Type Private Area served North America Founder I.D. Blumenthal | Revenue US$ 98.4 million Founded 1924 | |
Industry AutomotiveRubberChemicals Key people Mike Guggenheimer(President and CEO)Alan Blumenthal(Chairman) Subsidiaries Highway Safety Products PTY (Ltd), RSC Bio Solutions, LLC, OMEGA Processing Solutions, L.L.C. | ||
Radiator Specialty Company is a privately held automotive products company based in Charlotte, NC with manufacturing headquarters in Indian Trail, NC. It is one of the nation's top automotive products producers and the second-largest producer of ancillary radiator products in the United States and Canada.
The firm is currently based in a 80,000-square-foot (7,400 m2) facility in Indian Trail, NC. It has a total employment of 210 people. Its current President and CEO is John Huber.
The company was founded as Radiator Specialty Company in 1924 by I.D. Blumenthal, who began marketing a product called Solder Seal to fix leaky car radiators. He was joined by his younger brother Herman Blumenthal in 1933. RSC's products also include Gunk, a line of degreasers, and Liquid Wrench, a line of lubricants marketed as "application-specific" competitors to WD-40. The company adopted the name RSC Chemical Solutions in 2010.
The Blumenthal family have been responsible for significant philanthropic efforts in North Carolina, including substantial funding for the North Carolina Blumenthal Performing Arts Center in Charlotte.