Rigid Global Componentswas launched in December 1999 as a subsidiary of Rigid Global Buildings in Houston, Texas. Fred Campana and Alex Ghodsi originally founded Rigid as an engineering company engineering complex and simple metal buildings with the expectation to one day have their own metal building manufacturing facility. Once their dream of having their own metal building manufacturing facility became a reality they realized it was only natural to also offer a complete line of metal building components including metal roofs, metal wall panels and secondary structural framing including cees, zees, purlins and girts and thus Rigid Global Components was born.