YOUR BUSINESS AUTHORITY
Springfield, MO
YOUR BUSINESS AUTHORITY
Springfield, MO
Holloway America custom designs, engineers and fabricates pressure vessels in its 100,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Springfield. Every vessel is tested to meet stainless steel American Society of Mechanical Engineers code requirements. The product also plays a key role in various industries, including the pharmaceutical sector to produce live-saving drugs and vaccinations, the nutraceutical industry for beauty and self-care products and the food and beverage industry for creating lab-grown meats and condiments.
SBJ: How long have you manufactured this product?
Randy Colwell: In the pharmaceutical business for us, we’ve been doing these vessels, I’d say 18 to 20 years. People look to us because they’re looking for the highest quality vessel that you can buy with the lowest amount of risk. One of our taglines is “We’re not low priced, but we are low risk.” Everybody’s trying to mitigate risk nowadays, and the equipment that we manufacture is incredibly pure. It’s incredibly sanitary.
SBJ: What is unique or notable about your pressure vessels?
Colwell: The one thing about our company is that the vessels that we build are probably the highest quality in the industry. We have such a low failure rate and a low warranty rate. Everybody loves it because our downtime is so small on the vessels that we have. We are virtually always on time. Very rarely do we ever miss a ship date.
SBJ: Any notable clients that you can disclose?
Colwell: We cater to the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies, so I could name you the top 25 manufacturers in the world and they always say that we are on their preferred vendors list. Twenty years ago, we weren’t very well known, and it was like, “Well, you can bid on this if you’d like to.” And now we have customers that come to us and say, “We need you to bid on this because we don’t trust anybody else.” Eli Lilly, Genentech, Fujifilm are some of the other larger companies we’ve worked with, as well as Amgen, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Biogen.
SBJ: How do the sizes vary?
Colwell: What’s unique about our business is that every single tank that we build is virtually different. Very seldom do we ever have any repeats unless that customer is building a secondary line somewhere, and they may have one line they want to build this product. We may have one vessel that they want that’s 2,000 liters, and on the same order it’s 3,000. We’re always custom designing every piece of equipment. One liter is the smallest tank we ever built, and there’s a picture of it next to a banana on our social media pages. The largest tank we’ve ever built was 100,000 liters.
SBJ: How many countries do you ship it to, and is that number on the rise?
Colwell: It varies year by year. We ship to about 20 countries worldwide. A vast majority of our business is in the United States and Canada – I would say about 85% of our business is North America. The balance of it is countries in Europe, Australia. There is some work we’ve done in Japan, Singapore and a little bit in South America.
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