1887 founder william e. caldwell headquarters 4000 tower rd louisville ky 40219 area served worldwide key people bernie fineman ceo products industrial storage tanks asme vessels elevated storage tanks ground storage tanks turbine inlet cooling systems number of employees 500 1 website caldwelltanks.com brooks catsup bottle water tower the world s largest ketchup bottle built by caldwell tanks in 1949 . caldwell tanks is a large privately held company that designs fabricates and builds tanks for the water wastewater grain coal and energy industries . caldwell is the largest elevated tank company in the world . caldwell has approximately 500 total employees with 206 employees in louisville at its 20 acre 81 000 m2 headquarters campus . caldwell has two major facilities fabrication facilities in louisville kentucky and newnan georgia . contents 1 operating divisions 2 history 3 notable projects 4 use as a filming location 5 see also 6 references operating divisions edit caldwell tanks constructs customized elevated and ground level potable water storage tanks industrial api tanks and asme vessels industrial field erected projects in industries such as oil gas midstream and chemical . caldwell energy established in 1995 caldwell energy provides turbine inlet air cooling tic systems history edit caldwell tanks was founded in 1887 by william e. caldwell . the company was originally known as w.e. caldwell co. the firm remained in the caldwell family until 1986 when it was purchased by james w. robinson . robinson appointed a former banker bernard s. fineman to be president of caldwell . 2 the w.e. caldwell company headquarters was originally located on what is now part of the campus of the university of louisville . the university s red barn multi purpose activities facility is a remaining building of the original caldwell tanks complex . the university purchased the facility from caldwell in 1969 . 3 in april 2011 caldwell tanks completed a 16 000 square foot 1 500 m2 expansion of its headquarters in louisville . the expanded space doubled the office space at its louisville headquarters adding additional offices conference rooms and file storage rooms . caldwell also announced plans for a 24 000 square foot 2 200 m2 addition to its 180 000 square foot 17 000 m2 production facility . 1 4 5 notable projects edit earful tower caldwell s most widely recognized installation is the earful tower located at disney s hollywood studios theme park . the tank won the tank of the year award in 1987 from the steel plate fabricators association . 6 solana generating station caldwell was awarded the contract to build 12 molten salt thermal energy storage tanks for the first large scale solar plant in the united states capable of storing energy . 7 western kentucky university water tower in fall 2004 caldwell completed the new 2.5 million us gallon 9 500 m3 water tank on the western kentucky campus . the 156 foot 48 m landmark tank features wku s mascot big red and it was constructed at a cost of 1 662 000 . 8 victory junction gang camp caldwell completed a 140 foot 43 m tall 150 000 us gallon 570 000 l capacity hot air balloon styled tank for kyle and pattie petty s victory junction gang camp . 9 st. charles county missouri water district 2 caldwell was awarded the 2005 steel tank of the year award by the steel tank institute steel plate fabricators association sti spfa for an elevated tank completed in december 2005 . the 180 foot 55 m tall tank has a capacity of 3 000 000 us gallons 11 000 000 l of water . 10 south carolina electric & gas company caldwell energy installed the world s largest central chilled plant dedicated to combustion turbine inlet air cooling at the jasper power plant in hardeeville south carolina 11 collinsville illinois caldwell completed the world s largest ketchup bottle water tower for the g.s. suppiger catsup bottling plant in 1949 . 12 brown forman distillery caldwell completed the louisville distillery s old forester whiskey bottle tank in 1936 . 13 the bottle district caldwell constructed the giant vess bottle in st. louis missouri in 1953 . 14 15 use as a filming location edit caldwell s newnan georgia facilities have been used as a filming location for films and television series . portions of the hunger games mockingjay part 1 were filmed on the caldwell tanks property in december 2013 to january 2014 . portions of the amc television series the walking dead have also been filmed at caldwell s facilities in newnan . 16 17 18 see also edit brooks catsup bottle water tower references edit a b caldwell tanks expanding headquarters building louisville business first . bizjournals.com . 2010 12 17 . retrieved 2014 01 21 . kleber john e. the encyclopedia of louisville . 2001 . p 156 . george j. howe red barn university of louisville . louisville.edu . retrieved 2014 01 21 . raytheon caldwell tanks bekaert could bring total of 55 jobs to louisville area louisville business first . bizjournals.com . 2010 02 25 . retrieved 2014 01 21 . cfo of the year caldwell s barry geswein goes extra mile louisville business first . bizjournals.com . 2011 06 24 . retrieved 2014 01 21 . daystr . the earful tower disney world s forgotten icon disney world blog discussing parks resorts discounts and dining . only wdworld . retrieved 2014 01 21 . caldwell tanks awarded contract for arizona project louisville business first . bizjournals.com . 2011 01 18 . retrieved 2014 01 21 . caldwell tanks puts western kentucky u. tank on books . waterworld . 2004 09 20 . retrieved 2014 01 21 . 1 archived august 7 2010 at the wayback machine . 2 archived august 7 2010 at the wayback machine . https web.archive.org web 20100807101250 http www.caldwelltanks.com tanks newsarchive jasper.php . archived from the original on august 7 2010 . retrieved january 22 2011 . missing or empty title help g mann mike gassmann . world s largest catsup bottle collinsville illinois . catsupbottle.com . retrieved 2014 01 21 . http www.americanprofile.com article 5134.html simple html tm by webmasters.com . world s largest vess bottle . worldslargestthings.com . retrieved 2014 01 21 . u.s. route 40 world s largest vess bottle . route40.net . 2010 09 29 . retrieved 2014 01 21 . http www.caldwelltanks.com hunger games 3 mockingjay begins filming at caldwell tanks http www.caldwelltanks.com hunger games filming resuming at caldwell tanks http www.cnn.com 2014 11 12 travel atlanta film tourism walking dead retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title caldwell tanks & oldid 739256274 categories companies based in louisville kentuckycompanies established in 1887storage tankshidden categories articles with wayback machine linkspages with citations lacking titlespages with citations having bare urls navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured 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