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Glacier Bay, Inc. engineers and manufactures high-performance thermal management and energy control systems for marine, transportation, aerospace, military, medical, electronics and communications applications.
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| 1990 |
Glacier Bay introduces the world's 1st refrigerator using non-ozone depleting HFC-134a. |
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1992 |
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U.S. patent granted on the Arctic Air system which provides refrigeration, freezing and air conditioning capacity from a single compressor. |
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1993 |
U.S. Patent granted on revolutionary "Spider Coil" evaporator for thermal storage holding plates. |
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| 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
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1995 |
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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. |
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| 1996 |
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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 |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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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. |
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