1853 → today

Our History

DeWalch Technologies

Company milestones since founding in 1982.

  1. 1982
    DeWalch Technologies milestone, 1982

    Don DeWalch learns of opportunity for an improved locking system and collaborates with Binz DeWalch who begins development

  2. 1985
    DeWalch Technologies milestone, 1985

    DeWalch Technologies, Inc. chartered with the Secretary of State of Texas

  3. 1988
    DeWalch Technologies milestone, 1988

    Patent 4,742,703 "Cylinder Lock and Key with Rotating Elements" issued to Binz and Don DeWalch

  4. 1990
    DeWalch Technologies milestone, 1990

    First Manufacturing Plant purchased

  5. 1991
    DeWalch Technologies milestone, 1991

    First large scale delivery of products to Houston Lighting and Power

  6. 1996
    DeWalch Technologies milestone, 1996

    First international sales to Mexico electric utility Comisión Federal de Electricidad

  7. 1999
    DeWalch Technologies milestone, 1999

    Biotech division created to address needs for better automation in Life Sciences Market

  8. 2010
    DeWalch Technologies milestone, 2010

    Development of Gas to Liquids technology begins

  9. 2015
    DeWalch Technologies milestone, 2015

    Move to Larger Facility

  10. 2016
    DeWalch Technologies milestone, 2016

    Next generation Electronic Lock and Key introduced to Electric Utility Market

  11. 2022
    DeWalch Technologies milestone, 2022

    Texcast acquired — bringing a 40-year investment casting foundry into the DeWalch family of companies

  12. 2026
    DeWalch Technologies milestone, 2026

    G2Fuels founded to commercialize gas-to-liquids technology, converting natural gas into high-value liquid hydrocarbons

Family heritage

Earlier ventures from the DeWalch, Binz, and Carter families.

  1. 1980
    Black Stone Minerals Company

    Successor to W.T. Carter and Brother. Traded on the NYSE (BSM); the largest mineral owner in the U.S. with 20M+ acres

  2. 1983
    Weslayan Bank — Houston
  3. 1973
    San Felipe National Bank — Houston
  4. 1948
    Fannin Bank — Houston
  5. 1934
    Southern Electric Supply Company — 6 locations in Texas
  6. 1927
    W.T. Carter Field — Houston

    Houston Airport Corporation, now Hobby Airport

  7. 1901
    Houston bank lineage
    • 1901 South Texas National Bank
    • 1905 Union Bank and Trust
    • 1910 Union National Bank
    • 1953 Texas National Bank
    • 1964 Texas Commerce Bank

    Carter and Binz families were founding or significant shareholders of each

  8. Early 1900s
    Worth Made Clothing Company — Ft. Worth
  9. 1900
    Schumacher Bank — La Grange
  10. Early 1900s
    Houston Car Wheel & Machine — Houston

    Where Howard Hughes developed the first drill bit

  11. 1898
    Moscow, Camden and San Augustine Railroad — Camden
  12. 1876
    W.T. Carter and Brother Lumber Company — Polk County
  13. 1868
    The Schuhmacher Company — La Grange & Houston

    Grocery distribution

  14. 1853
    Binz Brewery — Sheboygan, WI & Chicago, IL
  15. Late 1800s
    Telelectric — Houston

    Wholesale electric supplier