CRC Industries is a manufacturer and distributor of industrial chemicals for maintenance

Maintenance, Repair and Operations

Maintenance, repair, and operations or maintenance, repair, and overhaul involves fixing any sort of mechanical or electrical device should it become out of order or broken...

 and repair of marine, electrical, industrial, automotive and aviation equipment.

CRC is headquartered in Warminster, Pennsylvania, and markets products through subsidiaries in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

, Belgium

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

, and New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

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The company was founded in 1958 by Charles J. Webb II and Norman Larsen

Norm Larsen

Norman B. Larsen was an industrial chemist whose most famous invention is WD-40. Born in Chicago in the 1920s, he had an insatiable desire to create things that would help make life easier for people...

 as Corrosion Reaction Consultants, Inc to produce an anti-corrosion and lubricant spray

Penetrating oil

Penetrating oil, also known as penetrating fluid, is very low-viscosity oil. It can be used to free rusted mechanical parts so that they can be removed, because it can penetrate into the narrow space between the threads of two parts. It can also be used as a general-purpose lubricant, a cleaner,...

, 5-56. The company has been owned by Berwind Group since 1981.