Tampa Tank plans 108 new jobs

TAMPA — Customized steel company Tampa Tank Inc. & Florida Structural Steel is investing more than $18 million in an expansion that is expected to add more than 100 jobs to the Tampa Bay area.

Those positions, which the company says will pay nearly 150% of the state's average wage, will include 24 at its Ybor City headquarters and another 84 at a refurbished manufacturing facility it's leasing in Gibsonton's Port Redwing.

The new port, part of land acquired by the Port of Tampa in 2012, will be home to a new 120,000-square-foot building the company is planning to build there. Tampa Tank also will retrofit its existing 40,000-square-foot building in Ybor.