Solution Gear Co. provides industrial gearbox repair for Ohio manufacturers from our family owned Houston shop, and free shipping in both directions means the distance never shows up on your invoice. Your team crates the failed unit, we cover the freight, and the gearbox reaches our floor in two to three days by ground. We tear it down, magnaflux it, and quote it free, then rebuild it stronger than OEM with new gears, reground journals, OEM bearings, and new seals. Every rebuild is test run before it ships back and carries an up to 24 month workmanship warranty, and our 24 hour emergency line treats a stopped line in Cleveland exactly like one in Houston.
Ohio has earned its industrial reputation with numbers, not nostalgia. Manufacturing contributed $137.9 billion to the state's economy in 2024, growing 2.9 percent over the prior year and accounting for 16.5 percent of Ohio's private economy, the largest share held by any of the state's 19 private sectors, per the Ohio Manufacturers' Association 2025 Ohio Manufacturing Counts.
The workforce is just as heavy. Ohio ranks third in the nation in manufacturing employment with 687,345 manufacturing jobs, trailing only California and Texas, and manufacturing payroll totals $49.9 billion, the highest total annual wages of any sector in the state, per the same Ohio Manufacturers' Association report.
Every one of those plants turns product with gear drives. Roll stands and pinion stands move steel, extruder gearboxes push polymer, speed reducers pace machinery lines, mixer and pump drives run food plants, and stamping and transfer drives feed vehicle production. When one of those drives fails anywhere in Ohio, this page is the front door to our shop: one phone call, freight covered both ways, and a rebuild that comes back stronger than the unit that failed.
We cover the entire state by freight, and we maintain a detailed local page for the market that ships us the most iron. Coverage is organized by county, with city pages grouped under each county.
Cuyahoga County has the most manufacturing jobs of any county in Ohio, per the Ohio Manufacturers' Association county data, which makes it the natural anchor for our Ohio coverage. Our dedicated city page covers industrial gearbox repair in Cleveland, including the steel, machinery, and plastics plants along the Cuyahoga River industrial corridor.
A plant in Columbus, Toledo, Akron, Dayton, or any other Ohio town gets the same offer as a plant across the street from our Houston shop: free shipping both ways, free inspection, and a written quote before any work starts. If your city does not have its own page yet, start from this one or browse all service areas. Our home market pages for Texas show the same structure applied to the Gulf Coast.
The Ohio Manufacturers' Association ranks Ohio fifth nationally in manufacturing output, with strengths spanning steel, polymers and plastics, machinery, food processing, and motor vehicles, per its 2025 Ohio Manufacturing Counts. Our service list maps onto that mix almost line for line.
For steel producers and service centers we handle industrial gearbox rebuilds, roll and shaft repair, shear blade sharpening and rebuilds, crane wheel regrinding, and babbitt bearing repair on the heavy, slow turning equipment mills depend on.
Ohio's polymer plants run on extruder gearboxes and screws and barrels, both of which we rebuild in house. We also repair the hydraulic cylinders that clamp and push on the same lines.
Machinery builders and plants running older equipment use our gear cutting and reverse engineering service when OEM drawings no longer exist. We measure the worn gear, cut a new one, and return a matched set, including planetary and epicyclic sets.
Food processors send us mixer gear drives, pumps for rebuild, speed reducers from packaging lines, and worm gear units, including Cleveland brand reducers, all torn down, quoted, and rebuilt under one roof.
Whatever the industry, the process is identical. The unit arrives, we photograph and tear it down, magnaflux the housing and gears, and measure every journal and bore. You get a written quote with the real condition before you commit. Approved work gets new gears cut in house, journals reground or built up, OEM bearings, new seals, and recut keyways, then a test run before the unit ships back to Ohio.
We are not going to paste invented testimonials from Ohio plant managers on this page, because we do not publish reviews we cannot verify. Here is what we can state plainly. Solution Gear Co. has operated as a family owned gearbox shop in Houston for over 20 years, doing every step of the work in house: teardown, magnaflux inspection, gear cutting, heat treat, machining, assembly, and load testing. The same people who quote your job do the work on it.
