Modern Welding Company is the country's largest supplier of underground and aboveground steel storage tanks for flammable and combustible liquids. The company also manufactures chemical storage tanks and ASME pressure vessels, performs steel fabrication, and constructs and installs natural gas pipelines. Modern is headquartered in

Owensboro, Kentucky Owensboro is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Daviess County, Kentucky, United States. It is the fourth-largest city in the state by population. Owensboro is located on U.S. Route 60 and Interstate 165 about southwest of Lou ...

and has ten manufacturing subsidiaries throughout the United States.

History

Modern Welding Company was founded in June 1932 in

in a small shop located near the

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at 1st and Frederica Street where the Commonwealth of Kentucky office building is today. The company was founded by John G. Barnard (1898–1982), known as "Mr. Pete". In 1937 the company expanded with the acquisition of a plant in

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