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C. E. Shepherd Company is a Houston, Texas based manufacturing company founded in 1957 by Charles E. Shepherd. In the early days, Shepherd manufactured navigation buoys giving rise our to our slogan, "Wise Birds Settle on Shepherd Products." Since then we've grown and diversified (and changed our look a few times) but with the Shepherd family at the helm, we've never lost our focus on the high quality of our products or our commitment to providing first-rate service.Charles Shepherd developed a new embossed film technology to create a pebble-like surface on FRP surfaces such as the fiberglass panels commonly seen today in commercial kitchens and public wash room areas. In 1957, he founded C. E. Shepherd Company, Incorporated to manufacture his product. The following year, Shepherd, an avid water sportsman, expanded his business by designing and patenting a foam filled navigational buoy. This product gave us our first slogan, "Wise Birds Settle on Shepherd Products." Though Shepherd no longer manufactures buoys, the design remains the standard for use in all waterways under the jurisdiction of the US Army Corps of Engineers.Development of a pinless plastic hinge which becomes stronger with each flex (not weaker) in 1965 made C. E. Shepherd Company one of the largest injection molders in Texas. The 1960's also marked Shepherd Company’s entry into the industrial cooling tower market. Experimenting with materials to replace the traditional rot-prone wood cooling tower components, Shepherd designed and built the first fuse-bonded powder coating line for wire mesh and single strand wire. This revolutionary and highly effective process produces a fusion bond between the PVC coating and the steel core wire inside. The resulting product, Shepherd Slat Fill Hanger Grids, were quickly embraced as the standard for use in cooling towers throughout the country. Cooling tower components have since become a cornerstone of the company’s product mix and demand for Shepherd’s coated wire mesh steered the company in yet another direction.

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