Ohio is a freight market for us, and we treat it that way openly. There is no Solution Gear truck making rounds in Cleveland. Instead, the model is built so distance costs you nothing: shipping is free in both directions, the inspection and quote are free, and you approve the repair in writing before a single part is touched. Heavy units are not a problem, and we help you plan crating and rigging on your end before anything moves.
If you want to judge the workmanship before you ship, look at the shop gallery, read how we approach a full gearbox rebuild, and call the shop with the nameplate data. You will be talking with the people who will actually open your unit.
Free shipping in both directions removes the only real cost of distance. Ground freight from most Ohio addresses reaches our dock in two to three days, and the rebuilt unit rides back the same way at our expense.
Teardown, gear cutting, heat treat, machining, assembly, and the test run all happen on one floor. No subcontract loop, no finger pointing, and one warranty you can hold us to.
Much of Ohio's installed base predates its paperwork. When OEM drawings are gone, we measure the failed gear and cut a new one to match, which is often the difference between a rebuild and a forced machine replacement.
Every rebuild carries an up to 24 month workmanship warranty, and a complete overhaul can save you up to 50 percent versus the OEM purchase price. The 24 hour emergency line answers when the failure does not wait for business hours.
Our Ohio coverage anchors on Cleveland for a reason. Cleveland-Cliffs, headquartered in the city, is the largest producer of flat rolled steel in North America and a leading supplier of automotive grade steel, per Cleveland-Cliffs company information. Its Cleveland Works on the Cuyahoga River runs two blast furnaces, an 84 inch hot strip mill, a tandem cold mill, and a hot dip coating line, with an annual raw steel capacity of 3.4 million net tons and about 2,161 employees as of December 2023, per the Cleveland-Cliffs Cleveland Works fact sheet.
The wider metro carries one of the Midwest's largest manufacturing employment bases, roughly 116,500 manufacturing jobs as of December 2024, spanning steel, machinery, plastics, chemicals, and food processing, per U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics payroll data published by FRED. Cuyahoga County's economy reached $135.9 billion in GDP in 2024, the second largest county economy in Ohio, per U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis county data via FRED.
Equipment at that scale is exactly what our shop was built around: bull gears and pinions, helical and herringbone reducers, worm drives, crane drives, and the babbitt bearings under all of it. The details live on our gearbox repair in Cleveland page.
You call or send the quote form, we help you plan the crating, and we arrange freight at our cost. The unit ships to our Houston shop, we tear it down, clean it, and magnaflux it, then send you a written quote before any repair work begins. Once you approve, we rebuild the unit, test run it, and ship it back to your Ohio plant, again at our cost.
We do, in both directions. Free shipping both ways is standard on every job, the same offer our Texas customers get. Inspection is free as well, so an Ohio plant can get a real condition report and a firm quote without spending anything.
Ground freight typically runs two to three days each way from most Ohio addresses. When a line is down we quote overnight air freight instead, and our 24 hour emergency line at 832 270 2009 answers around the clock so the plan is moving before the unit is even crated.
Yes. Cleveland is a gear drive brand as well as a city, and we rebuild Cleveland worm gear speed reducers along with Falk, Lufkin, Flender, Dodge, and many more. See our Cleveland gear repair brand page for the brand itself, and our Cleveland, Ohio service page for the city.
The industries the Ohio Manufacturers' Association identifies as the state's strengths, steel, polymers and plastics, machinery, food processing, and motor vehicles, all run on gear drives. Those are the drives we rebuild: roll stand and pinion stand gearing, extruder gearboxes, speed reducers, mixer drives, crane drives, and pump gear ends.
We rebuild each component stronger than OEM. Gears are manufactured new, journals are reground to size, bearings are OEM, seals are replaced, and keyways are recut. Every unit is test run before it ships back to Ohio and carries an up to 24 month workmanship warranty, and you can save up to 50 percent versus the OEM purchase price.
Yes. Our emergency line answers 24 hours a day, and we have rebuilt failed units and had them back on site in as little as 5 days. For Ohio, plan on freight time in each direction. When ground freight is too slow for the situation, we quote air freight both ways to pull days out of the schedule.
Free shipping both ways, free inspection, and an up to 24 month warranty on every rebuild. Send the nameplate data and a photo, and we will reply fast, often the same day. Email Shop@sgearbox.com or call the shop directly.
