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Texas City, TX · Industrial gearbox repair
Industrial Gearbox Repair in Texas City, Texas
Solution Gear Co. provides industrial gearbox repair for Texas City, Texas, serving the refineries, terminals, and port docks that keep the mainland shore of Galveston Bay working. Our family owned Houston shop sits about 42 miles up the road, close enough that our own crew picks up your failed unit, and every rebuild happens in house: teardown, magnaflux, machining, gear cutting, and a loaded test run before the unit comes back. You get free pickup, free shipping both ways, a free inspection, an up to 24 month workmanship warranty, and 24 hour emergency service, with a firm quote in your hands before any work begins.
Solution Gear Co. rebuilds industrial gearboxes for Texas City plants from our Houston shop, roughly 45 to 55 minutes away via Beltway 8 and Interstate 45. Cooling tower drives, pump gearboxes, crane and winch drives, and conveyor reducers all get the same treatment: free pickup, free inspection, a rebuild stronger than OEM, and a test run before delivery back to your gate.
The local economy
Two refineries, one port, and no room for downtime.
Texas City is one of the few American cities where a single industry defines the skyline. The biggest presence is Marathon's Galveston Bay Refinery, which can run 631,000 barrels of crude oil every calendar day and stands as one of the two largest refineries in the United States, a scale it reached when Marathon folded its former Texas City refinery into the complex in 2018, per Marathon Petroleum. The site spreads across roughly 1,200 acres where Galveston Bay opens into the Houston Ship Channel, and no employer in town comes close to it: about 1,550 full time workers plus thousands of contractors keep it running, per the refinery's Wikipedia profile.
A short distance down the waterfront, Valero's Texas City Refinery processes approximately 260,000 barrels per day of total throughput with a team of about 450 employees, per Valero. And the port that moves all of that product is a heavyweight in its own right. The Port of Texas City handled 52.6 million short tons of cargo in 2008, ranking 14th among United States ports and 3rd in Texas that year, with petroleum and petrochemical shipments making up nearly all of the tonnage, per the port's Wikipedia entry.
Equipment at that scale never really rests. Cooling towers turn through the Gulf summer, charge pumps run around the clock, and loading arms and conveyors follow ship schedules, not business hours. When one gear drive in that chain fails, the cost is measured by the hour, which is exactly the problem our shop was built to solve.
What Texas City sends us
Rebuilds matched to refining and marine cargo work.
The mix of equipment we see from Texas City follows the city's industry. From the refinery side it is industrial gearbox rebuilds on cooling tower fan drives that live in wet Gulf air, gearboxes on process and transfer pumps, and mixer and agitator reducers from treatment and blending service. Humid, salt heavy coastal air is brutal on housings, seals, and journals, so we magnaflux every component, regrind or build up worn shafts, and replace bearings and seals rather than gamble on them. Our pump rebuild bench handles the rotating element itself when the whole pump comes in with the drive.
From the docks and terminals it is crane and hoist drives, winch drives, and conveyor reducers, plus crane wheels that need to be reground true. Many of those units are decades old with no OEM support left, which is where our gear cutting department earns its keep: we measure the worn gearing and cut new gears to match, no factory drawings required. Older equipment with poured bearings goes to our babbitt bearing bench, poured and machined to size in the same building. One crew owns your unit from teardown to test run, so nothing sits on a truck between vendors.
Why plants call Houston first
Everything happens on one bench, under one warranty.
No prints
Reverse engineered gearing
Legacy dock cranes and older refinery drives often outlive their manufacturers. We cut new gears from measurements of the worn parts themselves.
Up to 50%
Savings versus OEM
A complete rebuild can cost as little as half the OEM purchase price, and every unit returns with an up to 24 month workmanship warranty.
Any hour
24 hour emergency line
Crash calls get answered at night, on weekends, and on holidays. We have returned failed units to service in as little as 5 days.
Straight answers
How we earn Texas City work without a storefront here.
We will not show you invented testimonials or pretend we keep an office off Loop 197. Solution Gear Co. works out of one shop at 8449 West Bellfort Ave in southwest Houston, and every Texas City job runs on a ship in and pickup model: our crew collects the unit from your plant, or you ship it to us free, and it comes back rebuilt, test run, and warrantied. That model is how we have served Gulf Coast plants for over 20 years, and it means your gearbox is never handed to a subcontractor or a satellite crew we do not supervise.
The proof we offer is the process itself. Your free inspection report shows you photographs and measurements of every worn component before you approve a dime of repair work, and the firm quote you sign is the price you pay. If you want to see the caliber of work first, our gallery shows real units on our floor, before and after.
Getting your unit to us
About 42 miles door to door.
From our shop, the run to Texas City takes roughly 45 to 55 minutes: Beltway 8 East, then Interstate 45 South toward the bay, about 42 miles in total. That distance shapes the whole service model. Pickup is a same day local drive, not a freight booking, and our crew brings the crating and rigging to move a multi ton reducer without tying up your maintenance team. For planned outages we schedule pickup around your window, stage parts in advance, and hold the return date. For emergencies we roll as soon as you call 713 270 6000, any hour of any day. Shipping both directions costs you nothing, whether the unit rides on our truck or yours.
Texas City questions
What maintenance leads here ask us first.
Do you pick up failed gearboxes from Texas City plants?
Yes. Our own crew drives to your site, handles the crating and rigging, and hauls the unit back to our Houston shop at no charge. Texas City is about 42 miles from our door, roughly 45 to 55 minutes via Beltway 8 and Interstate 45, so pickup is a local run rather than a freight booking. Delivery back to your gate is free as well.
Can you rebuild the cooling tower and pump gearboxes common in Texas City refineries?
Yes. Cooling tower fan drives and pump gearboxes are two of the most common units on our bench. We tear each one down, magnaflux the gears and housing, cut new gears when needed, regrind journals, fit OEM bearings and new seals, then test run the unit before it ships back with an up to 24 month workmanship warranty.
How fast can you get a Texas City line running again after a gearbox failure?
We answer emergency calls 24 hours a day and have rebuilt failed units and returned them to service in as little as 5 days. Call 713 270 6000 at any hour and we start on a recovery plan right away, including immediate pickup from your plant.
What does a gearbox rebuild cost for a Texas City facility?
Every job is quoted after a free teardown and inspection, so the diagnosis costs you nothing. You approve a firm quote before repair work begins, and a complete rebuild can save you up to 50 percent versus the OEM purchase price. Pickup and shipping both ways are free.
Do you work on drives from the Port of Texas City docks?
Yes. Crane and hoist drives, winch drives, and conveyor reducers from dock and terminal service are all equipment we rebuild, and when a legacy drive has no OEM support left we reverse engineer the gearing from the worn parts themselves.
Get a fast quote on your Texas City gearbox repair.
Send us the nameplate and a photo, or just call. Free pickup from your plant, free inspection with a full condition report, free shipping both ways, and an up to 24 month warranty on the rebuild. Email Shop@sgearbox.com and we reply fast, often the same day.
Around the bay
More Gulf Coast service areas.
Texas City anchors our Galveston County service area, and every county and city we cover statewide is listed on the Texas gearbox repair hub. Across the causeway, we handle port and dry dock gear drives in Galveston. Up the ship channel, our La Porte page covers the Battleground industrial district, and our home turf is detailed on the Houston gearbox repair page. Down the coast, we also serve Freeport and the Brazoria County chemical corridor.