Fascinating Facts
Fascinating facts about WD-40 Company
Fascinating Facts
Fascinating facts about WD-40 Company
Six fascinating things you should know about WD-40 Company
Working in a small lab in San Diego, California, it took Rocket Chemical Company’s founders 40 attempts to get their water displacing formula worked out. But they must have got it right in a big way, because the original secret formula for WD-40® – which stands for Water Displacement perfected on the 40th try—is still in use today. Here are six things you may not know about WD-40 Company.
Top secret Formula
The formula for WD-40® Multi-Use Product is a trade secret so protected the company never even filed for a patent. In fact, only a single person knows every exact ingredient that goes into the famous formula.
A Global Company
While WD-40 Multi-Use Product is known around the world, the company behind the brand remains an independent public company with just under 700 employees who live and work in more than 16 different countries.
176 countries
You can find WD-40 Company products from San Diego to Shanghai. From London to Buenos Aires. From Sydney to Moscow. We’re everywhere. Our brands are sold in over 176 countries and territories around the world.
2000 uses
Our WD-40 Multi-Use Product has more than 2000 documented uses. One of the most memorable…a bus driver in Asia once used WD-40 Multi-Use product to remove a python from the undercarriage of his bus.
Distribution
Because WD-40 Multi-Use Product has more than 2000 documented uses, our distribution network includes 62 unique trade channels including hardware stores, automotive stores, grocery stores, sporting goods stores, drug stores, plumbing supply stores and many more.
Doing the Right Thing
We are a values-driven organization and we have incorporated these values into every aspect of how we conduct our business. Our company has elected to use only the safest ingredients in all our products which meet the highest standards for consumer safety.
