CRC Press

CRC Press

Parent company	Taylor and Francis
Status	Active
Founded	1973 (as a publishing house)
Country of origin	United States
Distribution	Worldwide
Nonfiction topics	Non-fiction technical books (engineering, science, mathematics, business and information technology)
Imprints	A K Peters, Productivity Press
Official website	www.crcpress.com/

The CRC Press, LLC is a publishing group which specializes in producing technical books. While many of their books relate to engineering, science and mathematics, their scope also includes books on business, forensics and information technology. CRC Press is now a subsidiary of Informa.

History

The CRC Press was originally founded as the Chemical Rubber Company (CRC), which supplied laboratory equipment to chemists. In 1913 the CRC offered a short (116-page) manual called the Rubber Handbook as an incentive to purchase one of their products. Since then the Rubber Handbook has evolved into the CRC's flagship book, the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. In 1973, in light of the success of its publishing ventures, the company changed its name to CRC Press, Inc, and exited the manufacturing business. In 1986 it was bought by the Times Mirror Company; in 1997/98 it became a publicly held company. In 2003 CRC became part of Taylor & Francis, which in 2004 became part of the UK publisher Informa.

See also

• Woodhead Publishing

External links

• CRC Press Website