Bill Imfeld, his wife Margaret, and business partner Paul Cloutier form Imfeld Cloutier (I.C.) Refrigeration which focused on dairy refrigeration and mechanical operations. Paul would only remain with the company for 2 years before moving out of town and leaving the new business in the hands of Bill, Margaret, and new baby son Dick; all with WWII looming over their shoulders. Fortunately, refrigeration was an essential service locally and IC continued to grow as a business.

Dick has now returned from school and begins integrating himself into the business. After two years of working different roles in the company, Father, Bill falls ill and is hospitalized from a collapsed lung in 1963. At this point, Dick steps in to assume full control of the company for the next 20 years.

Rich joins the IC team as a 3rd generation and the business continues to grow and eventually specializing in more commercial HVAC while beginning design/build work for more businesses and less residential contracting, aside from luxury homes and unit changeouts.

Kevin began working in the field and one day while taking a lunch break on a job-site, he was talking with a plumber Jesse Rogers, who owned Thrifty Plumbing and discovered that Don Baker, of Baker Construction, was looking for a company to do numerous work and projects for McDonald’s in Northern California. Kevin took Don Baker up on his challenge and started doing night work in McDonald’s to convert the kitchen layout to a more efficient system of keeping the food warm. That job led to handling new kitchen installations for McDonalds throughout Northern California with the first location located in Livingston, California for Owner/Operator Dennis Grasspointer. Continued work for McDonald’s helped IC create a Specialty Sheet Metals Department, now called Restaurant Division. This department of now 15 employees became a pivotal building block that now encompasses ½ of IC’s total business.

Coming out of one of the worst recessions in many years, Kevin decides to add to the diversity of the company by creating the Fire Protection Department. IC Refrigeration’s service offerings would be expanded to include: Commercial quarterly hood cleanings, fire sprinklers, fire extinguishers, and fixed fire systems for restaurants. By the end of 2020, this department would grow to 16 employees servicing over 900 locations throughout Northern California. This department currently has 24 employees and services over 1,000 locations. 

In January of 2019 the sale was completed from Rich’s portion of the company and a new management team was formed under Kevin Silva to lead the company in its growth, which included the addition of a 5000 sqft warehouse that would be completed November 2020.

On April 1st 2022, Dick Imfeld retires and sells the rest of his shares to Kevin Silva, making Kevin the sole owner of IC Refrigeration.