Caldwell Tanks

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.