The origin of CRT:

1937 Originally started as a part of Cambridge University, before World War 2 as: "The Low Temperature Research Station".

1945 Changed name to become: "The Refrigerated Cargo Research Council". Had offices in Falcon's yard in central Cambridge, now Lion Yard shopping centre.

1962 Changed name again to become a member-based research association called "Shipowners Refrigerated Cargo Research Association" (SRCRA). Moved to custom-built premises in Newmarket Road.

1966 Built our first environmental chamber for testing 20-foot containers: Test chamber 1.

1975 Built our second environmental chamber test chamber 2 for testing 40-foot containers and 13.6m trailers.

1993 Became "Cambridge Refrigeration Technology" as the trading arm of SRCRA.

1999 Refrigerated Transport Information Service founded

2001 Became Cambridge Refrigeration Technology Ltd trading as a contract-based research development and environmental test organisation with a subscription-based information service.

2003 International Cold Chain Technology founded

2005 Built a chamber for supermarket cabinet testing to EN 23953

2006 Became an entirely Independent R&D and environmental test company specialise in refrigeration and refrigerated transport.

2007 Built a custom training suite.

2009 Introduced IP testing as a service

2010 Purchased a vibration test rig for testing instrumentation particularly temperature recorders.

2013 Modified environmental test chamber 2 cooling system to allow low temperature testing for pharmaceutical transport.

2014 Constructed a larger IP dusk rig for testing telecommunications equipment.

2015 Built Test chamber 3 specifically for calorimeter testing of refrigerated transport units.

2017 Modified environmental test chamber 1 cooling system to also allow low temperature testing.

2019 Developed a lab with a suite of small chambers for instrumentation/products for high and low temperature and humidity.

2020 Installed a specialised lab for gas chromatography for testing ethylene gas at low levels and for analysing refrigerants.

2024 Extended environmental test chamber 1 to accommodate 40-foot refrigerated containers.