Company founded
1974
HCR Inc. was founded in 1974 by George R. Smith, P.E., a refrigeration engineer for over 40 years, and a highly respected member of ASHRAE (author of "Refrigeration Loads" in the 1994 ASHRAE handbook), member of IIAR, IARW, Chairman of the monitoring committee for ASHRAE-sponsored research into the frosting and defrosting of evaporator coils, and probably the world's foremost expert in air infiltration into freezers and coolers.