For more than 40 years, Thrustmaster of Texas, Inc. has been designing and manufacturing high quality marine propulsion equipment for vessels of all types. We have grown into a leading supplier of thrusters ranging from 75 kW to 8 MW, serving customers all over the world.

Our headquarters in Houston, Texas consists of the largest thruster manufacturing factory in the world, with complete fabrication, machining, assembly and testing carried out at the facility. All thrusters are designed in-house by a complete engineering department for mechanical, hydraulic, electrical and electronic design.

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, China, Dubai, and Brazil.

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.

Thrustmaster maintains its own sales offices in North America and a growing network of carefully selected and well-trained agents all over the world.

Conveniently located in Northwest Houston on sixty acres, we have over 200,000 square feet of manufacturing space with total in house fabrication, machining, assembly, inspection and testing capabilities.  Included is over 25,000 square feet of warehouse space where we stock a large inventory of spare parts available for same day shipment in most cases.  All products are manufactured in strict adherence to ISO-9001; 2015 edition standards.  For shipping and handling of our materials and thrusters we have two 15-ton, three 30-ton, two 50-ton, a 100-ton with 30-ton runner overhead cranes, and a 35-ton portable crane to move products safely and quickly about the facility.

In addition to our manufacturing and warehouse area we also have over 40,000 square feet of office space for our Administration and Engineering services.

Thrustmaster is a vertically integrated manufacturer with a spare parts warehouse that uses bar-coding and par-level ordering to maintain manufactured and OEM parts on the shelves.

Employing more than 100 skilled technicians, assemblers, welders, and machinists Thrustmasters offices house PhD and MSc engineers along with expanded support personnel having experience dating back over half a century in the history of marine applications.