Powell Industries, Inc. engages in the development, design, manufacture and provision of services of custom-engineered products and systems. The company is headquartered in Houston, Texas and currently employs 1,935 full-time employees. The firm distributes, controls and monitors the flow of electrical energy and provides protection to motors, transformers and other electrically powered equipment. Its principal products include integrated power control room substations (PCRs), custom-engineered modules, electrical houses (E-Houses), traditional and arc-resistant distribution switchgear and control gear, medium-voltage circuit breakers, monitoring and control communications systems, motor control centers, switches and bus duct systems. Its products are designed for application voltages ranging from approximately 480 volts to 38,000 volts and are used in oil and gas refining, onshore and offshore oil and gas production, petrochemical, liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals, pipeline, terminal, mining and metals, light rail traction power, electric utility, pulp and paper and other industrial markets.