Lufkin Industries held a ground-breaking ceremony for the company’s automation headquarters recently at Lakeview Business Park in Missouri City. The company, which makes products for the oil and gas sector, purchased the 6.2-acre site at Lakeview Business Park where they will build a 40,000-square-foot facility.
Shown tossing dirt at the ground breaking for Lufkin Automation’s new Headquarters in Missouri City’s Lakeview Business Park are Joe Burch, Lufkin Industries, Mark Crews, vice president and general m anager of Lufkin Industries Oilfield Division, Fort Bend County Commissioner Grady Prestage, Jay Glick, president and CEO of Lufkin Industries, Mayor Allen Owen, Dewayne Atwell, general manager of Lufkin Automation, Vincent Cordova, manufacturing manager of Lufkin Automation, Scott Semlinger of Lufkin Industries, and Bobby Marshall, City Council member. Photo courtesy of Missouri City
When completed in approximately six months, the site will replace the company’s nearby location off Beltway 8 in Houston. A total of 45 employees will relocate to the Missouri City site.
“I believe this site will enhance the Lufkin brand in the Houston metropolitan area,” said Lufkin Industries President and CEO Jay Glick. “Its design and location will help us attract and retain the skilled workforce necessary to support the high-tech product lines produced by Lufkin Automation.”
Mayor Allen Owen welcomed the company to Missouri City at the ground-breaking ceremony with a promise.
“I’ll make one commitment to you: You’re going to be glad you came to Missouri City because our motto is one we’re very proud of—it’s the “Show Me City”—and we’re going to show you why you are glad you came here,” said Missouri City Mayor Allen Owen.
“We liked the work that Trammell Crow did on the business park and the fact that it provides convenient access to Beltway 8, US Highway 90A and the Fort Bend Parkway Toll Road that will meet our shipping needs. It’s a good fit for our business,” said Dewayne Atwell, general manager of Lufkin Automation.
The facility in Missouri City will manufacture automation equipment for artificially lifted oil and gas wells including rod pump controllers, variable speed drives, progressive cavity pump controllers, injection well controllers and motor control panels among others.
