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Freeport, TX · Industrial gearbox repair
Industrial Gearbox Repair in Freeport, Texas
Solution Gear Co. provides industrial gearbox repair for Freeport, Texas, serving the chemical plants, port terminals, and LNG operations clustered where the Brazos meets the Gulf. We are a family owned Houston shop about 55 miles up State Highway 288, and every job runs the same way: our crew picks up your failed unit or you ship it free, we tear it down and magnaflux every component, and it returns rebuilt stronger than OEM, test run, and covered by an up to 24 month workmanship warranty. Inspection is free, shipping is free both ways, and a firm quote lands in your hands before any repair begins.
Solution Gear Co. rebuilds industrial gearboxes for Freeport plants from our Houston shop, roughly 60 to 75 minutes north on State Highway 288. Extruder gearboxes, agitator and mixer reducers, cooling tower fan drives, pump gearboxes, and dock crane drives all get free pickup, a free inspection, and a loaded test run before delivery back to your gate.
Where the chemical coast begins
Sixty five plants inside one fence line, and a port behind them.
Freeport is not a town with some industry attached. It is the home of Dow's Texas Operations, the largest integrated chemical manufacturing complex in the Western Hemisphere and Dow's biggest site anywhere in the world. The complex spreads across about 7,000 acres and runs roughly 65 production plants, turning out around 44 percent of the products Dow sells in the United States and about 20 percent of what it sells globally, per Dow. Roughly 4,200 employees and another 3,800 contractors pass through those gates daily, and Dow has been the city's largest employer since operations began in 1940, per DBusiness Magazine.
The water side of town matches the plant side. Port Freeport and its partner terminals moved 39.3 million tons of cargo in 2025, ranking 6th in the nation for chemicals and about 13th in total foreign waterborne tonnage, per Port Freeport. That activity supports more than 37,000 jobs across Brazoria County, including over 12,000 direct jobs and about 3.4 billion dollars in local labor income, per the Texas A&M Transportation Institute study published on Port Freeport's economic impact page. Across the channel on Quintana Island, Freeport LNG runs three liquefaction trains with roughly 15 million tonnes per year of nominal capacity, one of the largest LNG export facilities in the country, per Global Energy Monitor.
Every one of those numbers depends on rotating equipment. Extruders pelletize resin around the clock, agitators keep reactors moving, cooling towers fight the Gulf heat, and ship loaders follow the tide tables. A single seized reducer anywhere in that chain stops product from moving, and that is the phone call our shop exists to answer.
Matched to resin, brine, and salt air
The gear drives a chemical town wears out.
A chemical manufacturing city sends us a different mix than a refinery town does. The signature unit from Freeport is the extruder gearbox, the heavily loaded drive behind plastics compounding and pelletizing lines, and rebuilding them is one of our named specialties. Alongside those come mixer and agitator reducers from reactor and blending service, industrial gearboxes on cooling tower fans that run wet all summer, and gear drives on process and transfer pumps. When the pump itself is tired, our pump rebuild bench restores the rotating element in the same building. Plants running plasticating screws can pair a gearbox rebuild with our screw and barrel service so the whole drivetrain comes back matched.
Coastal service adds its own punishment. Salt air, brine carryover, and process chemistry attack housings, seals, and shaft journals, so we magnaflux every gear and casting rather than assume anything, regrind or build up worn journals, and renew every bearing and seal as a matter of course. From the port side we take crane and hoist drives, winch drives, and conveyor reducers, and our crane wheel bench regrinds wheels true. When a drive predates its manufacturer's exit from the business, our gear cutting department measures the worn parts and cuts new gearing to match, drawings or no drawings.
What sets our bench apart
Reasons Freeport units ride north to West Bellfort.
No drawings
Gearing cut from the worn parts
Plants that have run since 1940 hold drives with no living OEM. We reverse engineer the geometry and cut new gears to match.
Half of new
Rebuilds priced to win
Rebuilding can cut the bill by up to 50 percent compared with buying new from the OEM, and the finished unit ships back under a workmanship warranty of up to 24 months.
