Crane Co.

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The Crane Company NYSE: CR is an American industrial products company based in Stamford, Connecticut. Founded as Crane Brass & Bell Foundry in 1855, by Richard Teller Crane, the company is best known to the consumer public as a large manufacturer of vending machines. Their famous National brand includes glassfront vending machines and cold food vending machines. The company also engineers and manufactures industrial equipment. Among the industries that the company serves includes: chemical industries, commercial construction, food and beverage, general and commercial aviation, and power generation. The company was one of the leading manufacturers of bathroom fixtures until 1985, when that division was sold off; it now operates as Crane Plumbing LLC.

[edit] Products

Controls (diagnostic, measurement, and control devices)
Industrial:
- Aerospace components (sensing and control systems)
- Engineered materials (plumbing supplies and lined-piping products)
- Fluid handling equipment (valves and pumps)
Merchandising systems (vending machines)
The Cranes Meridian Calendar (automated wall chart)
General Cranes (for some builders)

[edit] Subsidiaries

Crane Aerospace
- Burbank (Hydro-Aire)
- Elyria (Lear Romec)
- Lynnwood (Eldec)

Crane Composites
- Florence (Lasco)
- Grand Junction (Sequentia)
- Joliet (Kemlite)
- Jonesboro (Kemlite)
- Polyflon

Crane Electronics
- Albuquerque (General Technology Corporation)
- Beverly (Signal Technology)
- Chandler (Signal Technology)
- Fort Walton Beach (Keltec)
- Redmond (Interpoint)
- Taiwan (Interpoint)

Controls
- Azonix
- Barksdale
- Crane Environmental
- Dynalco
- WMS

Fluid Handling
- Crane Australia
- Crane Stockham Valve Ltd. (Belfast)
- Crane Limited
- Crane Process Flow Technologies (CPFT)
- Crane Pumps and Systems (CP&S)
- Crane Supply
- Crane Valves North America (CVNA)
- Pacific Valves
- Resistoflex Industrial
- Valve Services
- Xomox

Merchandising Systems
- Automatic Products
- CashCode
- Chippenham
- Dixie-Narco
- National Rejectors (NRI)
- St Louis (National Vendors)
- Streamware
- Telequip