Crytec Ltd. Was established in 1999. Based on the proprietary technology of its founder, Crytec developed a new slurry ice making method, whereby slurry ice is produced inside "tube-in-tube" crystallizer and not on the wall of the crystallizers the way it is usually done. The liquid ice is formed inside the volume of the cooling medium, for which seawater, fruit juice, alcohol, salted water, or water with other additives can be used. This new, patented process is called "volumetric crystallization by cooling". This process is possible by using a high precision crystallizer, injecting air or gas (O3 for example), and precisely managing the temperatures, pressures and flow rates at different points throughout the refrigerant and cooling medium locations.
USA Patent #6305189 "Method and Installation for Continuous Crystallization of Liquids by Freezing" was issued in August 2000. Patent applications were filed in Europe, Russia, Brazil, Australia, Japan and China in April 2003. The CE mark for the European Community was obtained in March 2002.
In March 2010Crytec moved to a new manufacturing facility in Beer jerusalem, Israel, where it combines its continuing R&D program with the production of three standard models of Crytec Bubble Slurry Ice machines.