5 days
Emergency turnarounds
The line is answered 24 hours a day, and failed units have gone back into service in as little as 5 days.
The honest version
We are a Houston bench that Freeport ships to, and that is the whole model.
You will find no invented Freeport testimonials on this page and no imaginary branch office near the port. Solution Gear Co. operates one shop at 8449 West Bellfort Ave in southwest Houston, and Freeport work runs on a ship in and pickup basis: our truck collects the unit from your plant or terminal, or you send it to us with shipping paid both ways, and it comes home rebuilt, test run under load, and warrantied. Serving the Gulf Coast this way for over 20 years is exactly how the shop grew, because a chemical corridor needs a gear bench it can trust more than it needs another storefront.
What we offer instead of borrowed praise is evidence you can inspect. The free teardown report documents every worn component with photographs and measurements before you approve anything, the quote you sign is firm, and our gallery shows real gearboxes on our floor in before and after condition. Judge the work, not the marketing.
Down 288, back up 288
Fifty five miles between your gate and our crane.
The run from our Houston shop to Freeport covers about 55 miles and takes roughly 60 to 75 minutes: south on State Highway 288, then State Highway 332 or State Highway 36 into town. That is close enough for our own crew to handle pickup with crating and rigging included, so your millwrights never have to load a multi ton reducer, and close enough that an emergency collection can happen the same day you call. For turnaround season we schedule pickup against your outage window, stage bearings and materials before the unit arrives, and hold the promised return date. Whether the gearbox rides on our truck or a carrier you choose, transport costs you nothing in either direction.
Freeport questions
Asked by the plants at the end of Highway 288.
Do you pick up gearboxes from plants in Freeport and on Quintana Island?
Yes. Our crew drives down from Houston, crates and rigs the unit at your site, and hauls it back to our shop at no charge. Freeport is about 55 miles from our door, roughly 60 to 75 minutes south on State Highway 288 and then State Highway 332 or State Highway 36 into town, so pickup runs on our truck and our schedule, not a freight carrier's. The return trip to your gate is free as well.
Can you rebuild extruder and pelletizer gearboxes from Freeport chemical plants?
Yes. Extruder gearboxes from plastics and compounding service are a specialty of our shop. We tear the unit down, magnaflux the gears and housing, cut new gearing when the old set is beyond saving, regrind the journals, fit OEM bearings and fresh seals, and test run the rebuilt unit before it ships back with an up to 24 month workmanship warranty.
What if the manufacturer no longer supports a drive at our Freeport site?
That is normal work for us. Plants that have run since the 1940s hold plenty of gearboxes whose builders are long gone. We measure the worn gears and shafts on our own equipment, reverse engineer the geometry, and cut new gearing to match, no OEM drawings required. The rebuilt unit carries the same warranty as any other job on our floor.
How fast can you turn an emergency gearbox rebuild for a Freeport unit?
We answer the phone 24 hours a day and have put failed units back in service in as little as 5 days. Call 713 270 6000 at any hour and we will start the recovery plan on that call, including a same day drive down to collect the unit from your plant or terminal.
What does gearbox repair cost for a Brazoria County plant?
The diagnosis costs nothing. Pickup, shipping both ways, and the teardown inspection are all free, and you receive a firm quote with photos and measurements before you approve any repair. A complete rebuild can save you up to 50 percent versus the OEM purchase price.
Freeport gearbox down? Start with a free inspection.
Email the nameplate and a photo to Shop@sgearbox.com or just call. Free pickup from your Freeport plant, free shipping both ways, a free teardown with a full condition report, and an up to 24 month warranty on the rebuild. We reply fast, often the same day.
Up the coast from here
Where the same bench serves next.
Freeport is our southern anchor in Brazoria County, and the full list of Texas counties and cities we cover lives on the statewide Texas service area hub, with every state we serve indexed under all service areas. Following the coastline northeast, we rebuild gear drives for Galveston's harbor and dry dock operations and handle refinery and terminal gearboxes in Texas City. Inland, the shop itself and its home turf are covered on our Houston industrial gearbox repair page.