ABOUT SHEPHERD

Shepherd Caster is a leading designer and manufacturer of cutting edge mobility solutions for a variety of OEM markets. For over 55 years, we have prided ourselves on responding to our customers’ needs with outstanding quality, on-time delivery, and excellent value at competitive prices. Our casters, found throughout a variety of industries including medical, store fixtures, electronic equipment, material handling and institutional, have long been a benchmark for quality and design in the industry. We have an experienced salesforce and international distributor network ready to assist you in finding the caster that is best suited for your mobility needs. If the right caster is not available among our thousands of standard products, we have the design expertise, manufacturing knowledge, and capabilities to create a custom solution to meet your needs.

Shepherd’s HISTORY

In 1945, George Shepherd had a problem. While playing bridge with his friends and family, he found it difficult to get comfortable while sitting. The chairs in those days were not designed for moving on carpeting. He set out to design a chair with casters. After many years of designing, prototyping and testing, the original Shepherd Planet Ball Caster was born. This began a legacy of well-engineered, high-quality Shepherd casters.

The first die cast twin wheel, the Pacer, was put into production at Shepherd in 1976. This product allowed us to expand our market presence beyond home furnishings and into the growing office seating market.

As mobility became increasingly important in everyday life, we continued to expand into light industrial, store fixture, and appliance markets with several lines of single wheel casters. From there, our product line has further expanded to include casters for the medical and food service marketplace.

In 2001, Shepherd purchased Bassick Casters to expand into the business machine, material handling and MRO markets.

A subsequent 2008 joint aquisition of the Faultless brand allowed Shepherd to continue to expand our product line and further penentrate the material handling and business machine markets.

Today, along with many other new and innovative designs that have been developed for customers, all of these casters are still in production at Shepherd Caster.