110 mi
Under two hours out
Port Arthur sits about 110 miles east of our shop at 8449 West Bellfort Ave, roughly 1 hour 45 minutes by way of State Highway 73 and Interstate 10.
Port Arthur, TX · Industrial gearbox repair
Industrial Gearbox Repair in Port Arthur, Texas
Solution Gear Co. provides industrial gearbox repair for Port Arthur, Texas from a family owned shop at 8449 West Bellfort Ave in southwest Houston, about 110 miles west of the refinery row, roughly 1 hour 45 minutes by way of Interstate 10 and State Highway 73. The distance never touches your budget because shipping is free in both directions on every Port Arthur job. Your unit travels on a carrier we arrange and pay for, gets a free teardown and magnaflux inspection the day it lands, and returns rebuilt, test run, and backed by up to a 24 month workmanship warranty. When a drive drops out mid turnaround, our emergency line answers around the clock.
Solution Gear Co. is a family owned Houston gearbox repair company serving Port Arthur's refineries, petrochemical units, and LNG and marine terminals. Free shipping both ways, a free inspection with a written quote before any work is approved, savings of up to 50 percent versus a new OEM unit, and 24 hour emergency response, with every rebuild stronger than OEM.
Refinery row on the Sabine
Three refineries and a new LNG giant share one waterfront.
No American city refines more crude on a single site than Port Arthur. As of January 1, 2025, Motiva's Port Arthur refinery became the largest single refinery in the United States by operable crude distillation capacity at 640,500 barrels per calendar day, moving ahead of Marathon's Galveston Bay plant, per the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Motiva itself puts total throughput at 730,000 barrels per day on a site that has grown from 25 acres in 1903 to 1,400 acres today, per Motiva Enterprises.
Motiva has neighbors of the same species. Valero's Port Arthur refinery turns 435,000 barrels per day of heavy sour crude into gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel with roughly 770 employees, and it houses one of Valero's two renewable diesel plants, with a sustainable aviation fuel project completed in the fourth quarter of 2024, per Valero Energy. The TotalEnergies Port Arthur refinery adds another 238,000 barrels per day and is integrated with the company's Gulf Coast petrochemicals platform, per TotalEnergies.
Now the waterfront is growing again. Golden Pass LNG, the QatarEnergy and ExxonMobil export terminal at Sabine Pass valued at more than 10 billion dollars and sized for 18 million tonnes per year, achieved first LNG production on March 30, 2026 and shipped its first cargo in April 2026, with trains 2 and 3 starting up through 2026 and 2027, per Golden Pass LNG. Every barrel processed and every tonne loaded here moves through gear drives, and in a city with this much rotating iron, a dead reducer is a production event, not a maintenance note.
Matched to the local iron
The drives we rebuild for Port Arthur's process units and terminals.
Three world scale refineries generate a steady stream of the work our bench was built for: cooling tower gearboxes eaten alive by wet gulf air, mixer and agitator drives from tanks and reactors, pump gearboxes and rotating equipment, and the parallel shaft, right angle, worm, and planetary reducers that fill every process unit between the crude charge and the loading rack. The petrochemical side that runs alongside the TotalEnergies refinery adds high torque agitation and compounding drives, and where extrusion equipment appears, extruder gearbox rebuilds and screw and barrel work are specialties we handle in house.
The terminals ask for something different. LNG and marine cargo operations run on crane wheels we machine back to true, hoist and winch drives, conveyor and bulk handling reducers, and hydraulic cylinders we rebuild and re chrome. Behind all of it sits the capability that separates a gear shop from a swap shop: when a gear set is obsolete, we cut replacement gears in house, reverse engineered from your worn originals, and we pour and machine babbitt bearings to size on the same floor.
Why ship 110 miles
One bench, one crew, and a return date you can hold us to.
Port Arthur plants live and die by turnaround windows, and a turnaround is precisely when OEM repair queues stretch and contractor schedules slip. Our answer is structural, not motivational. Solution Gear Co. is family owned and has been rebuilding gearboxes for over 20 years, and every step happens inside one Houston building. The person who quotes your reducer machines its shafts, cuts its gears, and stands at the test stand when it runs. No broker, no subcontractor chain, no date that belongs to somebody else.
