Company History

Glacier Bay, Inc. engineers and manufactures high-performance thermal management and energy control systems  for marine, transportation, aerospace, military, medical, electronics and communications applications.

 

1990

Glacier Bay introduces the world's 1st refrigerator using non-ozone depleting HFC-134a.

 

1992

U.S. patent granted on the Arctic Air system which provides refrigeration,  freezing and air conditioning capacity from a single compressor.

 

1993

U.S. Patent granted on revolutionary "Spider Coil" evaporator for thermal storage holding plates.

1994

Glacier Bay, Boeing, General Motors, Aerojet General, Admiral, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory form a Dept. of Energy (DOE) funded consortium to facilitate the commercialization of Aerogel super-insulation materials.

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Westinghouse Corporation awards Glacier Bay contract to develop an ultra-high efficiency
hermetic brushless DC compressor
following a national vendor search.

 

1995


Cruising World Magazine finds Glacier Bay marine refrigeration systems "most energy efficient", "longest holdover" and "most stable temperatures", thus beating out competitors Sea Frost, Grunert, Technicold,Crosby, Technautics and others to win all categories in an extensive independent test.
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BARRIER 20 and BARRIER 30 Super Insulation Vacuum Panels introduced offering 4x the "R" value of traditional polyurethane foam.

Owens-Corning awards Glacier Bay exclusive distributorship of AURA SUPER INSULATION PANELS within the marine industry.

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Northrop-Grumman contracts Glacier Bay to produce a high efficiency, severe angle hermetic BLDC compressor.

 
1996

 

The Defense Advance Research Products Agency (DARPA) co-funds development of the Glacier Bay advanced "Environmental Control System for Hybrid & Electric Vehicles"

 

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PIVCO AS of Norway contracts Glacier Bay to provide air conditioning systems for their CITI electric cars.
 
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Glacier Bay introduces Premium Direct-Coupled marine refrigeration product line offering improved efficiency, lower maintenance and super-quiet operation
 
 
1997
IBM contracts with Glacier Bay to design and prototype the first direct evaporator cooling system, (MCU, Modular Cooling unit), for their new S/390 G-5 main -frame computer.
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Florida Power Research Center completes testing of Glacier Bay ECS Air Conditioning System in Coco, Florida.
 
 
1998
TPI and the North American Bus Industries (NABI) contracts Glacier Bay to optimize the Environmental Control System consisting of air conditioning and heating for their hybrid electric buses.
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Introduction of BARRIER Ultra-R, an advanced super vacuum insulation offering an "R" value of 50 per one inch thickness.
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Glacier Bay develops a cryogenic cascade cooling system for Hewlett Packard's Palo Alto research center.
 
1999
Osaka Chamber of Commerce invites Glacier Bay to present its technologies at the Global Venture Forum in Osaka, Japan.
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The Defense Advance Research Products Agency (DARPA) co-funds development of
the Glacier Bay 5 KW sensorless brushless DC motor controller.
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Glacier Bay and Tecumseh Corporation form an  alliance to develop advanced Brushless DC motor drive technologies.
 
2000

Alsius Corporation contracts Glacier Bay to develop the CoolGard 3000,  a medical device that cools the blood of head trauma patients through a heat exchange catheter. 

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Glacier Bay's BARRIER Ultra-R becomes the insulation of choice for numerous companies developing thermally efficient storage systems for the International Space Station.
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Glacier Bay forms the "Masterflux" division to market Brushless DC compressors, motors and controllers.
 

2001

 

L-3 Communications/Belgian Navy - Radome cooling system

 

2002

 

Sale of Masterflux production rights to Tecumseh Corporation.

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United Defense - Development of Cooling System Prototype for Mobile Anti-Missile Device

 
2003

 

NASA - Lidar instrument enclosure and climate control system

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Introduction of Micro HPS and IBEX award for innovation

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Introduction of OSSA Powerlite high-voltage, diesel powered generator and propulsion concept

 

2004

 

University of Alabama/NASA - International Space Station Cryo-Cooler

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Introduction of dcBreeze, DC air-conditioning system
 
 
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