Aggregate and cement drives
Crusher reducers, ball and grinding mill drives, kiln drives, and concrete mixer gearboxes rebuilt for dust, shock load, and continuous duty.
Dallas, TX · Industrial gearbox repair
Industrial Gearbox Repair in Dallas, Texas
Solution Gear Co. provides industrial gearbox repair for Dallas and the wider DFW metroplex from our family owned Houston shop, established 1998. Dallas and Fort Worth run on heavy rotating equipment, and when a reducer goes down the whole line stops with it. We have spent more than two decades pulling apart, measuring, and rebuilding the gear units that drive the metroplex, and we do all of the work in house, from cutting new gears to pressing fresh bearings, so nothing leaves our hands until it is right. Shipping between Dallas and our shop runs both ways for free, and every rebuild carries up to a 24 month workmanship warranty.
We repair and rebuild industrial gearboxes for Dallas plants, and the roughly 250 mile freight run to Houston never lands on your invoice. We crate, rig, pick up, inspect for free, rebuild stronger than OEM, and ship the unit back, with a written quote in your hands before any work begins.
The metroplex machine
One of the biggest manufacturing workforces in America.
Dallas does not always advertise itself as a factory town, but the numbers say otherwise. The Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro employed about 311,000 manufacturing workers as of May 2026, one of the largest metro manufacturing workforces in the country, per the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Dallas County alone produced $389.4 billion in GDP in 2024, one of the largest county economies in the nation, per the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Every bit of that output rides on conveyors, mixers, crushers, extruders, and mills, and every one of those machines turns on a gearbox.
The mix skews toward the sky. Aerospace products and parts is the metroplex region's most heavily concentrated manufacturing industry, with 34,965 jobs accounting for 67 percent of the industry's total Texas employment, per the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. On the west side of the metro, Lockheed Martin's Air Force Plant 4 in Fort Worth, home of F-35 final assembly, employs roughly 18,000 people, making it one of the largest single industrial employers in DFW, per Wikipedia. Around that aerospace core sits everything else: the quarry and cement belt to the south and west, the intermodal and distribution corridors, and the food, plastics, and metals plants spread across Mesquite, Garland, and the rest of the county. The same Comptroller report counted nearly 302,000 metroplex manufacturing jobs paying average wages of $81,759, with recent growth led by computer manufacturing, food manufacturing, aerospace, and plastics and rubber products. That is the equipment base this page is about.
Duty cycles, not spec sheets
The Dallas industries we keep running.
Each DFW sector beats up its gearboxes in a different way, so we tailor every rebuild to the duty cycle the unit actually sees, not to a generic spec sheet.
- Aggregate and cement. The metroplex is ringed by quarries, batch plants, and the high growth cement market around Midlothian and Fort Worth. We rebuild crusher reducers, ball and grinding mill drives, kiln drives, and concrete mixer gearboxes that live in dust and shock load all day.
- Distribution and logistics. DFW is one of the largest inland logistics hubs in the south, with the BNSF Alliance intermodal port, the Union Pacific terminal in southern Dallas County, and dozens of e commerce and 3PL facilities. The conveyor and sortation drives in those buildings run nearly around the clock, and we rebuild them on a schedule that keeps the belts moving.
- Food and beverage. A deep bench of food processors anchors the region. We handle the washdown duty reducers on mixers, fillers, conveyors, and packaging lines, including the corrosion and seal damage that comes with constant sanitation.
- Aerospace, metals, and plastics. Fabrication and manufacturing floors across the metroplex run gear drives we can rebuild, including extruder gearboxes on the plastics and compounding side and planetary units wherever high torque lives in a small envelope.
After more than twenty years on the bench we can usually tell where a unit ran just by how it failed. Aggregate and cement drives come in with tooth pitting and spalling from heavy repeating load. Planetary and roller mill drives arrive with degraded thrust bearings that let the whole gear train shift. A jammed crusher or a conveyor started under full load sends a torque spike through the drive that cracks gears, shears shafts, and rounds out keyways. Washdown lines lose seals to water and sanitation chemicals, and cement dust grinds gear and bearing surfaces from the inside once it gets past tired seals. Bearings are the most common single failure across all of it, which is why we run a full bearing repair and replacement line right alongside the gear work.
Rebuilt stronger than OEM
Why plants choose a rebuild over a replacement.
Most Dallas managers call us because the OEM lead time is months out or the quote to replace the unit is brutal. We rebuild the gearbox you already have, often stronger than it left the factory, and back it for up to 24 months.
