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| Parent company | Taylor & Francis |
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| Status | Active |
| Founded | 1903 (as Chemical Rubber Company) |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | Boca Raton, Florida |
| Distribution | Worldwide |
| Nonfiction topics | Technicaltextbooks (engineering, science, mathematics, business, information technology) |
| Imprints | Chapman & Hall, Productivity Press, Auerbach Publications[1] |
| Official website | www |
TheCRC Press is a publishingimprint principally for technical books. Many of its books are related toengineering,science andmathematics. Its scope also includes books onbusiness,forensics andinformation technology. In 2003 the imprint was acquired byTaylor & Francis, a subsidiary ofInforma. The CRC Press andRoutledge imprints are key components of Taylor & Francis'sacademic publishing.[2] As of 2025, the branding of CRC Press presents it as part of the Routledge branding.
The CRC Press originated as the publishing component of theChemical Rubber Company (CRC) in 1903 by brothers Arthur, Leo and Emanuel Friedman inCleveland, Ohio, based on an earlier enterprise by Arthur, who had begun selling rubber laboratory aprons in 1900.[3][4] The company gradually expanded to include sales of laboratory equipment tochemists. In 1913 the CRC offered a short (116-page) manual called theRubber Handbook as an incentive for any purchase of a dozen aprons.[4][5] Since then theRubber Handbook has evolved into the CRC's flagship book, theCRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics.[5] Another one of CRC's highly successful reference handbooks,CRC Standard Mathematical Tables, has sold over 2 million copies.[6]
In 1964, Chemical Rubber decided to focus on its publishing ventures, and in 1973 the company changed its name to CRC Press, Inc, and exited the manufacturing business, spinning off that line as the Lab Apparatus Company.[3][5]
In 1986 CRC Press was bought by theTimes Mirror Company.[7] Times Mirror began exploring the possibility of a sale of CRC Press in 1996, and in December announced the sale of CRC to Information Ventures.[8][9] In 2003, CRC became part ofTaylor & Francis, which in 2004 became part of the UK publisherInforma.[5][10]
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