History

About Shape Corp.
Founded in 1974, Shape has over 1,300 associates and five sister companies. Shape’s original focus was producing custom rollformed parts. Today, Shape is a leader in rollforming, welding and assembling ultra high-strength steel. This gives customers in many industries lightweight, high-performance products at competitive costs.

Shape is a global leader in impact energy management systems and advanced rollforming and is North Americas top automotive bumper manufacturer. As the worlds only full-service bumper systems supplier providing design, testing, manufacturing and more, Shape is spread across the globe with 14 offices, eight manufacturing facilities plus six manufacturing alliances, two tech centers and a fitness facility.

Shape is proud of our history, reputation, and the associates who built Shape. Our phenomenal growth and excellent reputation results from Shape’s ability to keep commitments.

Business Unit Structure
In January 1998, Shape developed four business units and has since expanded into eight. Business units provide dedicated service to customers and industries. The business units correspond to the customers served by each and is led by a vice president and supported by an HR representative.

In the summer of 2002, manufacturing resources were divided into cells. The cells are staffed with manufacturing associates and dedicated technical experts in maintenance, tool and die, rollforming, manufacturing engineering, etc.

Also, there are shared support services working for all of the business units, including: finance, information systems, communications, corporate quality systems, training, safety and research and development.

Who owns Shape?
As in the beginning, Shape remains a privately held company. The original owners are still actively involved in guiding Shape down the path of continued growth.

Sister Companies
Shape, the first of several companies, now has five sister companies. Each company is operated independently, although they share common ownership. The capabilities and services of the sister companies complement the work performed by Shape Corp. Many of these companies are suppliers to Shape.
Learn more about our family of companies