Everything happens under our roof in Houston. We cut gears, repair and replace bearings, remake and harden shafts, line bore and weld housings, and reassemble to documented tolerances. When we say rebuilt stronger than OEM, we mean we upgrade the wear points that caused the original failure, the bearing grades, the seals, and the surface treatments, so the same fault does not bring you back. When drawings no longer exist we reverse engineer the gearing from the worn parts and cut new gears in house. The people who quote a Dallas job are the same people who rebuild it, so nothing is brokered out and nothing gets lost in a handoff. You can see the kind of work that comes off our floor in the gallery.
No stories, just terms
Our standing offer to Dallas plants.
We do not publish invented reviews or borrowed testimonials, here or anywhere on this site. What we can tell you is verifiable: this shop has operated in Houston since 1998, first as Hanson Gear Works and now as Solution Gear Co., with the same family ownership and the same in house capabilities throughout. That history is on our about page.
For Dallas, our proof is the shape of the deal itself. The unit ships to us free, we tear it down and inspect it free, and you get a written quote before you owe a dollar. If the numbers do not make sense for the equipment, we say so, and you are out nothing but a phone call. A shop that paid the freight both ways on jobs it could not win would not last long, and this one has been doing exactly that for years.
I-45 is our problem
Free freight both ways makes the distance disappear.
Dallas sits about 250 miles north of our southwest Houston shop via Interstate 45, roughly a four hour drive, which puts a shipped gearbox on same day trucking or overnight freight in each direction. A lot of plant managers assume sending a unit to Houston will cost a fortune and eat a week. It does not.
- Free pickup and delivery, including the crating and rigging it takes to move a heavy gearbox safely down I-45.
- Free shipping both ways, so the freight never lands on your invoice in either direction.
- Free inspection once the unit reaches the shop. We tear it down, find the real cause, and quote you before any work starts.
- Up to a 24 month workmanship warranty on the rebuild, regardless of where in Texas the unit runs.
A Dallas job moves on essentially the same clock as a local Houston one. Distance is our logistics problem to solve, not a reason to overpay a middleman. When something fails at night or on a weekend, the 24 hour line at 832 270 2009 gets a human, not a voicemail.
Metroplex duty
What comes down from DFW most.
Conveyor and sortation reducers
Shaft mounted and helical drives from intermodal yards, distribution centers, and 3PL facilities, rebuilt for near round the clock running.
Food and beverage reducers
Washdown duty drives on mixers, fillers, and packaging lines, with corrosion repair, reseal, and protection for sanitation environments.
Extruder and plastics gearboxes
High torque extruder drives for the plastics and compounding plants across the metroplex, rebuilt to handle sustained thrust load.
Planetary gearboxes
Full planetary rebuilds including carriers, sun and ring gears, and the thrust bearing stacks that fail under heavy axial load.
Shafts, gears, and housings
In house gear cutting, shaft remake and hardening, line boring, welded housings, and corrected contact patterns so the train runs true.
Dallas questions
What DFW plants ask us.
Does it really cost nothing to ship a gearbox from Dallas to Houston?
Correct. We ship both ways for free and that includes crating and rigging on heavy units. The roughly 250 mile run down Interstate 45 is our cost to carry, so it never appears on your invoice and it does not change the price of the rebuild.
How long does a Dallas job take once freight is factored in?
The haul between Dallas and our Houston shop is about a four hour drive, which means same day trucking or overnight freight each way. A Dallas gearbox moves on nearly the same timeline as a local Houston job. Once we have the unit we tear it down, inspect it for free, and quote you before any work begins.
Are you an authorized dealer for the brand on my gearbox?
No. We are an independent repair and rebuild shop. We are not affiliated with any gearbox manufacturer and we do not sell new units. We repair and rebuild what you already have as an OEM alternative, often stronger than the original.
What kinds of Dallas equipment do you rebuild most?
The most common units we see from DFW are aggregate and cement mill and crusher drives, conveyor and sortation reducers from the logistics centers, washdown reducers from food and beverage lines, and extruder drives from plastics plants.
What warranty comes with a Dallas rebuild?
We back our workmanship for up to 24 months, no matter where in Texas the unit runs. We rebuild the wear points that caused the original failure so the same fault does not bring the gearbox back.
Down the interstate
Where Dallas fits on our Texas map.
Dallas sits in Dallas County, and this page covers the whole metroplex side of our Texas service area. Every rebuild described here actually happens in Houston, the home base where our benches, gear cutting machines, and test stands live. Out in the Panhandle we serve the grain, feed, and wind corridor around Amarillo on the same free freight terms that make the I-45 run painless, and the same ship in model covers plants as far away as Cleveland, Ohio. For the full picture of the counties and cities we cover, start at the Texas service areas hub or browse every area we serve.
Send us your Dallas gearbox, freight is on us
Free shipping both ways, free inspection, and up to a 24 month warranty on every rebuild. Tell us about your unit and we reply fast, often the same day.
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