CRC Industries
CRC Industries is a manufacturer and distributor of industrial chemicals for maintenance and repair of marine, electrical, industrial, automotive and aviation equipment.[1][2]
It was founded in 1958 after a verbal agreement between Rocket Chemical, the predecessor of the WD-40 Company, and Charles J. Webb II to distribute WD-40 fell apart. Webb then set up a competitor company in Philadelphia, Corrosion Reaction Consultants, Inc., and hired away Rocket president Norman Larsen to lead it.[3] In 1960 it consisted of Larsen, two chemists and five staff.[4] Its first product was CRC Corrosion Inhibitor, also called 5–56.[3]
The company has been owned by Berwind Corporation since 1981.[3]
CRC's manufacturing is headquartered in Warminster, Pennsylvania with the corporate office in Horsham, Pennsylvania. It markets products through subsidiaries in the United States, Australia, Germany,[5] Belgium, United Kingdom, China and New Zealand.[1][2]
Their facilities in Warminster include a private railroad spur, served by the New Hope Railroad. Traffic on the spur constitutes a sizable portion of the railroad's freight traffic; CRC Industries is their largest freight customer.
References
- ^ a b CRC Industries on Berwind Corporation website, retrieved 2011-04-04
- ^ a b "Company Overview of CRC Industries, Inc". Bloomberg. Retrieved January 29, 2016.
- ^ a b c "The CRC Story" (PDF). CRC Industries. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 4, 2006.
- ^ Industrial Research Laboratories of the United States (10th ed.). National Academies. 1960. p. 129.
- ^ Germany Office