CRC, founded in 1958, is a corrosion reaction consultant company. At that time, it only provided a single product: CRC corrosion inhibitor, which was later 5-56 multi-purpose anti-rust lubricant.

Today, CRC Industry is a global supplier of special chemicals, producing more than 1,300 products to meet the special needs of the automotive, marine, rail transit, hardware, electronics, industrial and aerospace markets. CRC provides thoughtful services to manufacturers and distributors in the Americas, Europe, South America, Africa and the Pan Pacific.

Discover opportunities

The story of CRC began in the spring of 1958. Charles J. Weber II, a successful wool industry entrepreneur, intends to expand his business scope. He learned that the West Coast Rocket Chemical Company sold a new chemical anticorrosive agent, attracted by its sales potential. He came to California and entered into an oral agreement to commit to distributing the product in eastern Mississippi and Europe in exchange for equity in the company. He signed a check worth $54,000 and a train anticorrosive was transported to Philadelphia along the rails. Later, Rocket Chemical wanted to terminate the agreement. And their president, Norman Larson, the inventor of the anticorrosion agent, left the company for this dispute. Weber provided Larson with the opportunity to improve the product and once it was successful, he would work with him to start a new company.

Company establishment

Larson completed product improvements, reducing its flammability and making it more resistant to corrosion. So on October 6, 1958, a new company was officially established in Pennsylvania, named Corrosion Reaction Consultants, CRC, and began to produce 5-56 multi-purpose anti-rust lubricants .

Development of a complete product line

In 1963, for development, CRC moved to a leased building in Drechet, Pennsylvania. Soon, CRC decided to develop products specifically for special markets. Original products 5-56 have been re-formulated and new products have been developed to meet the needs of the automotive, industrial, electronics and aerospace markets.

By April 1974, CRC purchased a larger building in Worminster, Pennsylvania and moved it there; the current headquarters of CRC Industry.

Many years later, more products were developed. CRC now offers a full range of cleaners, lubricants, corrosion inhibitors, protective coatings, degreasers, greases, additives and special products designed for customers with specific maintenance and repair needs.

Development of CRC international market

As early as 1961, CRC began cooperation with European distributors, and in 1967, CRC Chemicals Europe was established in Brussels, Belgium. Initially, the concentrate products were mainly imported from the United States. In 1975, the company established a manufacturing plant in Zelai, Belgium.

In 1980, a larger factory was founded in Castle Hill in Australia. Today, CRC's main series of products can be produced and packaged in Australia's factories. By the 1990s, CRC had already conducted sales operations in more than 120 branches around the world. Since 1994, CRC has expanded its international horizon to establish operating institutions in the Asia-Pacific region, including the establishment of representative offices in Shanghai, China.

In October 2014, for business development, CRC established Xi'ans Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. in China.