Crane Pest Control

Crane Pest Control is a commercial and public health pest management company serving the Greater Bay Area from San Francisco since 1930. It builds custom pest programmes for commercial and public sector clients around science-based Integrated Pest Management (IPM) - prevention, monitoring and targeted treatment - rather than scheduled spraying, in order to meet regulatory and audit standards such as LEED, AIB, Silliker, FDA and USDA. The firm is one of the largest providers of commercial and public health pest management in Northern California.

Its work spans ten or more cities, including San Jose, Oakland, Sacramento, Monterey, Palo Alto, Hayward, Gilroy, Santa Rosa and Union City. Client sectors range from restaurants, hotels and hospitals to biotech laboratories, food processing plants, airports, defence installations, apartments, universities and warehousing. Technical disciplines covered include entomology, pest prevention and monitoring, targeted treatment and regulatory compliance.

Entomologists are embedded in each service sector, and the company runs an in-house training programme intensive enough to satisfy state annual continuing education requirements without outside courses. Median staff tenure is nine years. Crane Pest Control operates as a locally focused Bay Area team within the Rollins, Inc. group, having been acquired in January 2009. The company states that protecting places where technicians and customers live, work and play is its first priority.