This city also runs old equipment. A refining site that started on 25 acres in 1903 has drives in service whose manufacturers dissolved decades ago, and that is where an independent shop earns its freight. We reverse engineer gearing from worn parts when drawings no longer exist, and we upgrade materials and heat treatment where the failure pattern justifies it, which is what rebuilt stronger than OEM means in practice. The commercial math holds too: up to 50 percent savings versus a new OEM unit, with up to a 24 month workmanship warranty on the rebuild.
Straight answers
No invented reviews. A free inspection you can judge us by.
We could decorate this page with glowing Port Arthur testimonials. We will not, because we do not fabricate reviews or publish customer names without permission, full stop. Here is the honest shape of the relationship instead: we are a Houston shop, there is no Port Arthur storefront, and your gearbox reaches us by freight carrier on our account, both directions, every time.
The evidence we offer a first time customer is the inspection itself. Send the unit and we tear it down, magnaflux the gears and housing, measure the journals and bores, photograph what we find, and put a written quote in front of you before a single repair operation begins. Decline it and the unit comes home at our expense with no invoice attached. A shop that inspects for free and shows its findings has nowhere to hide, and that is the point.
How service works
Highway 73 to Interstate 10, with freight on our account.
$0
Freight, both directions
We book the carrier and pay the shipping on every Port Arthur job, out and back, and we guide crating and rigging so heavy units travel without damage.
24 hr
Emergency answering
The crash line is staffed around the clock. Transit from the Sabine is a few hours, and rebuilt units have gone back into service in as little as 5 days.
Call in the morning and a carrier can be at your dock that day. Teardown photos and a written quote follow the inspection, and once you approve, the same crew rebuilds, tests, and crates the unit for the ride back east.
Port Arthur FAQ
What Port Arthur maintenance teams ask us.
How do I get a gearbox from Port Arthur to your Houston shop?
You call or email, and we take it from there. A freight carrier on our account picks up at your dock, and the route back west runs State Highway 73 to Interstate 10, about 110 miles and roughly 1 hour 45 minutes. Your crew only drains the unit and stages it. We schedule the pickup, walk you through crating, help coordinate rigging on heavy reducers, and pay the freight in both directions, out and back.
Do you rebuild the reducer types running in Port Arthur refinery service?
Yes. Cooling tower gearboxes, mixer and agitator drives off tanks and reactors, pump gearboxes, and the parallel shaft, right angle, worm, and planetary reducers found through every process unit. We work on Falk, Lufkin, Flender, Dodge, SEW Eurodrive, Hansen, David Brown, Westinghouse, and most other nameplates, and when the original manufacturer is gone we reverse engineer new gearing directly from your worn parts.
Can you service equipment from the LNG and marine terminals near Sabine Pass?
Yes. Terminal and marine duty equipment is regular work on our bench: crane wheels machined back to true, hoist and winch drives, conveyor and bulk handling reducers, and hydraulic cylinders rebuilt and re chromed. Every rebuilt unit is test run before it ships back east, so it goes from the truck to the machine, not to a troubleshooting session.
What does a rebuild cost for a Port Arthur gearbox?
We quote after teardown, not from a phone description, because the honest number lives inside the housing. The teardown, magnaflux inspection, and written quote are free, freight is free both ways, and you can decline the work with no charge. When you approve it, a rebuild can run up to 50 percent less than a new OEM unit and ships back with up to a 24 month workmanship warranty.
A drive just failed mid turnaround. How fast can you respond?
Call the emergency line, which answers 24 hours a day. Freight from Port Arthur reaches our bench in hours, an emergency unit goes straight to teardown and inspection on arrival, and on crash jobs we have put rebuilt gearboxes back in service in as little as 5 days, test run and under warranty.
Golden Triangle coverage
Nearby coverage along the Sabine and the coast.
Port Arthur anchors the southern end of our Golden Triangle coverage, and the full county picture, with drive distances and the shipping model for the whole corridor, lives on the Jefferson County gearbox repair hub. Twenty miles north up US 69, our Beaumont page covers the ExxonMobil complex and the Port of Beaumont. Follow the Sabine upriver and you reach Orange, Texas, where we serve the plants along the state line, and across the border to the east we support the plants around Sulphur, Louisiana and the Lake Charles, Louisiana refining and chemical corridor. Our statewide footprint is mapped on the Texas service areas page, and every market we serve is listed at the Service Areas hub.
Put it on a truck. The rest is our problem.
Free freight both ways from Port Arthur, a free teardown and magnaflux inspection, and up to a 24 month warranty on every rebuild. Email a nameplate photo to Shop@sgearbox.com and we reply fast, often the same day, or call the shop directly.