CRTS, Inc. is headquartered northeast of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Sales offices are located in Canada, the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
As a spin-off of the former Commercial Resins Company, which was established in 1969 to service a growing pipeline industry, Commercial Resins pioneered the use of fusion-bonded epoxy (FBE) as a superior method of coating line pipe girth welds for protection against corrosion. The Company continues to work on developing new, more effective methods of protecting steel from corrosion.
The technologies, services and products developed by CRTS and its predecessor over the past three decades have been used to protect all types of pipelines including natural gas, crude oil, potable water, sewer and salt water. In addition to coating line pipe, rebar coating plants developed by Commercial Resins Company and now CRTS since the mid 1970s have protected bridges, parking garages, water treatment plants, piers and homes around the world.
CRTS holds exclusive use of thirteen patents awarded by the United States and twenty patents awarded by other countries. Most of the significant patents pertain to the internal robotics used for the cleaning and application of coating products (FBE, liquid epoxies, plural component liquids, etc.) on internal pipeline welds.
The company specializes in the application of corrosion coatings to internal field girth welds. CRTS pioneered robotic internal field coating and is able to perform robotic inspections of internally coated field joints, real time close up video, coating thickness measurements and holiday detection of a coated internal field joint.