TAW Custom Equipment traces its roots to 1956 when it was formed to design and fabricate heavy duty – custom specialty equipment and electrical gear for companies within Florida Phosphate Mining Industry.  Today the philosophy at TAW is the same – build the highest quality product that provides the customer years of unparalleled performance.  TAW Custom Equipment still proudly serves companies within the mining industries but today also provides the same legendary quality and service to military and homeland security agencies, municipalities, utilities, commercial and industrial accounts worldwide.

The mission of TAW is straight forward:  Excellence in creating innovative solutions for the supply, control and use of energy.  It is obvious from TAW’s products and solutions for power, control and distribution to see that TAW has a long history of innovation.  Whether it is designing and fabricating the industry’s most sophisticated mining pit gun car or designing a complex and redundant ground support power system for missile defense; the philosophy remains the same – build it to last.  TAW likes to say that we are your ultimate power partner.

TAW Custom Equipment is a division of (www.tawinc.com). Tampa Armature Works is a privately held firm head quartered in Riverview, Florida founded in 1921 by J.A. Turner Sr.  Today the third generation of Turners is at TAW’s helm – J. A. “Bubba” Turner, III.  The business has grown and flourished under three generations of Turners based on the principles of Quality, Value, Honesty and Integrity and a long tradition of providing service to the customer.

First Tampa Armature Works Electric Motor Repair Facility - 1921

J.A. Turner