry, building all across the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Midwest and Gulf Coast regions.
We Are Tanks
Today Fisher Tank Company is an employee-owned small business. We are a leading full-service welded steel tank fabricator and constructor in the U.S., with unmatched expertise working in a wide range of industries for more than 70 years. Our executive leadership and management teams have more than 268 years combined experience in our industry, and they have collectively covered every aspect of storage tank design, fabrication, maintenance, repair and everything in between. This collective knowledge means better design, more efficient production, improved quality, faster job completion and lower costs for our customers.
We operate two storage tank fabrication facilities; one in Chester, PA and the other in Leesville, SC. From these facilities, we provide complete tank design and fabrication services.
Chester, PA55,000 sq. ft. fabrication and maintenance shop with plate cutting, beveling & rolling capabilities, as well as custom fabrication for tank stairs, ladders, platforms, bridges, manways, door sheets, etc., and other specialized fabricated pieces.
55,000 sq. ft. fabrication and maintenance shop with plate cutting, beveling & rolling capabilities, as well as custom fabrication for tank stairs, ladders, platforms, bridges, manways, door sheets, etc., and other specialized fabricated pieces.91,000 sq. ft. fabrication and maintenance shop with plate cutting, beveling & rolling capabilities, custom fabrication of ladders, manways, platforms, stairs, bridges and other specialized pieces. Our SC shop has in-house blasting capabilities with a Wheelabrator blasting system and offers in-house painting in our environmentally controlled paint booth.
Both facilities supply and maintain our custom designed Fisher Tank Company field units that provide complete support for our field construction operations.Atascadero, CA
Our West Coast operations are based in our Atascadero, CA, office. The Atascadero team includes Safety, Project Management, Construction Management and Sales, and works hand-in-hand with our teams in PA and SC.
As a Fisher Tank Company customer, you get the support and extensive experience of our entire team. We are a leader in our industry in safety and technology, but we are a small business with old fashioned values. We’re a team across the board, and when you’re our customer, you get the whole team.
- Safety
- Quality Control/Quality Assurance
- Estimating & Sales
- Project Management
- Engineering
- Drawing Control
- Fabrication Shops & Maintenance
- Construction Management
- Field Foremen & Field Construction Crews
- Field Painting
Our executive management team is directly involved with the day to day operations of our fabrication shops and our projects in the field. Collectively, this team has nearly 300 years experience in our business. They’ve sold tanks door-to-door, they’ve swept the shop floor, and some of them were building tanks before safety was even a thing. Their most important qualification is that they genuinely love our people, our business and our customers.
Working With US
Fisher is always looking for suppliers to provide quality materials used in the manufacturing and installation of tanks. We choose our supplier partners based on product performance, business practices, value and other metrics. Contact us today to learn more.
Are you a skilled, qualified subcontractor with established safety programs and a good safety record? Contact us about potential opportunities to work together. The first step in the process is to download, fill out and return our Qualification Form. Download that form here. Fisher primarily (but not exclusively) contracts with professionals in these industries:
- Tank Foundations
- Field Painting
- Insulation
- Cathodic Protection
- Site Clearing & Grading
- Tank Demolition
- NDE Inspection
- HDPE Liners
Fisher encourages qualified WBEs and MBEs to apply.
Collaboration with EPC firms as they prepare for major projects helps all parties understand all the options available and their consequences, and to align expectations, helping to lay the groundwork for a highly successful project. Our experience and insights mean we’re able to see a project from a “big picture” perspective, and to identify even the smallest details that could impact the tank portion of large, complex projects.
We can help make the design and building process more effective with preliminary technical information, planning and scheduling, and budgetary pricing. Check out our New Tank project planning worksheet and our Tank Repair project planning downloads for free tank planning worksheets.