Werts Welding & Tank Service Wood River

Werts Welding & Tank Service Wood River is located at 400 N Old St Louis Rd, Wood River, IL 62095.

Headquartered in Wood River, Illinois (25 minutes N.E. of St Louis, Missouri), with parts distribution centers in San Antonio, TX., Birmingham, AL., Atlanta, GA., Tampa, FL., Des Moines, IA., Billings, MT., and Denver, CO. Werts Welding & Tank Service is recognized as the name in the tank trailer industry for knowledge, service and repair, parts, new and used tank trailer sales & tank wagon sales.

Known for our extensive and diverse inventory, Werts Welding is a stocking distributor of tank trailer equipment for more than 40 major manufacturers. Being an online UPS shipper, Werts Welding can distribute parts and equipment throughout the United States, Canada & Mexico with ease. We also have established strong alliances with various exporters to expedite our international shipments.

Because of our large customer base and the vast experience (over 120 years) of our sales team, we have consistently talked the customers language. We take great pride in our ability to quickly supply the customer with the right part at the right time, the first time!!

Here at Werts we offer our own 600 page Tank Trailer Parts catalog, which is supplied free to customers. This catalog helps the order process for parts go more smoothly and efficiently. Our old catalog is displayed on our web site and can be downloaded and printed. As of May, 2016, Werts published its newest catalog that is now available.

The Wood River facility, in addition to parts warehousing, includes a 10 bay shop. We are a D.O.T. registered, National Board and A.S.M.E. accredited tank trailer repair & fabrication facility. The Birmingham facility also is an accredited tank trailer repair facility along with a complete parts distribution warehouse. New Heil & Beall aluminum tank trailer sales, Trans Tech, & Mid-State truck tanks sales are all handled from our Wood River location. Werts maintains a large inventory of New and quality used tank trailers, of which all inquiries should be made to our Wood River location. In Early 2011, Werts became a distributor for the ST&E Stainless Steel trailer line. This trailer line is a perfect compliment to our company mission statement of supplying all of our customers needs. These sales are also handled out of the Corporate Wood River location. Additionally, in October 2015, Werts now offers LP and Anhydrous ammonia trailers for sale out of our Wood River, IL. location.

Werts Welding is a family owned corporation and attributes the growth of the company to the dedication and ability of its 80+ employees. Each employee is considered to be a part of this family.

Company History

Werts Welding & Tank Service, Inc. first opened its doors for business in March of 1957. It\'s founder, Robert R. Werts, became interested in welding in high school during the 1940\'s and worked for a welding shop for 6 years after his discharge from the service. Mr. Werts, along with his wife Verna, began their welding business in a portion of a 30 ft. x 40 ft. building across the street from its present location in Wood River, Illinois.

In 1958, shortly after the construction of their first building, Mr. Werts was approached by a local trucking company to repair a damaged petroleum tank. This unit began the process of Werts Welding & Tank Service, Inc. specializing in the tank trailer industry.

After several years of repairing Tank Trailers without a reliable source of parts, Werts Welding started stocking equipment for the type of tank trailers they were repairing. Customers soon found out about our stock & over-the-counter parts sales began to local accounts. This division of the business grew very fast, so more product lines were added. With the development and distribution of a complete tank trailer parts catalog, Werts Welding & Tank Service, Inc. evolved into one of the premier tank trailer equipment distributors in the world.

Fifty seven years of serving the Tank Trailer Industry has seen many changes and challenges for the Werts family and their extended family of employees. The founders son, Dwight A. Werts, joined the firm in 1977 and is now the President and CEO.

To better serve our customers, Werts Welding opened a tank trailer parts distribution center in San Antonio, TX. in 1991. Seeing a need to better service our customers in the Southeast; in 1997 Werts acquired new parts distribution centers in Birmingham, AL., Atlanta, GA. and Tampa, FL. In 2003 an opportunity was presented to us which allowed Werts to open our 6th branch in Des Moines, IA. In December, 2011, we opened our 7th branch, this one in Billings, MT. when we recognized the need for a reliable tank trailer parts distributor in this part of the U.S.

On March 1, 2013, we opened our 8th branch, this one in Denver, CO. This branch has tank parts, trailer sales & straight truck sales. The Denver branch has allowed us to continue expanding toward the west coast so that we can service our customers in a more timely manner and offer us a chance to broaden our customer base.


We would also like to thank all of our customers, suppliers and everyone in the tank trailer industry for 58+ years of continued support and we look forward to serving all of your tank trailer needs in any way we can, now and in the future.


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