Lufkin Industries, Inc. engages in the provision of rod lift products and technologies. It offers surface pumping units, downhole pumps, automation, progressing cavity pumps (PCPs), hudraulic lift, and oilfield services. The company was founded by Joseph Hubert Kurth, Sr., Frank Kavanaugh, Sr., Frank Kavanaugh, Jr., Eli Wiener, and Simon Wood Henderson, Sr. in 1902 and is headquartered in Missouri City, TX.