Joe Bekker
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6900 Thrustmaster Drive
Houston, TX 77041
Telephone: 832 399 5187
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.ThrustmasterTexas.com
CEO/President: Joe Bekker
Number of Employees: 300
The Company:
Thrustmaster of Texas, Inc. manufactures heavy duty commercial marine propulsion and thrusters. The factory and production of all thrusters is based out of Houston, Texas with a global network of sales offices in Rotterdam, Singapore, Dubai, Brazil and India. A service office is located in Houma, Louisiana to assist offshore clients.
The Case:
Thrustmaster provides engineered thrusters (to shipyards) for barges, RoRo ferries, Tugs, etc. that are specially designed for shallow draft and brown water applications. All thrusters are developed in-house by a complete engineering department for mechanical, hydraulic, electrical and electronic design. Tooling includes machining and measuring equipment, CAD, vessel resistance and propulsion, 3D modeling and ANSYS Finite Element Analysis. The application of modal analysis, stress and strain analysis as well as rotor dynamic analysis of drive trains and transmissions are all fundamental to the reliability and quality of Thrustmaster’s products.
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Thrustmaster Drive Houston, TX 77041 Tel: (713) 937-6295 Email: [email protected] Website: www.thrustmaster.net CEO/President: Joe Bekker (As published in the August 2016 MN100 edition of Marine News
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a year of planning between DOEN’s Director Mark Peters, DOEN’s Director and Chief Engineer Timothy Udvary and Thrustmaster’s founder, president and CEO Joe Bekker. “DOEN approached Thrustmaster, and Thrustmaster acquired the exclusive rights for manufacturing the full range of [DOEN’s] products,” Bekker said
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August 2018 - Marine News page: 75, hydraulic, elec- trical and electronic design. Thrustmaster manufactures hy- CEO/President: draulic and mechanical tunnel/bow thrusters, azimuthing Joe Bekker thrusters, portable dynamic positioning systems, integrated hydraulic outboard propulsion units, underwater mount- able thrusters, inboard demountable
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August 2017 - Marine News page: 84develops Autodesk based solutions for the ship- Website: www.thrustmaster.net building and offshore industry including: ShipConstruc- CEO/President: Joe Bekker tor software, an AutoCAD based CAD/CAM product line; and EnterprisePlatform, a tool for sharing product THE COMPANY: data model information. Shipbuilder
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August 2016 - Marine News page: 82[email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: www.thrustmaster.net Website: www.sunymaritime.edu CEO/President: Joe Bekker CEO/President: RADM Michael Alfultis T C :HE OMPANY Thrustmaster builds a complete line of Z-Drive azimuth- ing thrusters from 500 HP to 4,000 HP
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August 2015 - Marine News page: 84department for mechanical, hydraulic, electrical and Website: www.thrustmaster.net electronic design. Tooling includes machining and mea- CEO/President: Joe Bekker suring equipment, CAD, vessel resistance and propulsion, 3D modeling and ANSYS Finite Element Analysis. The as well as a knuckle boom crane for
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September 2014 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 50of planning between DOEN’s Di- rector Mark Peters, DOEN’s Director and Chief Engineer Timothy Udvary and Thrustmaster’s founder, president and CEO Joe Bekker. “DOEN approached Thrustmaster, and Thrustmaster acquired the exclusive rights for manufacturing the full range of [DOEN’s] products,” Bekker
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August 2014 - Marine News page: 65Thrustmaster Drive Houston, TX 77041 Telephone: 832 399 5187 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.ThrustmasterTexas.com CEO/President: Joe Bekker Number of Employees: 300 The Company: Thrustmaster of Texas, Inc. manu- factures heavy duty commercial marine propulsion and thrusters. The
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November 2012 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 1212Maritime Reporter & Engineering News INTERVIEWJOE R. BEKKER, PRESIDENT, THRUSTMASTER Talk to Joe Bekker for five minutes and you know he?s living the ?American Dream.? Bekker, the founder, owner and president of Thrustmaster of Texas, came to Houston from The Netherlands in 1979 and has never looked back.
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November 2012 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 6in any form or by any means mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of the publishers.8INTERVIEW JOE BEKKER, THRUSTMASTERJoe Bekker has brought Thrustmaster of Texas from literally noth- ing to more than $150m per year. Here?s how. by Greg Trauthwein 24ON
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April 2012 - Marine News page: 73ings. Products: COMPAC, SXL, XL, RiverTough, Thor- Coat, ThorPlas. Thrustmaster of Texas P.O. Box 840189 Houston, TX 77284-0189 www.thrustmastertexas.com Joe Bekker tel: 713-937-6295 fax: 713-937-7962 email: [email protected] Descr: Thrusters and DPS propulsion solution Products: Hydraulic tunnel
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April 2011 - Marine News page: 53COMPAC, SXL, XL, Composite, Thor- Coat, ThorPlas Thrustmaster of Texas P.O. Box 840189 Houston, TX 77284-0189 www.thrustmastertexas.com Joe Bekker tel: 713-937-6295 fax: 713-937-7962 email: [email protected] Descr: Thrusters and DPS propulsion solution Products: Hydraulic tunnel
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January 2009 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 56462 2801, [email protected] Product: Diesel Engines Thrustmaster of Texas P.O. Box 840189, Houston, TX 77284-0189 www.thrustmastertexas.com Joe Bekker tel: 713-937-6295 email:[email protected] Descr: Thrusters and DPS Propulsion Solution EMD, Electro-Motive Diesel Inc, La Grange
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January 2008 - Marine News page: 55email:[email protected] Products: Marine generator sets and diesel propulsion engines. Houston, TX 77284-0189 www.thrustmastertexas.com Joe Bekker tel: 713-937-6295 fax: 713-937-7962 email:[email protected] Descr: Thrusters and DPS Propulsion Solution Products: Hydraulic Tunnel Thrusters