MN 100: Thrustmaster of Texas

6900 Thrustmaster Drive
Houston, TX  77041
Telephone: (713) 937-6295
Website: www.thrustmaster.net
Email: [email protected]

CEO/President: Joe Bekker
Number of Employees: 300

The Company:
Thrustmaster of Texas, Inc. manufactures heavy-duty commercial marine propulsion and thrusters including waterjets, propulsion out drive units for barges, thru-hull azimuthing propulsion in the form of Z and L drives, retractable thrusters, transverse tunnel thrusters, and the patented Portable Dynamic Positioning System. The factory is based out of Houston, Texas with sales offices in Rotterdam, Singapore, Dubai, and Brazil. The company also has a service office in Houma, Louisiana to respond to our off-shore clients working out of that region.
 
The Case:
All products are developed in-house by a complete engineering department for mechanical, hydraulic, electrical and electronic design. Tooling includes state-of-the-art computerized machining and measuring equipment with software packages for Computer-Aided-Design (CAD), vessel resistance and propulsion, 3-D mathematical modeling and ANSYS Finite Element Analysis (FEA). The application of modal analysis, stress and strain analysis as well as rotor dynamic analysis of drive trains and transmissions are major fundamentals towards the reliability and quality of Thrustmaster’s products.