Founded by the Pearce family in 1917 as a general oilfield repair shop, Texas Iron Works has since grown into a developer of tools and solutions used in the search for oil and gas. Its products include liner hangers, liner packers, setting tools, retrievable packers, tubing seals, production packers, valves and a variety of window-cutting devices. The company also owns patents on several oil and gas technologies. Texas Iron Works has headquarters in Houston and operates field offices in Alaska, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Wyoming, as well as Canada, Mexico, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East. The company s manufacturing facilities are certified according to ISO 9001 standards.